So I tried out three smart baby monitors: the Owlet Smart Sock, the MonBaby Smart Button, and the Snuza Pico. The idea of having one of these smart baby monitors to reassure me while she naps - or alert me if something is wrong - holds some real appeal. I’ll soon be staying at home with my daughter on paternity leave, taking care of her by myself while my wife returns to work. You can glance at your smartphone to see that the sensors are showing everything as normal - and if they aren’t, your phone and the baby monitor will start going nuts. They use sensors placed on your baby’s body to monitor things like heart rate, respiration, sleeping position, blood oxygen level, or body temperature, and warn you via your smartphone if anything should fall outside the range of normal. Having a kid puts those minor anxieties into perspective … by creating an even bigger anxiety.Ī growing number of smart, wearable baby monitors want to assuage that anxiety. I’ve panicked about losing things before: jobs, relationships, security deposits on apartments. It’s also an object lesson in being terrified. Luckily, the battery on my phone died and my daughter woke up shortly after, hungry and absolutely fine.īeing a new parent is a wonderful, transformative thing. I scrolled through message boards and SEO-spam websites, learning stats about SIDS, reading a few horror stories, and considered calling in a nurse. It was then that I made my first mistake as a father. I thought I remembered something from one of the many things I’d read preparing for our first kid - weren’t newborns supposed to have their heads higher than their feet? More specifically, her feet seemed to be elevated above her head. I hadn’t slept in over 40 hours, but I was wide awake, worrying about my daughter’s feet.
When my daughter was about three hours old, she and my wife were sleeping soundly in the postpartum room at the hospital. Illustration: Sudowoodo/Getty Images (baby) CSA Images/Getty Images (satellite)
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