Owlet & Deep Sleep Concerns

We have the Owlet as well! I don’t put too much into the deep sleep because anything triggers it for her being “awake” I have a very squirmy baby and she’ll be active sleeping and it’ll say she’s awake. It causes her to say she has 5-8 wakes a night in a 5 hour period but she doesn’t. I also got a notification that deep sleep isn’t as common for newborns / younger babies.. let me see if I can find it

I’ll need to wait until it’s on her but I’ll post a screenshot later.. here’s a reddit link with others saying the same thing: https://www.reddit.com/r/newborns/s/wBlsrwLBLd Not a professional but I’ve learned not to take too much stock in it. I agree with one comment - it’ll say my baby is in light sleep and she’s very clearly awake

I wish I could provide insight, but I struggle to even use the sock 🤦🏻‍♀️ I’d like to know how you don’t get abruptly awoken multiple times a night out of a deep sleep from notifications that the sock isn’t on correctly 😅 I finally gave up and got tired of after trying time and time again

The Owlet it was recalled at one because the data was so unreliable. I forget the details. I never got one because I saw so many people talk about how it often just increased anxiety with either false alarms or not staying on well and giving a false sense of security, followed by anxiety. I think it's a thing that is kind of a nice bonus for some extra information in general, but don't read too much into the details. Most people at this stage are just hoping babies sleep for any decent amount of time. I doubt there's enough data to say whether the amount of different types of sleep is normal or sufficient.

@Audrey I can agree to this.. my babies sock was too loose - not loose enough to trigger the sound but it had wiggled off slightly and read her oxygen was at 90-91% for about an hour. I made my husband come home from work because I spiraled so hard (she was like 4 weeks old) and when I went to change her diaper, noticed the strap had slipped off.. her stats weren’t actually that low. It’s a habit now for us after bath time, but I’m an anxious person so having one extra thing to help monitor eases my anxiety *a little* I mean she’ll sleep from 9:30pm-3:30am with a dream feed at 11pm and I sleep from 1-3:30am with 2-3 wakes to check if she’s breathing so i don’t sleep much anyways.

@Courtney I had multiple oxygen false alarms during breast feeding sessions too that caused me to spiral! But my pediatrician assured me she’s fine and that some babies forget to breathe while feeding. And it could’ve also been that she was lying weird on her leg during the feeding and oxygen wasn’t getting to her food properly, which also isn’t uncommon or super bad for a short time like a feeding session. Then he basically told me to throw the thing in the garbage haha. He’s like “I’ve never liked these kinds of devices because they cause unnecessary anxiety and false alarms.”

@Courtney oh no! Glad she was actually ok though! That's why I ended up not getting it, my anxiety is bad enough already and felt like in my case it might just make it worse. This is my third and I still sometimes lay my hand on his chest to make sure he's breathing and there's that moment of holding my breath and pushing away the worst case scenario thoughts.

This makes me feel better because we constantly get told that we sleep poorly and have less total time and less deep sleep and more wake ups.

From all the pediatricians I’ve spoken to (baby girl was hospitalized for low O2 levels at 2 weeks old) deep sleep can be a contributor to SIDS and is not super common for newborns