The Best Baby & Toddler Sleep Products
Sleep soundly, little one! Help your baby or toddler fall asleep faster and sleep more deeply. Discover the best cradle, rocker, crib, sleep music, and bedtime books.
Updated January 6, 2022
The Best Modern Bassinets & Bedside Sleepers
SNOO Smart Sleeper Baby Bassinet
This ultra-modern, minimalistic, and functionally advanced bedside crib helps your baby and you get more sleep by automatically rocking and playing soothing white noise. Both the motion and calming sound gradually increase to calm crying babies. The SNOO Smart Sleeper is designed for newborns through to 6-month old, and includes a smart app to log sleep and adjust motion, sound, and cry sensitivity.
HALO BassiNest Swivel Sleeper — Bedside Bassinet, Essential Series
Sleep close to your baby while maintaining a safe distance. The HALO BassiNest swivels and rotates 360 degrees so you can easily get in and out of bed. Position it close to you by tucking the legs under your bed-frame and adjusting the height to fit your sleeping position.
The Best Modern Cribs
Babyletto Lolly 3-in-1 Convertible Crib
Solid and slim wooden rods supply a minimalistic look and the freedom to easily see and be seen. Converts from a crib to a convertible and then to a toddler’s bed. The Babyletto Lolly 3-in-1 Convertible Crib comes in natural and white, natural and gray, and natural and black.
Babyletto Modo 3-in-1 Convertible Crib
Solid. Modern. Simple. It converts from a crib into a toddler bed for ages 18 months and 3 years (toddler bed rail included) and then into a daybed (simply remove the toddler rail). The Babyletto Modo 3-in-1 Convertible Crib comes in espresso wood, white and espresso, gray and white, and all white.
The Best Travel Crib
Lotus Travel Crib & Backpack
For on-the-go nap-time and overnight trips, we pick the Lotus Travel crib. It’s easy to pack up and carry; it’s comfortable and safe for your child to play or sleep in anytime and most everywhere.
The Best Modern Rocking Chairs
Giantex Accent Rocking Chair
Rock, glide, or simply sit and put your baby — or yourself! — to sleep while modernizing your nursery, bedroom, living room — any room in your home. Rock, roll, and swivel your way to a happier mom, dad, and newborn while keeping your décor stylish.
Nursery Works Sleepytime Rocker with Walnut Legs
Hello comfort and style: meet baby! Rock on a walnut wood base finish while relaxing into a cushioned seat and back (plus a pillow back), upholstered in faux leather or a soft fabric. Its minimal but sturdy back and arms supply support with contemporary styling. Comes in multiple colors and finishes.
Emerson Nursing Rocker and Bassinet
Side-by-side, you and your baby, rocker and its bassinet sidecar, an innovative yet remarkably convenient solution to an age old problem: help a newborn and mom (or dad) relax at the same time. Handsfree, you can rock him/her to sleep while enjoying a book or show. The fabric is a soft, breathable mesh. Bonus: it’s convertible to a one-person rocker.
The Best Bedtime Music, Sound, & Light Machines
Crib-side (and bedside) technology to ease babies and kids into a deep and peaceful sleep. Works on exhausted new moms and dads, too!
Skip Hop Moonlight & Melodies Nightlight Soother Owl
Project stars and the moon onto the ceiling, play melodies and nature sounds, and use as a nightlight with the owl’s dimmable belly. Hits the right notes on aesthetics too, with its minimalistic, modern, and “adorable” design style.
Hatch Baby Rest Sound Machine, Night Light and Time-to-Rise
Discover multiple sleep and waking benefits rolled into one simple and modern nursery-friendly product. From the device or from your phone, customize (and save) hues, brightness, and sounds like white noise. Add a bedtime program to gently remind your child sleep time is soon. Set a time-to-rise so mom and dad can sleep in — or get working on the next sibling.
The Best Bedtime Books — Classic Stories & Modern Fables
Endearing classic and timeless stories, best of the traditional and the new. Nursery bookshelf essentials: universal themes with lovable characters.
Goodnight Moon
A sleep book for the imaginative
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
A hypnotically paced visual book with the simplest of stories, yet somehow dramatically compelling and calming
If Animals Kissed Goodnight
With soft-hued and comforting illustrations, this story about animal babies and their parents kissing goodnight hits the perfect “cute” note — while dodging the common saccharin sweet feel too commonly baked into kids books.