When people talk about ‘sleeping like a baby’, they really
must mean spending the whole night tossing and turning as the one thing babies
do a lot of all-night if moving around and walking up. It’s normal for babies
to fidget and move around at night, largely because it’s at night that their
brain start to over experiences of the day before, rehearsing movements and
trying things out the next day that little better. Night time for babies is
practise time for the days ahead! So one way of checking to make sure that your
baby is safe and well during the night is to check that they are moving around regularly.
On average a baby moves at night about once every ten seconds, a pause without
movement for fifteen seconds is very unusual and if it has been twenty seconds without
any movement at all, that may be a warning sign.
On average a baby moves at night about once every ten seconds
Sleep apnoea, which is when a person stops breathing during
sleep, is something which anyone can suffer from and in fact many people do. Adults
may well suffer from sleep apnoea but not even realise it, except that they
feel terribly lethargic all day. But in babies sleep apnoea can be extremely
dangerous.
This is where baby movement or baby breathing monitors come
in. Most baby breathing or baby movement monitors attach simply and easily to
your baby’s nappy and are able to detect even the slightest movement, they then
measure the time elapsed since the last movement.
Some movement monitors will sound an alarm if no movement has been detected after 15 or 20 seconds, with some monitors such as the Snuza Halo Mobile Baby Monitor initially attempting to stimulate and stir your baby into moving before sounding an alarm five seconds later if this has not been successful. Breathing monitors work in much the same way, with some like the Respisense Data Baby Breathing Monitor even recording your baby’s breathing pattern during the night on a SD card.
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