![]() ![]() This makes it much easier to switch the sensor in and out of the four included socks. The sensor is secured into place by fitting it through a hole in the sock, and then anchored using velcro. What had been a flat circular shape with a micro-USB dongle for charging is now a thicker, dongle-less, button which sits in a butterfly-shaped fabric base. Let’s start with the sensor (one of the thoughtful bits). It’s become an indispensable tool to have on both mine and my partner’s phones. I’ve been happy with it overall I really like being able to check on my babies without having to walk upstairs and I rely on it to provide peace of mind when say, my kids insist on rolling onto their bellies in their sleep. Based on its features and the recommendations from my NICU parents group, I started using the second-generation Owlet sock earlier this year when the twins were released from the NICU. Most other companies that offer infant monitoring, like Nanit and Pamper’s Lumi, make cameras that include some kind of a wearable device. We definitely needed a product to continue that monitoring once we got home, and Owlet is one of the few companies that provides a wearable version for babies. And an oddly melodic “beeeeep beep beeeeep beep” meant the humidifier tubes that led to their isolettes weren’t condensing correctly. A frantic “beepbeepbeep” meant tachycardia or bradycardia. “Beep beep booooonk” was someone’s pulse ox dipping below 90 percent. ![]() ![]() One of the many things I became accustomed to when I visited was flicking my eyes to their monitors whenever the noises changed tone or frequency. It is worth every single cent in my eyes, as well as my husband's eyes, and he hates forking out money for baby products.My twins spent a little over 100 days in the NICU after they were born. Something was wrong that doctors at the ER missed simply because she was awake when they saw her, rather than asleep which was when her oxygen was tanking. But, now I love it 1000 times more because I had it when something was wrong. Just being able to go to sleep knowing that if something was wrong out of the blue, I would be alerted. I loved the peace of mind the Owlet gave me before this experience. Now she is completely happy and healthy and will forever more be sleeping with that amazing Owlet on her foot until the day she outgrows it. Me too doc, me too!! We spent two days in the hospital on oxygen and being monitored as she fought through the worst of the viruses. Our doctor told me he is so grateful that we had the Owlet because we were able to catch it before she declined even more. She had good color, she was happy, she didn't have a fever, she was eating perfectly normal, and so on and so forth. Her respiratory system was getting rocked, and she was showing zero signs while awake. She was tested at the hospital and her tests came back positive for both RSV and Coronavirus, a completely different respiratory virus. The thought was that parts of June's lungs were collapsing while sleeping because of the mucus. As she ran out the door to get the doctor, the Owlet red-alarmed again. The nurse was so surprised and was equally concerned that June had such low levels. Guess what.THE OWLET READ EXACTLY THE SAME AS THE DOCTOR'S MONITORS!!! We luckily got June to sleep so we could monitor her that way since that was when the alarms were going off, and her stats measured fine when she was awake in the ER. We took her into the doctor's office and took the Owlet with us so that we could compare it to the monitors the doctors used. ![]() It did not sit right with me that it was suddenly "malfunctioning" when my baby had a respiratory virus. I used the Owlet with my oldest, and had been using it since day one with June, and had never had a false alarm. ![]()
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