Who else has an anxious sleep deprived monster in them?

The Owlet - I need to preface this post with a statement that in no way am I representative for the Owlet device and I’m not being paid for this post - although I bloody should be! 

For new parents out there, if you can afford get it, even if you can’t afford it, try and get one second hand, steal it from a neighbour you don’t particularly like, whatever you have to do really! 

We bought all the tech before our angel was due, the one I was most excited about was the Nanit Pro camera, and I’m still excited about using the Nanit, but hadn’t really considered the first months that our baby will be in our room and not her beautifully decorated and teched out room, as a result the Nanit with all its amazing specs of checking breathing and what not, is made null and void for now! The one thing we didn’t buy, the Owlet sock.

Now my daughter is quite the practical joker it seems, she’ll start her sleeping time between making cute little noises, to noises that sound like she’s choking, to being absolutely still and silent! Understandably this has meant that both my wife and I every 30 minutes or so sit bolt up right and see if we can feel her breathing, which inevitably leads to us waking her up, and starting the whole process again. Less than ideal! 

Friends of ours had gone with the Owlet from the start, and I wish we had too! So I hit Amazon and shock horror, it won’t be delivered for over a week - I realise in hindsight it’s Christmas and this is perfectly acceptable delivery time, but the anxious, sleep deprived monster living somewhere in my chest was not having any of it! Luckily a wonderful lady was selling her Owlet on Market Place (in her ad, she even stated her anxiety wasn’t as bad as she feared, so didn’t need it - oh what must that feel like??) and so I zoomed round to buy it, didn’t even check if was cheaper than brand new, I just knew I needed it then and there!! 

It has been an absolute game changer, the base station lights up green, to say the device is working, and her o2 sats and pulse is all good - I’m sitting bolt upright every 30 minutes, but now I see the green glow of joy and I can go back to sleep! Last night I even managed a whole hour! 

I’d love to hear from the community of tech obsessed dads out there, what do you use to keep the anxiety at bay?