yeah I was able to make it work, though we found that our daughter absolutely hated the automated rocking of the Snoo and there wasn't any automatic gentle setting. Pretty perplexing actually, it only had four levels and you could either set it to always rock at whatever level you want, or react to crying etc. and rock then, but with a minimum level of 2/4. Even that was too much and she just hated it.

We used the snoo passively, and the swaddle strap-down feature was actually a pretty nice setup that other basinnets could and should use, without any electronics at all. The swaddles used with the snoo strap down to the base and prevent the baby from rolling around. This passive feature was pretty nice, but not really the purpose of the device.