If the bassinet is not swinging it can still be swayed by the baby's movement. I couldn't quite swing that his new price but this bassinet has far exceeded every expectation I had for it right now three-month-old still sleeps through the night and whenever she starts to fuss or make a peepThe sound cents text kicks right on and this soothes her right back to sleep. My baby loves to be rocked and that’s how she goes to sleep but the clicking noise is so loud that it wakes up my baby and we have to pick her up constantly.