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Angelcare baby monitors

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Thegirlhasnoname · 03/07/2018 06:51

Hello

Slowly but surely sorting out all the things that will be needed (relying on checklists on the internet mostly!) before first baby is due in October and noticed yesterday that the Bounty app has a code at the moment - until the beginning of August - for 30% off of Angelcare baby monitors. I know of the brand from YouTube mums that I have shamelessly become hooked to watching but have never met anybody that has actually used one and can tell me if they live up to the hype (without getting paid by the company to say as much!)

Has anybody used one of these in the past and can let me know if they’re worth it? 30% off is good and all but if I can get better elsewhere then I’ll do that!

Thank you :)

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mummastripes · 03/07/2018 10:57

My son stopped breathing and I had to 'shock him' back into it again. It was the scariest moment of my life so bought one of these to at least allow me a small bit of sleep. Anything is worth it for reassurance.

BertieBotts · 03/07/2018 10:58

I don't think there's any product on the market in the UK which can measure oxygen sats, which would actually be useful IMO as reduced oxygen sats are normally something you can do something about. There's one on the US market as I've seen it on youtube etc but it's very pricey.

JustVent · 03/07/2018 11:06

Bertie you can buy little sats monitors.
I have one.

JustVent · 03/07/2018 11:08

@Isadora2007 can you screen shot the references? I’ve looked twice and can’t see them.

BertieBotts · 03/07/2018 11:08

Oh OK, that's good to know. I was thinking about car trips mainly, I don't think we'll have much cause to make any but it's an idea.

Isadora2007 · 03/07/2018 11:11

@justvent if you click on the wee numbers the references come up in a separate page. Will try to ss

Isadora2007 · 03/07/2018 11:13

Like this
Not all the links work to be fair but it isn’t just a blog of someone’s opinion. It’s all linked to reputable sources.

Isadora2007 · 03/07/2018 11:20

“there’s no evidence that monitoring the vital signs of healthy babies actually reduces their risk for SIDS, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.”

JustVent · 03/07/2018 11:42

Oh I see! I will take a look now, thank you.

JustVent · 03/07/2018 11:46

Unfortunately none of those links are reputable.
Some some of them don’t even link to anything.

beccii161016 · 03/07/2018 12:01

We loved ours (had the alarm but not the camera). We did have to stop using it at around 9 months though because ours started going off regularly obviously panicking the hell out of us but there was nothing actually wrong. I think it might have been because he used to curl himself up towards the top of his cot!

They are great though and I will use it again with my second. And clearly they do go off haha!

DailyMailFail101 · 03/07/2018 13:06

I never used a monitor, I bought one but never needed it. Baby was next to me for the first seven months, it’s one of those items you think you need but never use.

Isadora2007 · 03/07/2018 13:24

@justvent
I’m not prepared to spend the day checking resources from that blog but just one I found easily was from JAMA- The Journal of the American Medical Association is a peer-reviewed medical journal published 48 times a year by the American Medical Association. It publishes original research, reviews, and editorials covering all aspects of the biomedical sciences.

So I’m happy that the blog I linked to clearly has several reputable resources- some of which may not be active due to it being written a few years ago.

The fact remains that as SIDS is unexplained death we cannot and do not know how exactly to reduce the risks. By using so called monitors or things that are sold as “safety” monitors we risk making people feel like they have peace of mind that just is not accurate. Indeed a British paediatrician writing in the BMJ (can’t link as you need a login) said that parental anxiety itself is a protective factor and if people plug in a monitor and think it’s going to alert them if their baby is at risk then they are misguided.
I’ve seen here on MN people saying they move young babies into their own rooms early as they are “disturbing their sleep” but it’s fine as they have a video monitor. It does happen a lot. And it’s wrong that products can be sold with no evidence at all that they have any positive effect.

JustVent · 03/07/2018 14:05

I am, that’s why I looked. Unfortunately they aren’t reputable. Shame, but never mind.

Maybe I will look more into it.

Isadora2007 · 03/07/2018 18:41

Maybe indeed you should.

KNain · 04/07/2018 16:06

I have the video one for DS who is now 2. I found it brilliant. But I would only buy a video one.

They do have false alarms - it would go off if my very fidgety DS ended up sleeping lengthways across the very top of the cot. But because there was a camera when the alarm went off I looked on the video could see his position in the bed and that he was breathing and new it was a false alarm (this was obviously once he was well over a year old).

When he got older the alarm was handy for knowing when he was trying to climb out of the cot (and therefore needed to be moved to a bed). And the camera is handy for knowing when he's still in bed, and for checking he hasn't decided to sleep with a pillow over his face!!

I read all the stuff about whether they can help prevent SIDS before we bought it and I figured if the worst happened and there wasn't anything I could do, the monitor wouldn't make things worse - we didn't use the monitor as a substitute for safe sleeping advice (he was with us for 6 months, monitored his temperature, used grobags, in his own cot/basket etc etc).

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