How does the Nucu Pad work?

The Nucu Pad helps the whole family sleep better – with advanced sleep monitoring and soothing. Here’s how the Nucu Pad works.

How the Nucu Pad can help your family

Soothing natural feelscapes (sound and vibrations) like rain
Real-time sleep tracking (activity and sleep stages)
Daily sleep summary for understanding how your little one is actually sleeping
Automatic sleep log for spotting patterns in sleep development

The Nucu Pad is available in select countries from the Nucu Shop.

What is the Nucu sleep pad for kids?

The Nucu Pad is a soothing sleeping pad for children – from newborns to older babies, toddlers and beyond.

The features you use with your kid changes as your baby grows.

The Nucu Pad creates a familiar feelscape of sounds and vibrations. The Nucu Pad is designed to support families especially in these moments:

Getting ready to sleep: When it’s time to sleep, the baby is soothed by the Nucu feelscapes which makes the transition to sleep easier for both the baby and the caregiver.
Staying asleep: Some phases of sleep are naturally lighter than others. If awakened by noise too early, the baby falls back asleep from brief awakenings with the help of the Nucu Pad.
Understanding sleep: The advanced sleep tracking gives parents a totally new view into their kid's sleep - with long-term trends and real-time sleep stages.

In a nutshell: Better sleep. Less stress. And more energy to focus on the good things.

Designed in Finland, the Nucu Pad was first piloted in the Oulu University Hospital NICU in 2016.

Could the Nucu Pad help my family?

The Nucu Pad could help you if you’re looking to:

Make bedtimes less stressful
Foster a sense of safety when you lay the baby down to sleep
Build and strengthen better sleep patterns as the baby grows

How does the Nucu Pad actually work?

The Nucu Pad is a multisensory baby pad for soothing and monitoring. It recreates the feelscape (sounds and vibrations) of the womb to soothe the baby and promote better sleep.

It also uses sensitive sensors in the pad to capture important metrics related so sleep: for example, sleep timing, sleep stages and the number of getups.

Soothing

Place the Nucu Pad under the baby mattress topper
Turn on the Nucu Pad and choose one of the built-in feelscapes (such as wombscape, or rain)
Adjust the feelscape based on the environment and the mattress
Lay the baby on the sleep surface with the Nucu Pad underneath

Monitoring

While the Nucu Pad is on, it automatically detects the baby and starts monitoring their sleep.

The surface of the first-generation Nucu Pad is built from Finnish birch. The gentle vibrotactile feelscapes are created by purpose-built electronics that resonate through the wood. When the baby is sleeping on the Nucu Pad, they feel the familiar womb-like sounds the same way they did in the womb – with more than one sense.

Is the Nucu Pad safe?

The Nucu Pad is a gentle and safe way to promote better sleep. It has been used in a pilot study in the University of Oulu NICU for several years – to help preemies as young as 6 months.

Built from natural materials, the Nucu Pad is a safe choice for babies and parents. Currently, the Nucu Pad is used in clinical studies to study the effect of multisensory stimulation on babies.

The Nucu Pad is not a medical device. It's not intended to diagnose or treat medical conditions or sleep problems.

What is the science behind the Nucu Pad?

Multisensory stimulation (MSS) especially in premature babies has been found to aid in:

reducing stress¹
enhancing development²
improving weight gain³

The Nucu Pad has been used in studies with the University Hospital of Oulu NICU. It’s also being used by families at home through Finnish Children’s Health Clinics.

Where can I get the Nucu Pad?

Nucu is on a journey towards more togetherness. The Nucu Pad is available from the Nucu Shop in select countries.

Sources and references:

1: Sensory Stimulation in the NICU Environment: Devices, Systems, and Procedures to Protect and Stimulate Premature Babies, 2021, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8146433

2: The Importance of Rhythmic Stimulation for Preterm Infants in the NICU, 2021, https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9067/8/8/660

3: The effect of multisensory stimulation on weight gain in premature infants admitted to the intensive care unit: A clinical trial study, 2021, https://rjn.com.ro/articles/2021.1/RJN_2021_1_Art-13.pdf