Okay, it's been a couple weeks. It (puresleep.com) will actually do the trick if his mouth stays with it and it's not completely out on the bed next to him. :-)
But he's learning and trying and for the most part the sound level, given 1 is lowest and 10 highest, has gone down to 3 sometimes 4, peppered in with "it's an earthquake" now and again. So really not that bad. It's a whole lot better than it was, that's for sure!
*Kat