![]() I tell you this not to scare you but because the head paediatrician said sometimes babies just have moments like this. We spent a week at an amazing London hospital (I am in the UK) and they found nothing. With my first I had severe PPD/PPA, he stopped breathing in my arms at 2.5 months old. I have an owlet for the same reason you do - two live births, nine pregnancies - can’t face anymore loss. I’d say keep using your baby monitor, and don’t forget to air his room daily (just for 10-15 mins and while he is not there), so it had fresh air. I’d say you need to look into switching your pedi team - clearly they don’t follow the most recent stuff in babyworld, and that’s a nono for me personally, and the other thing - if you are not comfortable with their advice, you have the right to change the pedi. Unfortunately, SIDS is something doctors have very limited information on right now, but the good news is it’s pretty seldom (though I do understand it’s very real who’s had losses or was faced with SIDS as first or even second hand experience). Another thing you might consider is doing smth called “information hygiene” - just like you choose what to put into your body in the form of food, you can and should put information that will be helpful and not hurtful- so googling stuff constantly, listening to other folks who are going through PPA or PPD, etc should be very controlled and done mindfully by you. IMO, I’d say talk to your doc re: screening you for PPA, sometimes therapy is not enough and one needs some temporary help to help get them balanced. First, your baby is adorable! And I’m so sorry for your losses. Hugs, OP, the below advice is mine only, so please use it or leave it. He was sort of in a funny position right before it went off on his belly with his butt up in the air and head turned to the side, maybe that impacted things? Only thing that I can think of is that the owlet sock is a little stretched out but I checked placement after the alarm (sometimes my husband doesn’t do a great job of putting it on and I can tell based on oxygen numbers not being higher) and placement was good and tight. He is acting completely normal this morning. ![]() He’s a little congested and had some loose stools yesterday but I don’t think he’s super sick (kind of always has something brewing thanks to daycare this winter). He was full term, he crawls, pulls to stand, and cruises. Breastfeed, on back to sleep (but he immediately flips over), nothing in crib except sleep sack on him and paci, no one smokes in our house. I do everything to prevent sids but I’m still so scared. ![]() They didn’t seem very familiar with it and just were like it’s not accurate. ![]() Should I call his pediatrician? They have already told me not to use the owlet (I had mentioned in the past when he had a cold the oxygen levels were lower than normal). But the graph makes it seem like it was a legit drop in oxygen, now I don’t know what to do. I must have had an intuition because at 1:40am the red alarm went off and I sprinted into his room and he was fine. Had a hard time falling asleep, kept checking owlet and nest camera in his room. My sister had a baby in July and texted me last night that she read about a blogger whose baby died of sids recently and she was sitting on the couch crying, after that I was trying not to but googling statistics and stories which is terrible but I can’t help myself sometimes. I’ve only ever had a red alarm twice, both on the same night in June before realizing I had the sock on wrong. My son is 7 months old and I have used the owlet almost every night since he was born. First off, anyone coming here to tell me I shouldn’t use the owlet can just move along, I had four losses before this baby and I’m scared to death of losing him too. ![]()
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