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Whose gone home w/a heart monitor?

TluceyTlucey member
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My LO came 5 wks early and was in the NICU for 2 wks and sent home w/a heart monitor for apnea/bradycardia. She's been home now 5 wks and the episodes have slowed down considerably where we've felt comfortable taking he off the monitor for a good portion of the day except when she's asleep.

If anyone has a monitor, what has your experience been and how long did you have it for? 

 

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  • morganoremorganore
    DD was born 12 weeks early and came home 3 weeks before her due date on a monitor. She only really had real ones for about a week then the rest were false alarms. We used it for a month and then felt like she was fine, her dr said it would be fine too. Then she was officially d.c.'d 2 weeks later.
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  • arthist24arthist24
    DS was 10 wks early and was on the monitor for two and a half months after coming home. 
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  • DoubtfuloneDoubtfulone

    DD was born 7 weeks early and came home on the monitor. For the first week or so we had her on it all the time and then little by little we would take it off for long periods of time except for sleep. Basically, when we felt pretty comfortable with things we just sort of stopped using it. Watch your LO, not the monitor when it alarms.

    I bet in a week or so you will be free of it. One day I looked at it and thought to myself, "I need to return that thing... we don't even use it."  :)

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  • AVA0908AVA0908
    DS was 14 weeks early and we had one when he came home a month after his due date. He used it for about 2 months and then after that, when he became more active, we just put it on him when he was sleeping.
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  • Leigh71Leigh71

    We had ours for 2 months.  My DD came home on oxygen, and as we weaned her oxygen it would be helpful.... (she'd have more A;s and B's if she wasn't tolerating the weaning...)

    Like the others .... I started feeling comfortable having it on only at night/or when she was sleeping....  I called the doctor to ASK them to d/c it.... we felt comfortable/little to no spells/just didn't need it anymore.....

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  • thomas2013thomas2013 member
    My son was born at 26 weeks and came home with one. We had a love/hate relationship LOL. He never had an episode thank god but it went off when the leads would get to warm and come off on his clothes. Scared me half to death. About a month after he was home he only wore it at night and about a month later was off all together. I am pregnant now and I am wishing I still had it LOL
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  • ShannonMarieHShannonMarieH
    DS was 6 weeks early and came home with a heart monitor. The doctor would not even consider taking her off the heart monitor until she was episode free after her due date. She had it for 2 months. We would take it off her if someone was holding her or she was in the swing and we were in the room after we had no episodes for about a month.
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  • TluceyTlucey member

    How did everyone cope after you didn't have the monitor? I'm so worried when it comes to the evening time, we bought the AngelCare monitor but right now she's elevated to help with the reflux, so this isn't going to work until we overcome that too.

    She's doing so well, hardly any episodes now and the entire time we've had her on the monitor she's corrected herself with only one time that I needed to stimulate her. 

     

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