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The Baby-Sleep Industrial Complex

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Society & Culture, Business, News

3.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The tech-laden, luxury bassinet “Snoo” has been presented as preventing Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, helping babies sleep longer, and a totally reasonable way to spend $1,700. Is any of that true?


Guest: Kate Taylor, senior features correspondent for Business Insider

John Collins, Lizzie’s husband.


Host: Lizzie O’Leary


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0:00.0

This episode is brought to you by Tinder.

0:04.0

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0:06.0

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0:10.0

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0:14.0

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0:18.0

or maybe it's not that serious.

0:20.0

Whether a match leads to something new and exciting or something personal,

0:24.0

no matter what, all matches lead to self-discovery.

0:27.0

Download Tinder now.

0:30.0

Why don't you introduce yourself?

0:36.0

I'm John Collins. I'm your husband.

0:39.0

Yes, I know. I'm interviewing my husband.

0:48.0

But stick with me here.

0:50.0

What is your first reaction when I say the words new?

0:56.0

Well, my shoulders tense a little bit. That was my first reaction.

1:02.0

But that is a word that, you know, that defined a period of my life.

1:12.0

For the uninitiated, the snoo is a mechanized bassinet, you know, for infants.

1:18.0

And it costs $1,700 if you buy it outright.

1:22.0

The company that makes this new, happiest baby, called it a smart sleeper.

1:27.0

And it's claimed to fame is that it automatically responds to your baby's fussing.

1:32.0

It does that with white noise and with rocking, movement that is triggered by your child's cries.

1:39.0

It also funnels data into an app for you to obsess over if that's your thing.

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