and whoever invented the Swing-o-Matic should be canonized.

damn, w/o that baby swing, either i would have fewer kids, or i would be dead or in prison.

In the mid-1980s, a desperate, sleep deprived new dad invented a device that would attach to a crib to simulate the vibrations of a car at 50 mph. I can't remember the name of it, but it sold quite well. Some parents paid for overnight shipping.

I used to tell parents about it at the peds office where I was working at the time.

a railroad sleeper car. I can get the sound, but the motion of a train is very unique.

Best sleep I ever get is on a train.

worked to get them to sleep. That was fifty years ago, but it worked then as well as now.

and I was too tired to drive and drive!

By the way, there weren't many "real" carseats back then.

We even got to the point where my wife would have the door open so that she wouldn't hear it creak.
Still didn't work. Somehow our daughter knew it was time to wake up the moment we got home.

We switched to watching TV in the dark. That was somewhat successful.

There's NO COMPARISON between todays and those many years ago. Safety sure has been improved!

BTW, My youngest boy did the wake-up trick when we got home too. Not all that often, but it sure was disappointing when he did.

It reminds the baby of the sounds and movement of their mother's womb.

car rides to put my daughter to sleep. I was always able to get her to bed without her waking up.
The next day however I'd barely be able to keep my eyes open.

My mom told me that many a night in the dead of winter, my dad would have to go and start up the car, scrape the snow and ice off the car windows and shovel out the driveway while she bundled me up so they could take me for a short ride in the car on the unplowed road.

I wouldn't even have to put her in the car.