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Testing Angel Care Monitor?

Marie62405Marie62405
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I got a used Angel Care Monitor from my friend.  It's a few years old and it's just the monitor, I don't have the instructions or anything to go with it.  Is there anyway to test that it actually works?  I am a worry wart as it is, and now that I'm going to be bringing a preemie home, I will be even more worried.  Does anyone know of a way to test it?

Also, for those of you who have older preemies, how did you ever sleep?!?!?  I feel like I'm going to have to stare at her constantly to make sure she is still breathing!!  It's sort of comforting to have the monitors hooked up to her in the NICU because you know if something goes wrong.  How did you handle it once they came home? 

 

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  • TriciaJoyTriciaJoy member

    Just hook it up and when it doesn't detect movement, it should go off. A lot of people forget to turn it off when they pick the baby up and get a reminder pretty quickly.

     


    For me- I STILL use Robbie's apnea monitor at night. I'd probably keep it on him til he went away to college if I had my way. 

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  • jennifer griveasjennifer griveas

    I have the angel care - we tested it first by just putting our son in the crib, then picking him up to make sure it went off.  Then we put a phone book in there to see if a heavy object would trick it.  Nope -- the nonmoving phone book set it off.  

    I kept the apnea monitor on Nicholas for 4 months even though he never had one alarm go off.  and the day they took away the apnea monitor I hooked up the angel care.  I still use it now, and he's almost 10 months.  I'm probably being ultraneurotic, but I don't care -- with a monitor, I can sleep.  Without, i'd be up watching him all night to make sure he's breathing.  Just part of being a NICU survivor I guess....

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  • gizmo909gizmo909
    You can test it before LO comes home by turning it on and pushing on the mattress then stop and make sure it alarms.  Then test it again when LO comes home to make sure it detects her.  Just make sure you have everything turned on in the room that will be on when she is there (i.e. ceiling fan).  The settings on our Angelcare out of the box picked up the movement of our ceiling fan on low so if DS stopped breathing and the fan was on it wouldn't have alarmed.  All it took was adjusting the sensitivity and it works great now!
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