Posts Tagged ‘baby’

The best gadgets and apps to lull a baby to sleep

The best gadgets and apps to lull a baby to sleep

If you have a baby that sleeps well you are in the lucky minority. But for the unlucky majority, a baby’s frequent waking leads to sleep serious depravation and leaves parents feeling utterly knackered. Today’s technology and gadgets have a gift of acting as a miraculous Godsend rather than just a mere gadget. If you are at the end of your tether then glance through the following ‘baby soothing’ gadgets…

Health gadgets and apps roundup

Health gadgets and apps roundup

How am I feeling? Just ask my phone! More than three million doctors have downloaded an iPhone app that was developed as nothing more than a toy. The iStethoscope allows iPhone users to hold their smartphone against their chest, so that the inbuilt microphone can record their heartbeat. By shaking the device, the user will then see a phonocardiograph display and spectrogram, which can be emailed to a specialist. The…

Yoomi self-warming baby feeding bottle

Yoomi self-warming baby feeding bottle

It’s 4.30am and you’ve been woken for the fourth time tonight. You can’t remember the last time you slept for a full eight hours and at this exact point in time you’d consider selling your first born in exchange for a decent night’s kip. The result of all your sleep deprivation has turned your brain to mush, and even the simplest tasks feel more akin to trying to fix the…