A lot of people have mixed opinions on the Angle Care Monitor and
I am one who is totally FOR it. Before Adam and I had Nolyn we decided
from night one that she was going to sleep in her crib. For us we felt
like it was the right decision and we were fortunate where her room was
so close to ours that we could get to her quickly if need be. Since we
made this decision while researching baby monitors I definitely took
that into consideration. When shopping around I talked with a few
girlfriends to find out what they had and a few of them mentioned the
Angle Care. As you may have heard there are some pros and cons to the
monitor. I wouldn’t consider the cons a negative but it is all personal
preference. Here are my thoughts on the monitor.
-If your baby is three months and under and you are planning to have your baby sleep in a their crib I think it’s a great item to give you a better “piece of mind” and sleep better at night. The reason I say 3 months and under is because this time period of their life is a much higher risk for SIDS. Especially since they aren’t able to roll themselves over well at this age. So many new moms don’t sleep well in the beginning because they are so worried about something happening in the babies sleep. I went to sleep every night feeling confident that if something was wrong (she stopped breathing) the alarm would go off.
-The biggest negative I hear about this monitor is that the alarm freaks people out because there are many false alarms. While this is true, the alarm did go off numerous times and nothing was wrong, I would rather have false alarms and there be nothing wrong than not knowing anything at all. The reason the alarm goes off is because it isn’t detecting any movement in the crib. Usually when our alarm would sound and I would go and check on our baby, she would have moved to a corner in the crib in her sleep. When the babies are this young you want to turn up the sensitivity on the monitor because they are so tiny. Proper set up with this monitor is imperative or you will have more false alarms. I will admit the first time or two when the alarm goes off it is a little scary because you don’t know what caused it to go off and fortunately every time she was okay. My thoughts are better to be safe than sorry.
-Once Nolyn turned three months old and she was rolling around decent, we started using a regular old fashioned monitor for sound and a Foscam which is AWESOME!!! It’s a camera that we have in her room and you access it from your iPhone so we can watch her and see her from anywhere in the world. I would highly recommend it.
-If your baby is three months and under and you are planning to have your baby sleep in a their crib I think it’s a great item to give you a better “piece of mind” and sleep better at night. The reason I say 3 months and under is because this time period of their life is a much higher risk for SIDS. Especially since they aren’t able to roll themselves over well at this age. So many new moms don’t sleep well in the beginning because they are so worried about something happening in the babies sleep. I went to sleep every night feeling confident that if something was wrong (she stopped breathing) the alarm would go off.
-The biggest negative I hear about this monitor is that the alarm freaks people out because there are many false alarms. While this is true, the alarm did go off numerous times and nothing was wrong, I would rather have false alarms and there be nothing wrong than not knowing anything at all. The reason the alarm goes off is because it isn’t detecting any movement in the crib. Usually when our alarm would sound and I would go and check on our baby, she would have moved to a corner in the crib in her sleep. When the babies are this young you want to turn up the sensitivity on the monitor because they are so tiny. Proper set up with this monitor is imperative or you will have more false alarms. I will admit the first time or two when the alarm goes off it is a little scary because you don’t know what caused it to go off and fortunately every time she was okay. My thoughts are better to be safe than sorry.
-Once Nolyn turned three months old and she was rolling around decent, we started using a regular old fashioned monitor for sound and a Foscam which is AWESOME!!! It’s a camera that we have in her room and you access it from your iPhone so we can watch her and see her from anywhere in the world. I would highly recommend it.
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