We used the Owlet 2 for our daughter 6 years ago and didn’t know how we were going to live without it once she out grew it! She was born prematurely and this amazing device gave us immense peace of mind. We always practiced safe sleeping but looking over in the dark and seeing that soft pulsing green light made you know everything was ok. The sock was extremely helpful during colds since she always had severe upper respiratory infections that required nebulizer treatments. We could safely monitor her heart rate and oxygen levels. I’m writing this review because we almost did not purchase the outlet sleep sock for our son since we heard that there were changes made from the Owlet 2 and it didn’t function the same way in real time. I took a leap of faith and bought ... MoreWe used the Owlet 2 for our daughter 6 years ago and didn’t know how we were going to live without it once she out grew it! She was born prematurely and this amazing device gave us immense peace of mind. We always practiced safe sleeping but looking over in the dark and seeing that soft pulsing green light made you know everything was ok. The sock was extremely helpful during colds since she always had severe upper respiratory infections that required nebulizer treatments. We could safely monitor her heart rate and oxygen levels. I’m writing this review because we almost did not purchase the outlet sleep sock for our son since we heard that there were changes made from the Owlet 2 and it didn’t function the same way in real time. I took a leap of faith and bought the product and I couldn’t be happier that I did! While changes were made, it still functions pretty much the same although the oxygen average is on a 10 minute delay, the heart rate is real time and it immediately lets you know if your baby needs assistance. We received a purple alert not a week ago when our babies heart rate climbed above the acceptable limits and were able to take him to the emergency room for treatment. We never would have known that there was an issue otherwise. RSV followed and we were able to keep a watchful eye, monitor his oxygen levels, and once again, know when we needed to take him for help in the middle of the night. This is worth every penny and more. Don’t hesitate for another minute, it will be the best thing you ever purchased for your child!

This device is literally a life saver. I know we are using it outside of the capacity of what it’s designed for, but my baby was sent home from the hospital with a prescription for an oxygen monitor and the thing they gave us was just horrendous. It was the typical sticker that wraps around the foot with a short cable that connects to a massive screen and device. Our baby would have been tethered to this stupid device that constantly malfunctioned and beeped. It was a nightmare. We ordered the Owlet in a panic and gave it a try and had been by far the best device we could have ever asked for. I would recommend this to any parent of an infant with any breathing issues or if they have any reason to believe their baby needs extra monitoring. This device works ... MoreThis device is literally a life saver. I know we are using it outside of the capacity of what it’s designed for, but my baby was sent home from the hospital with a prescription for an oxygen monitor and the thing they gave us was just horrendous. It was the typical sticker that wraps around the foot with a short cable that connects to a massive screen and device. Our baby would have been tethered to this stupid device that constantly malfunctioned and beeped. It was a nightmare. We ordered the Owlet in a panic and gave it a try and had been by far the best device we could have ever asked for. I would recommend this to any parent of an infant with any breathing issues or if they have any reason to believe their baby needs extra monitoring. This device works seamlessly and is so easy to use. I do wish there was an option to set your own parameters for when it would alert but that requires the prescription model (which we could have pursued but decided the over the counter model really was sufficient). I also wish the app gave you the option to temporarily pause the monitoring- when my baby wakes up and we go for a feed or diaper change the base will alert that it can’t get a good read because he’s kicking around. Not a problem at all except the base is by our bed and my husband is trying to sleep so I wish I had the option to deactivate it from the app instead of only having the option to press the base to temporarily deactivate. But again, 5/5 totally recommend. Also phenomenal customer service- I called multiple times the day we were discharged from the hospital and during set up and was met by a friendly and helpful representative who answered my questions and was great. Superb product and customer service experience.

I remember hearing about the Owlet when it first came out and thinking “Wow, I will definitely get this for my baby someday.” Cut to years later finally being pregnant and creating our registry, the Owlet was the first thing we added. My paramedic husband personally knows people whose kid’s lives were saved by the Owlet (though the FDA has ruled that Owlet can’t market the device as life-saving, which I do agree with, more on that later). First and foremost, the device setup was time consuming and headache-inducing, two things new parents don’t want to deal with. Finally, just when I had gotten everything to connect and thought I was home free, the app came up with an error message - I needed to set it up through a newer app and completely start over. This app, ... MoreI remember hearing about the Owlet when it first came out and thinking “Wow, I will definitely get this for my baby someday.” Cut to years later finally being pregnant and creating our registry, the Owlet was the first thing we added. My paramedic husband personally knows people whose kid’s lives were saved by the Owlet (though the FDA has ruled that Owlet can’t market the device as life-saving, which I do agree with, more on that later). First and foremost, the device setup was time consuming and headache-inducing, two things new parents don’t want to deal with. Finally, just when I had gotten everything to connect and thought I was home free, the app came up with an error message - I needed to set it up through a newer app and completely start over. This app, worryingly, had very negative reviews in the app store. An hour and several Reddit threads later, I figured out how to reset the connection and get everything up and running, only to find that the functionality in this new app was…lacking. As in, almost no options to speak of. No place to change what notifications I get or how loud they are. No way to add in other family members. No way to pause the stupid chimes for an extended period of time as I struggled to get the sock on my wiggly baby. We used the sock for a few nights, then gave up in frustration. Since we had a newborn, that meant getting up several times a night to change and feed him. Each time, we would move him from his bassinet to the nursery to do those tasks. And inevitably half the time the sock would lose connection just going across the hall. Or when he wiggled too much during a diaper change. Or if we held him too close. Remember how the app had no options for customizing these notifications? Each time this happened, both of our phones and the base would go off, loudly, waking anyone (including dogs) who was sleeping. It wasn’t just anyone in the house either. Because there were no separate accounts, if I got a connection alert in the middle of the night during a diaper change, so did my husband working a 24 hour shift. The precious little sleep he could get on the job was being taken away by unnecessary alerts. I became paranoid about alerts going off all the time and began to lose sleep until I told myself it was ridiculous to keep doing so. We stopped using the sock for a while until our baby started getting congested. Out of concern for his well being, we did use it again for 2 weeks to make sure his breathing was still ok. We knew we might get awoken by unnecessary alerts but it was worth it for his safety. And that is the benefit of the Owlet - greater safety. Certainly not “better sleep” as they market (also, where are the in-depth analytics for sleep behavior? If that’s your big draw now, give me some charts or something). But safety DOES NOT mean you can throw the sock on your baby and go on autopilot or do something downright dangerous (like cosleeping) without consequence. It’s just a pulse oximeter. It’s not a baby minder. Your best resource in keeping your baby healthy and safe is YOU. The Owlet is just a tool in this quest for safety. Overall, the Owlet is a fantastic idea and I was so excited to have one. But a truly, truly terrible app and some glaring design flaws with the communication with the base unit have made it unusable except in extreme cases. Please, please fix your app. I’d love to use this sock every night and have a better idea of how my baby is sleeping and actually get some safety benefit from it. But my sleep is precious too.