Fright of my life

[babybaillie]

We have a sense monitor in Jessicas cot and last night the alarm went off. I dived out the bed screaming on her put the light on and she was sound asleep and ok phew... got back to bed and a while later it did the same again. My nerves were shattered so brought her into our bed.... Terrified it will happen again or that something made her stop breathing slightly..

ANyone else had this. Think it s a tommee tippee motion sensor monitor

 

[DaisyBee]

Megan has stopped breathing a couple of times - she goes into such a deep sleep and the angelcare monitor has beeped its warning beep (not full alarm) & I go in and realized it wasnt a false alarm. I shake her slightly and she starts breathing again! So scary! Her dr wasnt worried about it - says some babies basically can go 15 seconds without taking a breath when they are sleeping deeply - but I still worry. THinking about getting a second opinion!

Dr says Megan will grow out of this - and she said if I didnt have my monitor it would have happened without me even realizing it.

 

[Pearl_vincent]

im a first mom , my baby is 23days old and since we got home ftom hospital, Ialways on alert and anxious when he slleps, checking on him all the time, im just scared he might stop or something impedes his breathing.

 

[Sunflowers]

Thing is, the monitors we use in NICU (which is a probe directly attatched to their tummy) sometimes go off falsely when the baby is in such a deep sleep they're "shallow breathing" and it looks like they're not breathing when in fact they are - how on earth is a pad that's all the way under a mattress supposed to detect that?

Personally I think the things are a waste of money and are only there because of the fears that parents have on SIDS and, as a result, will spend money on anything they can - it plays on people's vulnerability and I think that's wrong..

One thing I remember a consultant at work saying was if people have these mats, what would they do if they went off and it was a genuine case of the baby not breathing? Would you all know how to resus a baby? I'd be interested to know if there are any "instructions" on this in with the mat itself..

 

[babydevil1989]

i have the angel care mat and its never gone off falsely. and if it did go off i would know what to do! i would never sleep if i didnt have it so for me its a god send xx

 

[Emma1980]

Ive just ordered the angelcare one for obvious reasons, but am worried about this also as fin breathes so so shallowly when he's in a deep sleep, i visibly cant see him breathing and hafta touch and even then its hard to feel sometimes, i have no idea how the monitor can pick this up thru a mattress! its supposed to come tonight and i have a feeling im gonna be up lots - we already know that he often stops breathing in his sleep but has righted his self so far- i have had to stimulate him to breathe twice since thursday but i dont know if he would of righted himself given the chance...

i agreed that they were for paranoid parents before he was born, but as he does suffer from apnea, i had to eat my words on that one

 

[soup]

ours went off once and baby was quite hard to wak so not convinced it was a false alarm. very scary!

they are amazingly sensitive and will pick up breathing from baby pretty much anywhere on cot. the scbu that my friends lo's were in recommended them to get them. i am very happy with mine as feel it provides peace of mind. and yes i have been trained in resus so would hope that i would know what to do, and i am pretty sure there was resuss info in the box although im sure this wouldn't be to hand if needed in most cases.

 

[jenny82]

i love the angelcare monitor - could not be without it. and it does work as i forget to switch it off every time i lift him out of the cot so it always goes off!!

 

[jojo2605]

I have Tommy Tippee one and it went off for the first time the other day but when I checked the wire was slightly coming out of the base so popped it back in and it was fine, hasn't happened since.

They are extremely sensitive. Test it. Put it on, tap the mattress ever so slightly with your finger and you will see the light flash.

I don't think they do any harm at all to have them! I can't see how they can make you MORE paranoid, this confuses me slightly. I would be more paranoid without it. Whereas with it, I can go to sleep in the knowledge that if my LO was to stop breathing, I'd know about it!

 

[Ell87]

I don't have one as we cosleep but that sounds scary what happened, I'd have been a bag of nerves too.

 

[xolily]

i wouldn't have one. i think it's the same as a doppler.. causes more worry than it's worth! i think as a mum, you will know if something is wrong, you don't need a machine to tell you. x

 

[dacosta]

Thing is, the monitors we use in NICU (which is a probe directly attatched to their tummy) sometimes go off falsely when the baby is in such a deep sleep they're "shallow breathing" and it looks like they're not breathing when in fact they are - how on earth is a pad that's all the way under a mattress supposed to detect that?

Personally I think the things are a waste of money and are only there because of the fears that parents have on SIDS and, as a result, will spend money on anything they can - it plays on people's vulnerability and I think that's wrong..

One thing I remember a consultant at work saying was if people have these mats, what would they do if they went off and it was a genuine case of the baby not breathing? Would you all know how to resus a baby? I'd be interested to know if there are any "instructions" on this in with the mat itself..

before i gad my lo i swore i wouldnt have one of these but since she's arrived and now she only sleeps on her front the pad gives me peace of mind and yes i would know what to do if the alarm went off and i found she'd stopped breathing; its only common sense for mum's to teach themselves cpr just in case. its not up to the pad manufactureres to do that for us.

i do believe there's a degree of scaremongering that goes on around SIDS but if something can provide a bit of security for mum and baby i think its a good thing.

