Would you use a free tool that checks if baby sleep advice is safe? (Looking for feedback)
Hi everyone — I'm a parent with an idea I want to get feedback on before doing anything with it, and I'd love to hear from other parents honestly.
With the recent BBC investigation into unqualified "sleep experts" giving dangerous advice to new parents — telling them to put babies on their fronts, or add rolled towels and muslins into cots — it got me thinking about how hard it is for exhausted new parents to know what advice to trust online.
The idea is simple: a free website where you paste in any baby sleep advice — a quote from Instagram, a line from a blog, something a sleep coach told you, or even a link to a post — and it instantly tells you whether that advice is backed by NHS and Lullaby Trust guidance, or whether it contradicts it. No jargon, no medical degree needed. Just a clear answer: safe, unsafe, or worth a second look — with a direct link to what the NHS actually says.
It's not meant to replace your health visitor, midwife, or GP. It's more like a quick sanity check for 2am when you're exhausted, you've just read something that doesn't feel quite right, and you don't have the headspace to go down a Google rabbit hole.
Who it's for:
- First-time parents overwhelmed by conflicting advice online
- Parents who've paid for sleep coaching and want to check what they've been told
- Anyone who follows parenting accounts on social media and occasionally wonders "is this actually safe?"
A few things I'd genuinely love to know:
- Would you have used something like this when your baby was newborn?
- Is there anything about this idea that worries you, or that you think could go wrong?
- Would you trust it more if it was partnered with a charity like the Lullaby Trust or Tommy's?
- Is there anything you'd want it to do that I haven't mentioned?
I'm at the very early stages — no website yet, just testing whether this is something real parents would actually find useful. Any feedback, honest or otherwise, is genuinely helpful. Thank you.
Posted May 12, 2026, 8:13 AM UTC