I bought this product for my newborn daughter because we were afraid to leave her alone in her crib. A friend had recently lost their baby to SIDS. It was easy to install. The hardest part was the pieces of wood to support the sensors, but you can just buy them on Amazon too. I made mine out of scrap plywood. I was amazed the first night when I got close enough to hear her breathing and noticed that the sensors caught every breath and flinch which is displayed by a green flash on the control unit (which is not as bright as people complain about. I sleep two feet away. Maybe it is a different model). Some people claimed their ceiling fan or airconditioning would set it off. I tested it several times and neither seemed to be enough on the sensors to keep the alarm from going off. Perhaps it is crib placement? The only annoying thing was that I would take her out of the crib and forget to turn it off, but eventually, we got used to pushing the button first. The third night we were using it, the alarm went off in the middle of the night. I jumped up and found she had scooted to a corner. I scooped her up, she jumped, and I put her back in the middle. I then reset the alarm assuming it was a false alarm. The next day when I woke up she had scooted to that corner again but had NOT set the alarm off. The next night the alarm went off in the middle of the night again. This time she was right in the middle. When I touched her she didn't flinch and I noticed that she was not breathing. I shook her she didn't flinch. She didn't jump until I picked her up all the way out of the crib. I am not a doctor. I don't know if she would have started breathing again on her own, or if this device saved her life. I also don't ever care to test it. All I know is she stopped breathing, and 20 seconds is long enough for me. This thing is awesome. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles of the other devices, but it covers the WHOLE crib and I am willing to bet that there is just more money invested in the sensors because they are incredible. This was the best thing we bought for our new baby. I am recommending this to everyone. Read more

Our 4 month old son figured out how to roll onto his tummy and decided that’s how he preferred to sleep. With the back is best sleep rule, this made me very nervous and I would spend time repositioning him to his back throughout the night only to have him immediately roll back to his tummy. The expert opinion I read on this differs.. some say once they can roll at all leave them be, other’s said if they can’t roll both ways to put them back on their back. Our son didn’t know how to roll from tummy to back yet, so this made me worry when he slept. My mom said they were instructed to place babies on their tummies to sleep when I was little, so I slept on my tummy WITH a blanket in the crib.. this made me feel a little better, but the safe recommendations are different now than almost 30 years ago. Long story to say that I decided I wanted something to monitor my son’s movement and breathing. After reading reviews on lots of different products, I decided on this one. I liked that it’s battery powered and cords are all contained/connected in the unit and alarm sensor under the mattress where our son can’t grab it. I also liked that it’s used as a medical device in other countries, not the US where I’m from, but it’s nice other countries trust it that much. The sensors are very sensitive. When we did our test after installing it, we found out that we couldn’t have our little floor fan within 10ft of it. Even at 10ft away, if the fan is angled to blow directly on the crib, the sensors will pick it up. I like how sensitive it is since it makes me feel like it really would pick up if our son stopped moving or having breathing movements. I also liked that there were two sensor pads since our son moves around the crib now. This is a big reason I chose this product over others. We have not had the alarm go off in the past month at all (no false alarms or real ones), but every time I test the sensors they go off, so I know the product is working. I test my sensors daily and anytime we changed the crib sheets just to be safe, and they always work. I’ve only forgotten to turn off the sensors a couple times at night during diaper changes... luckily the alarm only woke up my husband and not our son lol. I should add that we have a normal basic Serta baby mattress and it works well with it. We had debated buying a breathable mattress, but those costed hundreds of dollars and even if they work (I’m not fully convinced they do) they wouldn’t alert me to anything.Overall, I highly recommend this product. I know nothing can prevent SIDS, but this product makes me feel way less worried and allows me to sleep better while my tummy sleeping son snoozes away. Read more

We purchased this for our 3 month old daughter when we moved her to her crib in her room. First, I didn’t love the fact that there was no way to connect it to my monitor and since we have two kids our monitor scans back and forth to the rooms so I wouldn’t always here it right away. Next, every time it did go off, I’d run up to her room and everything was totally fine. It was usually just because she’d moved to the edge of the mattress. I tried adding the second sensor and moving them to different places and nothing really seemed to help. Finally, and most importantly, I returned this monitor because there were multiple occasions where I would get my daughter out of her crib to change her or feed her or whatever and forget to turn the sensor off and it didn’t go off! I am ok with running up stairs in the middle of the night to make sure she’s ok, but when there definitely is no movement because she’s not even in there and it doesn’t go off, that doesn’t give me any peace of mind. I had high hopes for this product after reading great reviews but unfortunately it didn’t work for us. Read more