This post has been sponsored by Owlet Baby Care – a device designed to alert. All opinions are 100% our own!
There’s nothing more jarring than the first few nights at home with a newborn, especially with your first baby. You cannot wait to leave the hospital with your tiny human, then when you actually get home… holy overwhelming, Batman. Sure, you attended all the classes on feeding, bathing, and car seat installation. But there was no class to prepare you for the worry and anxiety that come with ensuring a baby’s safety, especially in the middle of the night.
You follow all the safe-sleep techniques obsessively, but still wake up every few hours and rush to baby’s side to watch her little chest rise and fall. But new mamas and new mamas-to-be, now that Owlet Baby Care has entered the picture, this one-of-a-kind Smart Sock helps everyone get some much needed Zzzzs.
The Owlet is a tiny sock that fits on baby and monitors pulse oximetry, which is heart rate and oxygen. The monitor is designed to alert you with flashing lights and an audible alarm if heart rate or oxygen fall outside of range. The Smart Sock communicates to a Base Station, and then to your smart phone so you can see live vitals right inside the free Owlet app anytime, anywhere! Bonus: could the Smart Sock be any cuter??
Added bonus: The socks come in multiple sizes and fit under footie pajamas and even most regular baby socks, so it is seamless and unobtrusive.
In addition to the normal worries about a newborn, my daughter was diagnosed at birth with SVT (Supraventricular Tachycardia) when her heart rate soared to over 300 BPM. After a few days in the NICU and a medication regime to keep her heart rate in its normal rhythm, we took her home and we were on our own! We set timers for her medication and checked her heart rate at every diaper change, which as you know translates to almost every hour with a newborn. Although SVT isn’t typically serious, worry is a new parent’s middle name. We scoured the Internet for something to give us an added layer of vigilance and peace of mind and would have done anything to get our hands on the Owlet Baby Monitor! *Please note, the Owlet is not a medical device and should not be used in place of medical monitor.
I spent far too many sleepless nights glued to my video baby monitor, zooming constantly to check my daughter’s breathing. Or waking up in horror when Houdini had broken out of her swaddle and it was lying too close to her face, leaving me panicking that she could have suffocated.
Add the Owlet to your baby-gear must haves and get yourself another set of “eyes” in the nursery. Then go and get some much-needed sleep, Mama.
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Disclaimer: The Owlet Baby Monitor is a device that is designed to alert parents and parents are responsible for determining the next best course of action.
