BebeSounds Angelcare Monitor Review

Since I have so many knocked up friends, I thought it might be helpful to review baby products that I find helpful, or a waste of money. Not that I’m a baby expert by any means, but I hope this can be somewhat useful to moms/moms-to-be.

My first product review is a baby gear item that I consider to be essential! The BébéSounds Angelcare Monitor works just like a regular sound monitor but also senses the movement of your baby. A small sensor pad is placed underneath the crib mattress and can sense your child’s movement – even their breathing! If movement is not detected for 20 seconds, first a warning beep will occur, and if that doesn’t stir the child, an alarm will go off. The alarm can be heard on each end of the monitor. The sound is thought to jar the child so that if they were sleeping so deeply that they actually forgot to breathe, they would snap out of it. Or, if they had actually stopped breathing, the early alerting of the caregiver would hopefully allow for the child to be saved from a tragic event. There is also a ‘tick’ feature that be turned on that will make a ticking noise on each end of the monitor each time movement is sensed. I choose not to use this feature, the alarm is enough for me.

False alarms are possible with this product if the baby moves to an area of the crib that the sensor can not detect. Our unit has gone off twice so far (we have had it for about a month). Once was the warning mini-alarm and that was all. Two days ago, the alarm actually went off for about 5 seconds. I shot out of bed, but before I even made it out of our room, the alarm had stopped…Lily woke up shortly after that.

The version that I have was $89.99 at Babies R Us and includes one parent unit. There are other versions that include two parent units, or units that also display the temperature in the baby’s room. Our crib came with a board that our mattress sits on and it also holds this sensor perfectly. However, if cribs do not have that feature, BebeSounds also sells a board that can go under the mattress that the sensor will sit on.

I consider this essential because I think it’s a great SIDS deterrant. A close friend of mine lost her son to SIDS and it was absolutely tragic. I’ve mentioned before that Lillian loves to cuddle, and in her crib, she likes to cuddle with the crib bumper. We put the bumper back in her crib because she moves around a lot while she sleeps and I’d come into the nursery and find her crying with an arm or leg through the crib slats, or she would have her head jammed again the edges. Once she started sleeping through the night (STTN) I would wake up in the morning and be panic stricken because she hadn’t made a noise all night. I didn’t want to go in her nursery and wake her, but I couldn’t fall back asleep because I would be so nervous. Ever since I bought this monitor, it has given me total piece of mind.

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