angel care baby monitor?

Carmina_Piranha_3

just wondering if anyone has used an angel care monitor - the ones with a pad to monitor breathing etc.

my sister is looking for one and has found them for around £50 but isn't sure it's the correct thing because she thought they were more expensive.

her 9 month old had a fit and he stopped breathing in the ambulance. he's okay now and came home after 3 days in hospital but now she's worried that it might happen again, thinking that when he sleeps at night or even when napping in his cot she wouldn't know if he had another fit or stopped breathing.

is the £50 the correct monitor? are they any good?

galaxyone

Hi

We had the angelcare monitor when my son was a baby (now nearly 3 years) - it was around £60 I think. I would recommend it. The only problem we had was that a couple of times the alarm went off in the middle of the night (PANIC!!) because he had wriggled too far away from the sensor pad. But I will definitely be using it again with our next baby. I think without it, I'd be going and checking they were OK every 5 minutes.

Hope this helps

Carmina_Piranha_3

thanks. the baby is 9 months old so will probably wriggle away from the sensor pad a lot!

elzie

Yes I used the angelcare one too and also found it very sensitive to wriggling babies!
And the clicking noise when the batteries were low drove me mad!

Moonbeam

Used the angelcare monitor for my son, and just dusted it off to use again with 2nd baby due in April. Agree with the false alarms, but would rather have had them than the the real thing......

We found that we needed to put it on a flat base on top of the cot slats to keep it steadier - just used a dinner mat and that really helped....

Great product - £50 sounds about right - but it's easy to know if you have the right one = the monitor you keep with you looks like a little angel, and the bit that stays in the baby's room is a cloud.

njc12

Hi - we used one made by maws I think it was - will dig it ou and check. It also has the pad underneath the baby but we never had a false alarm. I would recommend them definitely!

njc12

outrageous_monkey

Hi

I used the Angel Care baby monitor when my youngest was born. He was prem and they had used something similar (more hi-tech) at the hospital. We never really had trouble with the alarm going off when he was a small baby. We found as he got older and moved around more, say at age 2, it became a problem. I wouldnt have been without it. I had peace of mind and the tick tick sound of the breathing got me to sleep at night. I think ours was about £60 and we have since bought them for close friends and family when they have had a baby.

HTH

maplegirl2011

there are some on the market that have one large sensor pad or two smaller ones to limit the false alarms. have found the 2 smaller pad one on ebay to show you the make etc. i had the angelcare one for my son and started to get false alarms at about 6 mths, but would rather have some false alarms then nothing at all.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/nircom-baby-sense-monitor-non-breathing-alarm-B-NEW_W0QQitemZ290065918345QQihZ019QQcategoryZ20435QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem

Carmina_Piranha_3

thanks, she seems happy with the angelcare one she bought but he started crawling a couple of days ago so maybe she's not so happy with it now. but false alarms are worth the peace of mind she says. i think when you've actually had a scare you'd do anything to make sure nothing went wrong without you knowing about it in time to call an ambulance.

debsue

If you are going to use this type of monitor, should you not learn baby resusitation techniques fir?st

emma_b_4

in the case of babies who have been in hosp with breathing problems and respiratory arrest; the parents will usually be shown/offered some kind of resus training or advice.
its useful for parents to know resus techniques anyway, aswell as basic first aid regardless of what monitor they are using!!

i am pregnant, not very far along yet, and im also a student paediatric nurse. i am trying not to get paranoid (sometimes too much information isnt a good thing!) but think will look at getting this type of monitor for my own sanity

xx