 

[bjl1981]

Yeah this happened a few months ago. It went off twice but LO was fine. I think it was because I'd changed his mattress earlier and I had it propper underneath with a towel as he had a cold, and I don't think the mattress was completely ontop of the monitor. Never happened since.
I never used it when LO was in a room with us, but its a real sense of reassurance now when he's up in his cot in his own room. I can just look at the unit and it flashes everytime he breathes

 

[bjl1981]

i wouldn't have one. i think it's the same as a doppler.. causes more worry than it's worth! i think as a mum, you will know if something is wrong, you don't need a machine to tell you. x

Although I agree to a certain extent, I wouldn't know if my LO stopped breathing in a seperate room, how could I
I saw on a BBC paramedics show that a lady had one of these as her first child died of SIDS, so for her second she bought one,and one night it went off and the baby had stopped breathing. They phoned 999 and the lady was able to talk the dad through CPR. If they hadn't had the monitor then the LO wouldn't have survived.
Not trying to scaremonger, but just thought It was relevant to this thread.

 

[Mynx]

i wouldn't have one. i think it's the same as a doppler.. causes more worry than it's worth! i think as a mum, you will know if something is wrong, you don't need a machine to tell you. x

Although I agree to a certain extent, I wouldn't know if my LO stopped breathing in a seperate room, how could I
I saw on a BBC paramedics show that a lady had one of these as her first child died of SIDS, so for her second she bought one,and one night it went off and the baby had stopped breathing. They phoned 999 and the lady was able to talk the dad through CPR. If they hadn't had the monitor then the LO wouldn't have survived.
Not trying to scaremonger, but just thought It was relevant to this thread.

I also think that even if you're in the same room, and the baby stops breathing while you're asleep, how on earth would you know? There'd be no sound to wake you up? This is coming from someone who sleeps thru Evie doing her nightly grunts and groans. I wouldnt have a clue if she were to stop breathing..very scarey stuff.
We have a normal baby monitor on which we heard Evie choking the other night, that scared the pants off me. Went in to the bedroom and she had a mouth and throatful of mucus that she couldnt swallow or spit out and was panicking. I picked her up, patted her back a bit and she burped. Then she looked at me and smiled, cooed, then went back to sleep, bless her. Scared me more than it did her!
I think those mattress sensors are a great idea and I'm seriously thinking about getting one myself after her choking incident.

 

[special_kala]

We have the angelcare one and have never had a false alarm. Can you adjust the sensitivity on the mat?

I dont think its a waste of money, they cost what £60 well alot of normal sound monitors are that much anyway so why not add that extra bit of security???

 

[DaisyBee]

We bought ours when we moved Megan to her own room. She wasnt sleeping well in our room as she would wake all the time with any little movement dh I I would make. When Megan was younger she would spitup lots of times in her basinett and choke on it. Half the time it would just get stuck and she turned pale and couldnt breathe. Now that she is older she doesnt have this issue - but I was worried enough about not hearing her choking that I decided to get the monitor. So if she couldnt get her spitup out of her throat she wouldnt be breathing & I'd have to go flip her over and hit her on the back.

I have had infant child and adult cpr classes- every few years my adult life so do know how to do cpr and want the opportunity to use it vs. realizing the next morning that my baby stopped breathing and I just continued to sleep. I think thats my right as a parent to be as paranoid as I choose to be. To each their own.

 

[Connah'sMommy]

Aw hun,we dont have the sensor mat but im sure that was very scary for you
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[angelmummy]

i wouldn't have one. i think it's the same as a doppler.. causes more worry than it's worth! i think as a mum, you will know if something is wrong, you don't need a machine to tell you. x

i agree totally. x

 

[RJ01]

Thing is, the monitors we use in NICU (which is a probe directly attatched to their tummy) sometimes go off falsely when the baby is in such a deep sleep they're "shallow breathing" and it looks like they're not breathing when in fact they are - how on earth is a pad that's all the way under a mattress supposed to detect that?

Personally I think the things are a waste of money and are only there because of the fears that parents have on SIDS and, as a result, will spend money on anything they can - it plays on people's vulnerability and I think that's wrong..

One thing I remember a consultant at work saying was if people have these mats, what would they do if they went off and it was a genuine case of the baby not breathing? Would you all know how to resus a baby? I'd be interested to know if there are any "instructions" on this in with the mat itself..

I think these mats are actually a good idea, a friend of mine had an episode in which the alarm had gone off and when she ran in the room baby had stopped breathing just grabbing baby out of the cot and screaming with shock was enough to bring baby round.
The alternitive being baby would lie there all night having stopped breathing even if you don't know baby cpr would you not have wanted the opportunity to do something
I certainly don't think it is "wrong" to keep your baby safe.