Loftie Clock

For the feeds at three in the morning.

The phone is the worst thing on a nightstand in the first year. It is the alarm, the clock, the light she checks the time with at two and again at four, and the thing that wakes her more thoroughly than the baby did. This replaces all of it. A nightlight soft enough to feed by and not bright enough to wake either of them, a display that goes fully black, and a hundred sleep sounds that do not need the phone at all.

WHAT IT DOES

A two-phase alarm, a soft sound first and a fuller one minutes later, so waking is gradual rather than sudden

An adjustable nightlight, warm, for the middle of the night

Over a hundred sleep sounds and white noise tracks, no subscription

Blackout mode, with no light leak at all

A five-hour backup battery, and a mode that works without wifi

WHY WE CHOSE IT

Because the advice everyone gives a new mother is to sleep when the baby sleeps, and nobody mentions that the phone on the nightstand is the reason she cannot. This is the object that lets it leave the room.

DETAILS

Six and a half inches wide. Sets up through an app, then runs on its own. Ships with a cloth-wrapped cable and plug. It is not a sunrise lamp; the light is for finding your way, not for waking.