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baby monitor
Owlet

Dream Sock

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Baby monitor
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Folded size
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What parents keep saying · from 14 reviews

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Had no false or real alarms over four months and says the Owlet made them sleep much better with a reflux baby.

“we’ve never had a false nor thankfully a real alarm. Only times it goes off is if we go downstairs in the morning and I haven’t yet took the sock”
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Bought it at three months and says it made sleep much better, never having a false alarm.

“I didn’t get mine until she was three months old. I had horrible anxiety and woke up every hour checking on her which would then wake her up. I was”
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Loves the Owlet on both babies, with no false alarms in 18 months and one with the newborn because of tiny feet.

“I love mine personally. I’m a very anxious person so before we got one with my first baby I was awake all night watching her breathe. Owlet allowed me to”
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Used it daily for a year; it only went off for lost connections and once while holding the baby, so they call it a paranoia machine.

“We used it every day for a year and I hated it. Only times it went off were a lost connection that woke our kid or ONE time where it”
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Had insane numbers of false alarms from lost phone or Wi-Fi signal that woke the whole family.

“We used it and the amount of false alarms was insane. It was lose signal to the phone or WiFi and go off and wake all three of us up.”
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The Owlet went off all the time and raised their anxiety, so they stopped using it.

“The owlet gave me so much more anxiety because it went off all the time and I’d freak out, and then my son would be fine. I know it helps”
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Returned the Owlet after one night because it irritated the baby's foot and was hard to get monitoring correctly.

“I had pretty bad sleep anxiety with my baby and ordered the owlet and ended up returning it after one night. It irritated her foot”
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Uses the Owlet for night sleep with a reflux baby, gets only yellow placement alerts, and loves the sleep graphs.

“We use it as well. Im a FTM and i wasnt sleeping at all the first three weeks post. Mine has reflux and was silently choking on her spit up”
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Hated the Owlet and threw it away in the middle of the night after so many false alarms.

“I hated the owlet, we had so many false alarms I threw it away in the middle of the night in a fit of rage.”
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Started at six months in a separate room; the green status stopped them checking on the baby, though it sometimes failed to connect.

“We had one. I know that the advice says it could increase anxiety but I felt like it decreased mine. We started using it when he moved to his own”
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Stopped using their Owlet after a week or two because of one or two false alarms a night.

“I love the idea but the tech is not quite there yet. We stopped using ours after a week or two because we got 1-2 false alarms per night. So”
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Their baby kicked so much that the Owlet was always going off, and they sold it after three days.

“We tried using one but our son kicked and cricketed constantly so it was always going off and we sold it after 3 days.”
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A first responder with high anxiety about infant death had no false alarms with the Owlet and says it let them sleep.

“I am a first responder and have responded to calls of when people wake up to realize their baby has passed away. My anxiety went through the roof when I”
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Called the Owlet a sanity saver; one false alarm in eight months, caused by the baby holding her breath.

“It was an absolute sanity saver for me. In 8 months we had one "false alarm" and it was from her holding her breath while farting.”
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The Owlet took their anxiety from about 8 out of 10 to 2 and let them sleep soundly.

“Having an owlet took my anxiety from an 8/10 to like a 2/10 and I was able to sleep soundly. If you feel like you aren’t anxious and/or that an”
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Used the Owlet when the baby was sick; it alarmed one night during breathing trouble, leading to three days in the PICU, and was the only red alarm.

“We have one and used it especially when baby was sick. It actually did alarm us one night when I dosed off and she was having trouble breathing due to”
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Their Owlet went off many times, slid around and off easily, and woke both parent and baby; they ended up hating it.

“Ours went off so many times and in my sleep deprived state I can’t say how many times I panicked and wakes the baby before even checking the sock placement.”
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Has never had a false alarm and says the peace of mind helped their early anxiety, though it is not a necessity.

“My owlet has never had a false alarm. I’m sure they happen, but the peace of mind really helped my anxiety in the beginning.”
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Used the Owlet alongside a medical-grade pulse oximeter; it read the same, stayed on better and alarmed less because it is wireless.

“my son was in the nicu and had a trach. we used the owlet sock alongside our medical grade pulse oximeter and it read the same and often stayed on better”
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Loved the Owlet: the yellow alerts reassured them it was working and it was the only thing that reduced their night-time anxiety.

“parents who have them it’s like 95% it reduced anxiety or alerted on a real event. We loved ours and it’s the only thing that reduced my anxiety at night.”
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Says the Owlet reduced their anxiety rather than increasing it: distinct sounds for a bad sock reading versus a real alert, and they sleep more soundly.

“I see everyone who doesn’t have one say that but I will tell you it has done the absolute opposite. There are different sounds for “hey the sock isnt reading”
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Sleeps without anxiety because the Owlet Dream Sock monitors their baby.

“Owlet dream sock. I sleep without any anxiety because I feel so comforted knowing she’s being monitored.”
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