Owlet… Yay or Nay?

Increases anxiety while giving false sense of security

Currently using it. We’ve had it since my daughter was born, she is now 15 months old. It’s good and bad. It was great when I was sleep training her in the beginning: helped with wake windows and keeping track of her sleep. Also when she has gotten sick/fever, I have been able to tell by her heart rate increasing while sleeping. On the other hand, definitely can be anxiety inducing when the sock isnt secure, readings are off or it alerts you. Will probably use it for the next baby - but only because we already have it and the camera installed in the nursery. I do have postpartum anxiety and my husband keeps the monitor on his side of the bed for my sake lol

We never bothered with our first baby but got one with our second as he stopped breathing twice.

Tbh we loved ours but we aren’t anxious people. We never checked his stats but it gave us peace of mind to sleep. If he stopped breathing or got into trouble it sounded the alarm which was on my bedside. Just having that made us both feel totally comfortable at night. Used it for a few months and put it away when he moved upstairs.

My man never wakes up through crying. He’s just a heavy sleeper and I have been such a light sleeper so that outlet does help me wake up a little bit less throughout the night there’s been times there’s been false readings from the outlet, not connecting whenever I put it on his foot and it telling me that the sensor is not placed correctly on the foot, but at the end of the day, even though I haven’t been using it as much right now because he sleeps right beside me I’m keeping it for later on because when he goes to a different room, I can have the sensor in my room and have the outlet on his foot when he’s in his crib

I really think it comes down to whether it will reassure you or make you more anxious. For us it was a no brainer because of some health factors, but if you’re going to be obsessively checking it it’s likely not the best fit. A good compromise might be one of the higher tech traditional baby video monitors with detection features

Not reliable waste of money

I’m a very anxious person but it’s so expensive so I think I’m getting a mattress monitor