As a new mother, I find myself constantly barraged by the introduction of new products being marketed at my plethora of anxieties and insecurities. While some are obviously unnecessary, others, like the BebeSounds Angelcare Monitor, warrant further investigation.
When I first brought my daughter home from the hospital, I was getting no sleep. Even on the rare occasion when she was asleep, I was still wide awake, watching her every movement, terrified that at any second she might stop breathing. While I’d love to tell you that my fears were assuaged after her first few nights at home, that would be a bold-faced lie. Instead, weeks went by, and while she slept for increasing amounts of time, I still lie awake at night, eyes bloodshot from utter exhaustion.
Enter the Angelcare baby monitor. Unlike your run of the mill baby monitor, the Angelcare monitor monitors both sound AND movement, detecting even the slightest movement as your baby sleeps. If for any reason the monitor does not pick up movement for longer than twenty seconds, an alarm sounds, alerting the parent(s) to this fact.
I was quite skeptical. I figured there was absolutely no way that my daughter moved so often that it would consistently pick up enough movement to not set the alarm off several times per night. Boy, was I wrong. After our first night with the Angelcare monitor, I was sold. My daughter was a mere three weeks old, and slept a solid five hours that night, and for the first time since before she was born, I did too. When I picked her up to nurse her in the middle of the night, I forgot to turn the monitor off and, like clockwork, the monitor sounded, alerting me to what would’ve been a potential problem had she been in the crib.
Since then, she’s slept with the monitor underneath her mattress every single night. We’ve had a couple of false alarms where she’s rolled so far to the side that the sensor had been unable to pick up her movements, but you know what? I sleep far more soundly knowing that it’s too sensitive, as opposed to the chance that we might not be alerted to a potentially catastrophic situation.
By Bri Taylor ( this link take you too the site where this article was found)
