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The 2024 Parents Kids' Sleep Awards
Published: August 8, 2024
Source: Parents 2024 Best Kids' Sleep Awards
Looking for a way to get a better night's sleep? These 31 products will help the whole family catch some zzz's.
Between night feedings, teething, potty training, and stuffy noses, it’s a wonder parents get any sleep at all! If raising kids has you running on fumes, you’re certainly not alone. Thankfully, there's a vast selection of products designed specifically to help children—and their worn-out parents—get some rest.
From cozy bassinets and swaddles to comfy toddler beds and handy sound machines, there’s a product for just about every stage of parenthood. To help save you some time (and sanity), our team of expert judges has narrowed down the best ones!
All of our 2024 Kids’ Sleep Awards winners are safe, dependable, innovative, and, most importantly, effective in helping your family sleep more soundly.
Winners: Best Baby Sleep Products
Best Wrap-around Swaddle: The Ollie World The Ollie
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The Ollie isn’t your typical swaddle: it’s designed to enhance your little one’s neuro-development and ease their transition to the outside world. The flexible fabric allows your baby to move and stretch freely while still feeling as snug as they were in the womb, and it can be used with both arms secured, one arm out, or both arms out.
Price: $59
How We Chose Our Winners
Every year, the Parents team makes it their mission to find the best sleep products on the market: for babies, toddlers, big kids, and their parents and caregivers (who probably need sleep more than most). After receiving more than 125 nominations and submissions, our team narrowed the final cut down to 31 winners, with each product being voted on based on a variety of factors, including comfort, safety, effectiveness, and reliability.
By the Numbers
- More than 125 products were submitted and/or nominated. These products were then reviewed by our editors.
- Once the list was narrowed down, dozens of entries were vetted by our judging panel, which included doctors, sleep experts, and (yes!) parents.
- The products were then ranked in their respective categories.
- 31 winners were chosen.
How Our Winners Made the Cut
- Met Rigorous Safety Standards. Each product needed to pass strict safety measures that aligned with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) safe sleep guidelines.
- Expert-Approved. All of our winners were carefully vetted by one of our judges or certified sleep experts.
- No Breaking the Bank. We aimed for the most reasonable prices without sacrificing quality and safety.
- In Your Corner. As a parent, you need products that support your sleep journey every step of the way, and we aimed to find winners that would have your back.
About Our Judges
Mona Amin, DO, is a pediatrician, mom, and creator of The New Mom’s Survival Guide. She works in private practice and, through her brand Pedsdoctalk, her goal is to provide relatable and easy-to-digest education for the modern parent regarding the health and wellness of their child.
Angela Holliday-Bell, MD, CCSH, is a pediatrician and clinical sleep health specialist who completed her three-year pediatric residency at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. She is the founder and CEO of The Solution is Sleep. She also wrote a book titled Sleeping on the Job: Proven Strategies to Optimize Your Workplace Performance and Personal Wellbeing Through Better Sleep.
Lola Sánchez Liste is a mother of two and the founder of Rockin’Blinks. She is also an infant and child sleep consultant, certified by the Family Sleep Institute. Over the past eight years she has helped hundreds of families to understand their children's sleep needs and how to establish healthy sleep habits, and through her brand, Rockin'Blinks, she advocates for children's sleep quality and makes sleep information more accessible for all.
Kimberly Zapata is the editor of Special Projects and Innovations at Parents. Her parenting, health, and wellness work has been published on numerous websites, including Health, Healthline, Parade, Washington Post, Huffington Post, Oprah, The Mighty, Mic, and Vice. She is also the founder of Greater Than: Illness, an organization dedicated to empowering teens and young adults struggling with mental illness, and a mother of two.