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This is the internet, though, so people like me will always exist. We bought a fairly cheap wearable monitor early on, and it works. Both in the sense that it
by ledauphin 7y ago
This is the internet, though, so people like me will always exist.
We bought a fairly cheap wearable monitor early on, and it works. Both in the sense that it has given us a couple of false positives when it got out of position, and in the more important sense that it has only done so a handful of times and the rest of the time I sleep much more soundly because I know it would go off if our child stopped breathing.
Honestly, this is not a truly hard problem to solve, and I'm kind of amazed that the APA hasn't figured that out yet. On the other hand, obviously the effect on different parents may vary.
- whatshisface 7y agoWhat use is it to know when your child stops breathing? Is there anything you can do about it?
- goodcanadian 7y agoCPR, artificial respiration, call an ambulance . . .
- catalogia 7y agoI wonder what the survival rate for infant CPR is. I know for adults it's shockingly low, particularly without an AED. Pediatric AEDs exist, but I doubt many concerned parents have one. Don't get me wrong, I support people learning CPR. It's better than nothing.
- ledauphin 7y agoas I understand, SIDS is sometimes (not always!) literally that an infant is sleeping so deeply that it forgets to breathe. Sometimes simply rousing them from the deep sleep would be able to correct the situation if it could be detected.
- goodcanadian 7y agoOh wow. You reminded me of a mildly traumatic memory of my infant daughter literally turning blue before my eyes before taking a gasping breath and going back to normal. It was no more than a couple of seconds (babies turn blue fast), but it certainly sent my heart racing . . . I think she was crying very aggressively to get herself into that state; I forget the exact details.
- rootusrootus 7y ago> This is the internet, though, so people like me will always exist. Touche. Definitely experience will vary. In my circle of friends, we were using angelcare monitors about 10 years ago, which to be fair are more about sensing movement than trying to directly detect sleep apnea. Nobody liked them, everyone stopped after a while and decided the very small risk of SIDS wasn't worth the suffering involved in trying to detect it. That said, one of my friends did have a son pass away (on his first birthday, no less, which is pretty late for SIDS IIRC) during the night for unexplained reasons, so I can't really blame parents for being paranoid. You have to find what works for you, and for everyone that's going to be different.
- donclark 7y agoIm curious to know what cheap wearable monitor you used. I will be having a boy 1st of the year and would like something like this.