Owlet Feedback!?

[onesweetworld]

Does anyone have any feedback on the owlet? Or any of the similar monitors ?

I know we have a lot of grad traffic and STMs - thank you ladies, I don't know what we'd do without you!

[Deleted]

I believe nerdykitten had experience.

After I had to give Ridley cpr because she stopped breathing I asked a ton of people and did a lot of research but ultimately decided it wasn't worth it. Mostly because of the stress of the alarm that goes off to notify you that it's not getting a good reading.

[hpnegirl]

We have one of the angelcare monitors. I looked into an owlet when they first came out and decided it wasn't worth it.

Honestly, we never used the movement monitor of our angelcare, just the sound portion. If we didn't have a baby that was up like clockwork, we probably would have used the movement monitor, but we'd sneak in and check on him if he didn't wake at his normal intervals

[teraiin]

I looked into owlet (and others) monitors and decided the stress of false alarms wasn't worth it. Honestly though it might have been different had I not been under doctors orders to wake ds every three hours for nursing. If he didn't wake up in between then I'd still be checking frequently.

[nerdykitten]

So Owlet has been betaing a new version that is supposed to be vastly improved. My experience was great on Damian until he starting rolling over in his crib, which meant more not reading properly alarms. It became a complete cluster with multiple owlets running to the point I basically stopped using it, even after owlet support fixed the syncing to the wrong base issue for us. They are working on a multiples model to fix that issue. Also if your kid has really tiny feet they will get the marks you are warned about if you want a fit that won't set off the alarm until their feet get a bit bigger, which cuts down on wear time. Their tech support is amazing though and I was happy using it with Damian while the girls were on the actual medical monitors as he was the most likely to spitup in his sleep and it did save his life once. I think it is completely up to you if you want to go that route, but it is possible another monitoring system may work just as well that is cheaper.

[teraiin]

nerdykitten I didn't realize it saved Damian's life, I'm glad you had it!

[onesweetworld]

Mar 27, 2017 19:05:28 GMT -5 @led said:

I believe nerdykitten had experience.

After I had to give Ridley cpr because she stopped breathing I asked a ton of people and did a lot of research but ultimately decided it wasn't worth it. Mostly because of the stress of the alarm that goes off to notify you that it's not getting a good reading.

I'm so sorry that happened to you. How scary!!!

[onesweetworld]

Glad to hear that it saved Damien's life nerdykitten! You are one amazing momma!!!

[juliayadda]

Surprisingly (not surprisingly) these didn't exist when E was a baby. I won't be getting one this time either.

For the first five months he slept in the same room/bed as me and I was in light sleep mode through this time. When he transferred to crib I had a regular sound monitor. When he was sleeping I would sneak in and hold my hand over his face to feel his breath. I did that a lot FFTC.

That being said I know at least three mamas that wouldn't have slept in their baby's first year due to anxiety if they hadn't had the snooza or whatever it is called.

[requiressnacks]

Hi!! I didn't get one, so I have no first-hand experience. However, we did discuss the Owlet pretty extensively at one of my Moms of Multiples meetings and the general consensus was that the false alarms made it more annoying than helpful.

However, there were a couple moms with really high anxiety who really liked their Owlets, mainly to soothe their fears. They didn't mind the false alarms.

[peaseblossom55]

I was very anxious about this issue given my loss history and with E being in the NICU. When we spoke with the doctors in the NICU they said not to bother with one. They tend to give a lot of false alarms and those type of products play to a first time mom's fears. They also said they would not have sent E home with us if there was a chance of a brady episode.

[agm04]

we have two of the snuza monitors, neither of which got used with DD1. i'm not sure if i'll use it this time. potentially, since i hope to have this baby sleeping on her own a bit earlier (entirely for my sanity).