The First Years Gentle Vibrations 3-in-1 Crib Soother

by The First Years

Product Features

• The only under-mattress vibration system designed for the crib
• Offers three features in one, including a gentle vibration to calm baby, soothing sounds and a crib light
• Vibration feature can be set to three speeds
• Control unit easily mounts on a crib rail or can simply stand alone

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 7 x 5 x 6 inches ; 1.4 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000CRFOWK
• UPC: 071463030941
• Item model number: Y3094
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #29,565 in Baby (See Top 100 in Baby)
  • #48 in Baby > Nursery Décor > Sleep Soothers
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (56 customer reviews)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

You can always use a little help soothing your baby off to sleep and you know vibration and sound often are the best tricks. This is the only under-mattress vibration system designed for the crib. This unique product offers three features in one, including a gentle vibration to calm baby, soothing sounds and a crib light. The vibration feature can be set to three speeds and there are six sounds to choose from. The control unit easily mounts on a crib rail or can simply stand alone, and the wire-free connection is a great safety feature.

Product Description

The First Years introduces the only in-crib, under-the-mattress vibration system. The 3-In-1 Gentle Soother comes with soothing sounds, vibration, a criblight, 6 audio options, 3 vibration speeds, a baby-activation mode and an auto shut-off. Control unit mounts on crib rail or stands alone. Uses a wire-free connection.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars It can be fixed!, February 11, 2008

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Hoosier Daddy (Indiana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The First Years Gentle Vibrations 3-in-1 Crib Soother (Baby Product)

This product isn't perfect, but we're glad we bought it. The sound effects aren't so hot, but that wasn't what we bought it for. Shortly after installing it, we found that it would stop on its' own, only to kick back on when moved or turned off/back on. I found that it's the little battery positioners that are separating the batteries.

Take the battery cover off and remove the batteries. Remove the five screws and open the unit. There isn't much to it. From the bottom, you can see where the battery positioners just clip in. Unclip and remove them. You'll find that the batteries vibrate in the unit now, but that was solved by a bit of fabric folded up and placed under the lid.

As far as the crappy antenna reception goes, you see the little orange (on mine) wire that curls around the outside of the case but is only connected on the one side? Strip the insulation off. That'll give you a few extra feet. You could probably pull it out and wrap it around the bed frame if you had to.

The sound effects are so-so. The quality on the digital recording is pretty bad. We have a Homedics soother with a little light show which we use and I highly recommend. Still, for fourty bucks less than comparable products, I'll keep it.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars READ if you want to FIX this thing - its nice when it works, April 14, 2008

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Edgar E. Cayce (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The First Years Gentle Vibrations 3-in-1 Crib Soother (Baby Product)

I needed a crib vibrator, and after looking, I could not find much else like this product. I read the reviews and saw that people had mixed results with getting it to work, but I took a chance and ordered it.

Sure enough, when I hooked it up, our baby monitor interfered with the signal. When the monitor was on, the vibrator would only work when 2-3 feet from the base, and would stop if you moved it around. With the monitor off, it worked within 15 feet or so.

Changing the channel on the monitor made no difference. Neither did taking one reviewer's advice to strip the wire antenna on the receiver.

So, here is what I did - I converted it from "wireless" to "wired". It worked like a charm and no more interference. Drawback is now there is a wire between the two units.

READ ON if you want to know how to do it:

1) Get a long piece of thin wire. I used some narrow gauge speaker wire that I had around. It needs to be the length you want to put the two units apart, with some extra to make life easier. You only need one of the two strands. Strip about an inch off of the ends.

2) Take the covers off of the units using a small screwdriver. Take out the batteries!

3) On the base, you will see a long rod with wire coiled around it. This is the transmitter. The wire is very fine and delicate but it connects to a thicker wire that attaches to a circuit board. Wrap one end of your stripped wire around this thicker wire, not the very thin wire, so you don't break it. Replace the cover on the base unit. If your wire is thin enough you can just have it stick out somewhere on the bottom of the crack, without making a hole or slot for it.

4) On the remote unit (the vibrator), you will see a long orange wire that is only connected at one end. This is the antenna. Strip the other, loose, end of it and twist your wire onto it. Replace the cover with the wire coming out the crack between the cover and the unit.

5) When you set up the crib, make sure to use wire ties or something like that to tie down the wire and keep it from being a tangling/choking hazard.

That is all there is to it! You will find that, with the two units wired together you get no interference and it works like a charm.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars vibration unit does not work well, September 28, 2006

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John D. Hoch - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The First Years Gentle Vibrations 3-in-1 Crib Soother (Baby Product)

We received this item as a gift at a baby shower. The first month it worked great. We loved the vibration feature. Now the wireless connection between the control module that sits on the side of the crib and the vibration module does not work unless they are within 2 to 3 inches of each other. (yes I have replaced the batteries X2). So this makes it completely impracticle to use now. I would have rated 4 to 5 stars but with this breakdown withing the 1st month I have to go with one star.