Review: SnoozeShade for Infant Car Seat

I received a Snooze shade for a car seat from @SnoozeShade to test and review. It arrived last Friday but I didn’t have the opportunity to try it until today.

Taken from the Website:

SnoozeShade for Infant Car Seats can help if:
• Your baby needs to switch off from outside distraction
• You would like to encourage good sleeping habits and better napping when baby is out
• You have older children whose schedules conflict with new baby’s naptime
• You prefer other people not to disturb your sleeping baby

It’s the simpler, safer, lightweight and secure alternative to draping blankets, muslins or other items over an infant car seat – and it’s great for holidays, in restaurants or anytime you have to go out during baby’s naptime.

SnoozeShade for Infant Car Seats:
• is made from a double layer of soft dark breathable fabric which blocks 94% of light
• in full sleep mode, cuts out visual stimuli to help babies get the sleep they need
• makes transporting baby from car to pram or pram to indoors easy
• can be used to provide extra shade when in hood-extender mode
• provides a shady and well-ventilated sleep environment
• has elasticated top and sides with easy-to-attach Velcro straps to ensure SnoozeShade fits easily to most popular infant carriers with upright rigid handles
• enables you to check quietly and easily on baby via SnoozeShade’s 'sneak-a-peek' front access
• is compact enough to keep with you at all times; it folds into a small drawstring bag to pop into your change bag, handbag, hang off travel system’s handles or store in your travel system’s basket
• protects babies from the sun with the highest sun protection – UPF50+



I was taking my oldest to soft play this morning to meet a friend and we were due to arrive right about the time I would normally be trying to put baby down for his nap. So I popped the shade in my bag and off we went. By the time we arrived he was fast asleep as I expected, so I slipped the snooze shade onto our Graco car seat. I was impressed at how quick and easy it was to do, literally just slips over the frame of the seat and then Velcros to the handles. I got into the building, placed him down on the floor to pay and ‘bang’ he was awake. So nap time failed, I didn’t for one second put that down to the product, more to a fault with my baby. (He doesn’t do sleep – his naps are rarely longer than 20 minutes).

I was talking to my friend about it, and we both agreed it’d work brilliantly for a smaller baby. She is due her second in October and I have said I will pass it over to her, as it won’t be much longer before we have to switch to the next stage car seat.

Baby was shattered by the time we left and fell asleep on the two minute drive home, so I figured I had nothing to lose in trying again. So on the shade went and we made it in to the house, set him down on the floor (the point he normally wakes) and by some miracle he stayed asleep. I felt like rejoicing, but I was anticipating him waking up quite quickly. So when half an hour later he woke I felt like dancing for joy around the house.
This product gets a big thumbs up from me, it definitely works. Even as a small baby we struggled to move from car to house without waking him. He was a winter baby so the drastic change in temperature woke him. I wish I’d discovered the snoozeshade a long time ago; it would have made my life a whole lot easier and prevented baby from being disturbed.

Baby sleeping in his car seat

The snoozeshade comes in a small mess bag, and it’s the perfect size to pop in your changing bag/handbag and take out with you. There is a small peep hole on the front, so you can open and take a look at baby to check they are still okay, I didn’t actually dare to open the zip as I feared the noise might wake the baby and knowing mine it probably would have.

If I ever have another it’s definitely something I will be using often.