Owlet experiences - accurate?

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Hi,

My 8 month old has been admitted to hospital roughly every 6 weeks since birth with breathing difficulties and low oxygen saturations. Usually put down to a virus but we are pushing for further investigations.

During one of these episodes he stopped breathing, thankfully I was sat awake watching him and obviously we gave emergency first aid and called an ambulance and he was admitted to hospital without any lasting issues.

During this admission, one of the nurses suggested a breathing monitor and recommended a snuza hero, which we now have. The day he stopped breathing he had a very mild runny nose that I had barely noticed but no other symptoms.

We were back in for 5 days this week and another nurse suggested getting an oxygen saturation monitor so we can keep an eye when he is poorly and get him into hospital as soon as his oxygen starts getting low.
Is it worth getting rid of the Snuza and buying an owlet instead or shall we keep
the snuza and just buy a separate sats monitor?

Obviously the owlet will give constant data but I am worried that it will increase my, already increasing, anxiety and at 8 months, being very wriggly, it won’t stay on very well and will have been a waste of money. I’m also unsure if hospital will take the data from the owlet seriously?

Has anyone used one for an older baby and into toddlerhood, and is it as accurate as intermittently checking with a proper sats monitor.

Thank you if you’ve read this far!

We used a owlet with DD1 till she was about 18 months. We never had any false alarms - if it comes off it plays a different alarm to the low oxygen one anyway, a much less scary on! We weren't using it for medical reasons like you would be but the peace of mind it gave me was huge. In your shoes I absolutely would do it given the history.

That said, I don't know how clinical the data is. The website does have testimonials from some people who have been alerted that their child had a problem by the sock in the first instance, and I would hope that if a child's sats dropped low enough to set it off when they have a history of that in the first place it would be taken seriously. I doubt it's an accurate as a medical grade o2 monitor, but a lot more practical for a sleeping baby and toddler. The new one goes up to age 4 I think.

We used an owlet for the first year and it was brilliant. We never got an emergency alarm thankfully - occasionally it would slip off but a gentle tone would play so nothing to get anxious about. Unfortunately once we did have to call an ambulance when the baby got croup and the paramedics' readings exactly matched the readings the owlet had taken which was really reassuring! I've never heard of the Snuza though.

I e used an owlet since mine was born she's 18 weeks now it does tend to go off. It it's not an alert where you think they have stop breathing it plays a little song because it
Can't get a reading a lot of the time it's due to the sick needing to be cleaned the error says it's a placement issue I just turn it off and back on again it is annoying but I like being able to sleep knowing she has it on so I guess it's up to you if you could cope with that error knowing that you can differentiate between that and something actually being wrong . I only had a "red" alarm on it once she had a high temp after her vaccinations and her heart rate got really high o went straight to the hospital as her temp kept spiking and could t give anymore calpol hospital weren't a bit interested in the heart rate but I got the fright of my life