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84 of 86 found the following review helpful:
 Small Price to Pay for Peace of Mind Mar 14, 2010
By Dead Kev
"Zombie Advocate"
Eight months ago today, my wife gave birth to an amazing baby boy. This is our first child and as such, it's been very stressful. Are we doing things right? Why in the world is he crying? Why does it seem more milk is coming out of him then went in him? What's that smell?
We've been using the Angelcare monitor since day one and it has been the single best child-related purchase we've made so far. It's the one thing that has actually relieved a little stress on us as parents. We're all aware of SIDS and how scary it is to think about. A simple sound monitor won't help you sleep any easier. A video monitor won't either. But, when you know that an alarm will sound if your child stops breathing/moving, then you have some peace of mind. If that should ever happen, would you be able to even make a difference? Could you revive your child? I hope I don't have to answer that question, but at least with the Angelcare monitor I feel like I have a fighting chance.
We did not have a single false alarm until around 6-7 months. The alarm went off, and we proceeded to freak out. The manual says that false alarms can be caused by really deep sleep. Our boy was starting to sleep better and I think this was the case, because even the alarm hadn't woke him up when we arrived on scene (our craziness did wake him up though). We chalked it up to a fluke. It happened again a week or so later and that's when we upped the sensitivity on the nursery unit. We haven't had a false alarm since.
In this day and age, it's rare that something actually works the way it's supposed to. Hence the reason I'm so impressed with this monitor. The sound is clear. The range is good (our room is downstairs and the baby's is up). The charge on the parent's unit can last a couple of days without being charged. The night light is a nice bonus. This monitor does what it says it does, and it does it well. I would recommend this to any parent!
22 of 25 found the following review helpful:
I can sleep again Apr 14, 2010
By Mindy Brooks Smith
"Mommy of 1"
I am a first time mom and paranoid of all the dangers for an infant. I am terrified of SIDS. I couldn't sleep at night because I was waking every 20 minutes to check on my baby. One night when I checked on her, she was breathing so shallow I couldn't feel her tummy rise. I thought she had stopped breathing I panicked and shook her torso; she jumped and started to cry because I had scared her. After that she slept in my bed, but again I didn't sleep because I was afraid of her wiggling under me. I couldn't keep doing this to myself or my daughter. I didn't even know they made a monitor like this until I was desperately trying to find anything that monitors breathing on Amazon. After I received the monitor, I can finally sleep again and my daughter is happy sleeping in her crib without me freaking out and waking her up.
The pad goes under the crib mattress and plugs into the main base monitor. The base monitor plugs into an outlet and blinks to show that there is breathing/any movement in the crib. It can detect the slightest movement. The listening monitor has a base that recharges itself, so I leave that part plugged into an outlet next to my night stand. The listening monitor can be set to also go off to wake me her my daughters room get too hot or too cold (you set the temperatures), and if I take the monitor too far out of range. If the main base monitor does not detect any movement for 20 seconds it will beep loud (like a fire alarm) in her room and my monitor in my room will also beep loudly and vibrate.
I did have a false alarm once. My daughter had wiggled herself all the way to the corner of her crib. Everything was fine though. I'd rather have false alarms like that then to not be woken at all.
Another great feature that this product has is on the listening monitor there is a little swigging ball. This shows that there is movement/breathing movement in her crib. I like this because sometimes I still wake up, but I can be reassured by just looking at the movement on my screen. I highly recommend this product! Thank you to whoever invented it.
17 of 19 found the following review helpful:
 Mind more at ease, but definitely glitchy May 05, 2010
By J. Schmidt
I won't deny this has given me a lot more peace of mind, I was neurotically checking on my son all the time to see if he was breathing. However, paying the extra for the thermostat etc sort of bums me out -- the temperature gauge is definitely off (I've checked it against another thermometer). Also, the whole system seems glitchy. The sensor will all of a sudden start going off all the time even when my son hasn't moved off the sensor, he's still breathing, nothing is changed-- it's like it just goes nuts occasionally. And, sometimes the receivers show that the temperature in the room has jumped up to 78 degrees when that DEFINITELY is not the case. The glitchy electronics make me feel less secure that the product is truly working the way its supposed to, so my peace of mind is diminished. I would buy this again but would buy the lower end version. It appears the Amazon price is far superior to the standard Babies R Us price, so that's a big "pro".
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Please Read!! Nov 07, 2011
By Kimberly
This is the best item that we have purchased since we had our baby! Last week, our 6 week old baby was asleep in the crib. We have never had the alarm go off.. ever.. but it did one night. My husband and I were in the living room, heard the alarm, went to her room.. and our baby was laying in the crib, and really pale. I freaked out, grabbed her arm and called her name and she did not react. I picked her up and I heard her gasp for air. We took her to the hospital, and they ran extensive tests. It did not happen again in the hospital, and it has not happened again since we have been home.. but I am so relieved that we had this mattress sensor. If it had not of gone off and alerted us of her not breathing, who knows what would have happened.
Please buy this for your baby.. you will not regret it!
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Use plywood if there are false alarms!! Oct 23, 2010
By lt
My baby is 5 months old, and we have used the monitor since he came home from the hospital. We had quite a few false alarms at first, but we read the instruction manual, and it said to put a piece of plywood in between the mattress and the springs if the alarm goes off without reason. I would also recommend "testing" it. At one point, the sensitivity was so great that our child was out of his bed and the monitor was still blinking as if he was still in there. Every once in a while, especially when you first start using the monitor, take your child out of the bed without turning the monitor off. If the alarm doesn't go off, turn it to have less sensitivity.
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