Owlet baby monitor

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Hello Everyone,

I’m curious to hear your thoughts on the Baby Owlet Monitor. Has anyone used it? How reliable and accurate do you find it for monitoring your baby’s vital signs? Any pros or cons you’ve noticed?

Is there anything similar you’d recommend if not?

thanks x

Hello,

You might have already made your purchase but I did a deep dive on these monitors as I thought it would lessen my anxiety. The general consensus from people who had used them was that it gives so many false alarms that it will raise your anxiety!

At the same time, it has failed to notify in actual emergency situations with tragic consequences. The thing that calmed me a little was another reviewer saying, if your baby needs this kind of monitoring you will be sent home with hospital grade equipment to do so and that will be much more reliable.

The owlet is also not recommended by any agency (for safe sleep or paediatric medicine).

I have the owlet camera and it constantly disconnects and driving me mad already looking for a new one!

We used a similar monitor and it gave so many false alarms I stopped using it.

I think they fuel anxiety rather than solve it TBF.

DS2 has a lung condition. We have the owlet and haven't had any false alarms, and the real alarm we had was when he was having the same medication that made his stats drop in the hospital. We were used to oxygen monitors from NICU, so maybe we were more used to how to properly put it on? The latest one has been approved by the FDA I believe.

Personally I think it's better for trends - we can see when DS2's oxygen stats are a bit lower when he's ill, and it was one thing that led to us taking him to A&E, which proved to be the right call in that instance (and the oxygen readings were the same when taken at the hospital). I wouldn't rely on it to alert to an emergency situation, but that wasn't why we bought it. I wouldn't have it if DS2 didn't have an underlying condition.

We have it and really have found it reassuring. It did give a false alarm but only when we hadn’t got used to putting it on properly so it wasn’t on tight enough.