Home cardiorespiratory monitors for newborns—devices that track breathing, heart rate, or oxygen levels—are generally not recommended for routine use in healthy infants. While they may seem reassuring to parents, these monitors often generate false alarms, which can lead to unnecessary anxiety, sleep disruption, or even emergency room visits.
More importantly, reliance on these devices can give a false sense of security and distract from evidence-based safe sleep practices, such as placing babies on their backs to sleep, using a firm mattress without loose bedding, and avoiding co-sleeping. These proven strategies are the most effective ways to reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
Unless prescribed for specific medical conditions by a healthcare provider, routine use of these monitors is not supported by pediatric guidelines and may do more harm than good by shifting focus away from safe sleep habits and parental vigilance.
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None of the negatives you allege have anything to do with the baby. So the baby is no worse off. And some parents like it. I don’t care what experts say.
Yea sound like they just talking shit about something with a bunch of false assumptions and pessimistic attitudes. There is nothing wrong with having wellness redundancies as long as you maintain basic care practices. Either way as a father id rather have 1000 false alarms than a real alarm that i didn’t know was happening in the middle of the night.
Our over-reliance on institutions, who in turn rely on the output of other institutions, all while those institutions work with half-cocked and one-sided evidence filtered through “experts”, is going to be a BIG topic for future historians.