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 We love our Bebe sound and movement monitorApr 27, 2002
By Jill
Tip #1 the sensor pad can not sit on springs so you'll need a thin board if your mattress doesn't sit on a solid surface.Tip#2 at first we thought we couldn't turn off the annoying clicking sound unless we didn't want the movement sensor on, we were wrong, you can choose to have the monitor click every time your baby moves or breathes ( unfortunately it also clicks in the baby's room) or you can choose to just have the alarm sound if the monitor doesn't detect movement, no clicking. Tip#3 Remember to turn the monitor off every time you take your baby out of the crib or you may give your sleeping spouse the scare of his/her life!! Our baby doesn't seem to sleep very well in her bassinet and took to her crib really well but I couldn't stand it that I couldn't hear her breathing. This was one of the best purchases we made. I didn't want to spend so much but it has been worth the peace of mind. Her room is just across the hall so I don't even need the portable monitor, we've tested the movement sensor and the alarm is loud enough to hear in our room. It's easy to test ( just take the baby out of the crib) Our baby is a very light breather and the monitor works wonderfully, a light flashes with each movement or breath she takes. The alarm sounds if movement isn't detected after 20 seconds.
I highly recommend this product!! ps it can be plugged in or you can use batteries.
62 of 62 found the following review helpful:
Peace of Mind MonitorJan 29, 2002
By Kim Traver-Eads
I got this monitor as a gift from my mother. I was skeptical about it at first. I had never seen anything like it or heard anything about it. Since my mother bought it, I felt obligated to use it. Now I can't thank her enough. It has been a life safer, literally. My 6 mo old daughter had stopped breathing one night and the motion sensor alerted us. We were sleeping. If it weren't for the sensor I would never have known. We've had false alarms too, since she's a wiggle worm and scoots to the very corners of her crib. But I would rather get up every time the alarm sounds then not have an alarm at all.
50 of 50 found the following review helpful:
We Love it!Feb 08, 2002
By Don
We bought this same monitor as a Safety 1st Angelcare monitor for my granddaughter and wouldn't be without it. My daughter and granddaughter have lived with us until she is ten months old and I will be buying another one of these monitors for her backup crib at our home when she moves out. I was one of those who returned the first one I bought to the store because I thought it was defective, but I was determined to get the replacement to work and followed the instructions very carefully and found that I was the problem not the monitor. We have had false alarms, and some not so false alarms, and I will get up for as many false alarms as it takes to be there when the real alarm goes off. The peace of mind this monitor
provides is priceless. If you buy one make sure you follow the instructions and adjust it properly and you will love it. My granddaughter was such a light breather as a newborn that you could not tell if she was breathing, but the light on the Angelcare monitor was always able to show her slightest movements. We Love It!
41 of 41 found the following review helpful:
Great for the worrying parentJun 08, 2003
By Southernreign
"SR"
Let me start off by saying, works flawlessly for my 4 pound 3 ounce son. What peace of mind it has given my wife and I, we can sleep. This monitor runs off a 46/49 mhz signal which is far less crowded these days due to everyone having all the long range 900 mhz cordless phones and 2.4 ghz cordless phone, 2.4 ghz wireless computer routers, and even microwaves ovens. It isn't a crystal clear quiet monitor, but it has less static then some of the other 900 mhz straight baby monitors I've tried. Story: My wife and I are on our second preemie child, the first was ten years ago when our daughter was born at 1 pound 11 ounces; she came home after 82 days at 5 pounds 2 ounces on a bradycardia and apnea monitor and caffeine. Our son was born at 3 pounds 2 ounces and he had done so well in the hospital from day one that the doctors told us that he would be going home soon, without any monitoring system. My wife and I got filled with a lot of anxiety. When you sit in the hospital for weeks and months day and night with constant hospital bradycardia (low/no heart rate) and apnea (low/no breathing) monitoring you get quite co-dependant on it. My wife had seen this device advertised in a baby magazine and asked me what I had thought about its monitoring capabilities. I looked it up here on the Web and read all the reviews like you are doing now and was convinced that it was at least worth the[money] for a little peace of mind and we needed a baby monitor anyway. .... I was very skeptical about it's sensitivity, well we bought it before our son was released from the hospital, and I set it up in the crib between a piece of plywood and the baby mattress. I tested it out by just barely touching the mattress to mimic a very short shallow baby breath and it would detect it. "Amazing!!!" I thought. I could not wait to see how it would work for the baby. Well, after a $90,000 hospital stay in the NICU he finally came home after being in the hospital for just over 28 days at 4 pounds 3 ounces, and the hospital did send him home on a bradycardia and apnea monitor, the company `Healthdyne Technologies' that leases these hospital grade bradycardia and apnea machines told me that they can be rented for $250.00 per month by anyone if insurance wouldn't cover it. This machine attaches underneath your child clothes around a foam belt that raps around that chest area, this is really the only way of truly preventing SIDS, because SIDS can occur in a crib, bassinet, car seat, baby swing, day care center, babysitters etc, but isn't even 100% successful if there isn't anyone around to HEAR the alarm and RESPOND to `Rescue' the infant. We had our son sleeping in bassinet when he first came home with the BeBe monitor working and hospital grade monitor. I was amazed how the BEBE monitor was half a second behind the bradycardia and apnea monitor. I figure it was probably in the lower grade receiving circuitry in the BeBe monitor. It would detect all but the most shallow of breaths, and even then it would only miss one out a 30, it had no false alarms. Our son would have pauses in breathing that would show up on the bradycardia and apnea monitor that would last 5-7 seconds and the TIC on the BeBe monitor would be silent too so I knew it was working perfectly too. Both the hospital grade monitor and the BeBe Monitor are set at a 20 second apnea delay and then would give loud alarms which would wake the child back into breathing again and alarm the parents to `rescue' the infant if still needed.
Definitely gives us peace of mind knowing when the hospital monitor returns it a few week, we'll still have some apnea protection while we are all sleeping. So as the warning label on the BeBe Angelcare-Monitor states: "This machine will not prevent SIDS." Just remember, if you can't respond to the alarm and `Rescue' your baby, SIDS will not be prevented. 62 out 100,000 babies born die of SIDS yearly in the USA. That's 2000 infants die each year in the US. Mostly were preventable. 1 out of 5 die in day care centers. Remember to always have your baby sleep on his/her back. And have the mattress slightly elevated at 30 degrees to prevent any reflux disorder from feedings.
Do not over dress, or over cover your child with blankets, over heating is also thought to be a cause of SIDS. Dress/cover them no more then what you would dress/cover yourself.
Best $100.00 bucks you can spend for your little one. That's my two cents. ...
38 of 38 found the following review helpful:
BUY THIS & GET SOME SLEEP!!Dec 18, 2002
What is peace of mind worth to you?... At a glance you can see that your baby is breathing because each time she breathes a little light flashes! You don't have to walk into the room and risk waking the baby up. Some people complain of false alarms, and in the year we've had this item we've had about 4 false alarms. The pad is quite small and if baby rolls into a crib corner, or just breathes very shallow (which they do from time to time), then the monitor will go off. It also chirps when the battery is getting low, which will scare you but it's better than not letting you know. Regardless, I'd rather have a false alarm than no alarm when something is really wrong. This is a trustworthy device, and as first time parents we were terrified that something might happen to her when were weren't watching. This is the best purchase we've ever made. I definitely recommend it to all worried parents--which is probably most of us!
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