The Rest has a cylindrical shape, wider on the bottom than on top, and measures 4 x 4 x 6.2 inches.
It worked too - because we were able to recreate part of their nightly schedule with the Rest, they slept well despite some tense and uncertain days in an unfamiliar place. How indispensable? When my family was recently evacuated from our home because of a forest fire, the Rest was one of the things I made sure to pack so I could make wherever we landed feel more like home for the kids. I’ve been using the Rest nightly for the past few months and can say without reservation that it has become an indispensable part of my baby set-up. This meant my “mistake” in ordering it turned out to be kismet because it served several of my needs in one device: I have a warm, bright light to see by when I’m changing diapers or feeding babies after dark, a quality white noise machine with several clear sound options to get the kids to doze off and a backup alarm to help wake me after I turn off my alarm and go back to sleep (a fairly common occurrence). Instead, what arrived was a device that relied on AC wall power, but it would also act as a night light, white noise machine and backup alarm all in one. When I bought it, I thought I was getting a touch activated night light that used battery power. To be entirely honest, I wasn’t really looking for the $60 Hatch Rest.