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amnio mat alarms been going off

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kreamkrackers · 16/01/2006 17:12

i put this in the special needs board but nobody has wrote on it. dd is 20 months and has a very complex cardiac condition. she has an amnio mat (alarms if doesn't detect breathing for 20 seconds) underneath her for when she's asleep and the alarm sounded once when she was newborn. however, since christmas it has started going off twice a week. we put the sensitivity up as she's now moving about in her cotbed and we thought the problem might be to do with that. today the alarm sounded and i went in, she was still in the middle of the cotbed where the mat is. i lifted the matress to check it hadn't moved and it hadn't. i've made a doctors appointment for wednesday but i'm worried. we next see cardiac consultant on 3rd feb and we haven't seen him since mid oct (apart from when we go in hospital with chest infections), which happens to be the longest we've not seen him for. maybe i'm over reacting, does anybody else have one of these mats? if so does it ever go off for you? i don't think there's a fault with the mat as it detects her breathing most of the time.

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Trophywife · 16/01/2006 17:17

dont know if its the same, but we had an Angle Care monitor for ds, and we found it would go off for no reason and the only things to do is to put the sensitivity up as you have done. If i were you i would put it up a bit more and see what happens. HTH

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CountessDracula · 16/01/2006 17:18

I really would call your specialist asap and tell him/her about this, just to be on the safe side.

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CountessDracula · 16/01/2006 17:18

it all sounds very stressful, poor you

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kreamkrackers · 16/01/2006 20:48

called hv and she didn't seem too concerned but will try to phone hospital and see what the cardiac consultant or cardiac liason nurse has to say. anyone else got anything to say or suggest that might help?

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anniebear · 16/01/2006 21:15

I'm sorry, I am a regular on the SN section and I didn't see your post

I wouldn't have any advice but would have posted to let you know it had been read

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kreamkrackers · 16/01/2006 21:47

asked dp for the name of the dector mat before posting this as i couldn't remember what it was called, it's not amnio but apnoea! i'm so stupid. heard him wrong. anyways anyone else got expeience of this?