When doing my research while pregnant and nesting, every article and Youtube video I watched suggested that one essential item to get for baby, out of many, is a sound machine, and I didn’t realise until baby came how handy one would come in.

To be honest, I kind of ignored the videos and Instagram reels telling me to buy everything and more as I was trying not to buy too many things all at once in excitement for baby’s pending arrival, only to then later find that I won’t use them. But my mum encouraged us to get some sort of sound machine. So the quest to find a good one commenced. Actually, to be honest there was no such quest, because, due to their very good marketing, and having seen Ewan’s parent company Sweet Dreamers Ltd at the Baby Show at the Olympia London and Baby & Toddler Show at Sandown Park in lovely Surrey, and their largely accurate claims of being the best sound machine out there, and Ewan’s cute design , Ewan the Sheep was the only sound machine that I came across!

My only hunch was what colour I was going to get, sadly. It was either grey or beige and never, ever purple, their other colour choice available. Although, clearly, I do like purple, hence the colour scheme of this blog, but I don’t want to see a purple sheep glowing in my baby’s cot. As you can see from my photos, I got the beige one and I am very happy with this choice as it’s the warmer tone of the two, but is still a neutral colour. I also opted for the deluxe version which is priced at £39.99. The original Ewan The Sheep (priced at £29.99), has 4 sounds to choose from, has the red night light that you can view in pictures below, whereas the deluxe version has 5 sounds to choose from, a cry sensor (which was the best feature if you ask me), the red night light, and the outer sheep fabric doll that cases the internal device can be machine-washed, washable at 30 degrees Celsius. Also both versions have a velco tail/ strap that you can use to attach Ewan to baby’s cot, basinet and/or buggy.

Ewan The Sheep has won so many awards year on year for helping parents get a decent night’s sleep and helping baby to get used to sleeping through the night, except when they really need to wake for a feed. And I can say it has help me sleep, but not all the time… Babies will be babies!

There was one night where I noticeably realised it was working, and that was when we activated the cry sensor. You do this by pressing and holding down the button on the device that is velcro’d shut inside Ewan’s mid region. Once you press and hold, you’ll hear a distinctive “bleep” sound that lets you know that it’s now going to listen out for baby’s cries. This also means that you don’t need to get up from your bed every time baby whimpers or half-cries in their sleep, as it’ll activate itself and hopefully send baby back to a peaceful sleep. I like the fact that the deluxe version is in a way like a hand’s free sound machine. You just turn it on once and let it do it’s work. It will listen out for 4 hours before you have to manually activate this feature again. Sometimes I found if I or baby’s dad moved in our bedroom at night, even to check on baby while she was in her cot, she’d fully wake up, (we have a light sleeper) and the process to get her back to sleep was relentless, so not having to get up really helped us if we didn’t have to. Obviously, we’d still be checking on her to see if she’s okay but we were able to do this from laying down on our bed as our room set-up meant that we could see baby from our bed, thankfully. Don’t get us wrong, we were still sleep deprived, but I could see that without mum’s push and not purchasing Ewan, we’d be really struggling getting any sleep at all. That night in particular, baby cried, Ewan was activated and then miraculously, she fell asleep as she heard Ewan in her sleep and this didn’t happen just the once. This happened two or three times that night. I can say I was pleased with my purchase that night. Also I must mention Ewan is most likely helping us when baby is just waking up because she wants comfort/ or to comfort feed, rather than a real feed, because if she was really hungry, she would wake up, Ewan or no Ewan.

What I will say though the sensor is good as it can distinguish a cry from other sounds, but if you decide to burst into song for whatever reason or speak in another voice different from the normal range of a talking voice, and it’s in cry-sensing mode, it will think you are the baby and turn on itself. To me this wasn’t a problem, but for some, this might be a pain-point with Ewan unfortunately.

The sound selection is good, all sounds mimic a mother’s heartbeat that baby would’ve heard in utero. Our favourite is the heartbeat and “harp” combo, which has that percussion punch to capture baby’s attention promptly (the heartbeat) and the harp which is melodious and calming, sending baby back to sleep after her midnight farts wakes her up.

If you read this in the future darling, sorry for exposing you lol.

I would recommend Ewan because it does the job, helping baby and Mum & Dad sleep at night. But also it works in the day time as a distraction for baby if and when she’s upset about something. When she’s in a cry-ey phase, we can switch on Ewan, and it can buy us a couple of minutes if we are lucky before we tend to her if we are in the middle of something. Truly I can say this toy/ sound machine has helped calm baby on command, and of has given us a little bit of control where babies would normally dictate to you what schedule your lives should take in that moment in time.

Design-wise, I love it! It looks good and really give the room luxe nursery vibes if you ask me.

I’d say it’s worth it. Click here to purchase from Amazon.

Afia 💜