Respisense

Yes, yes and yes lol!

I had them for the gremlins and Chiara also has one. It was the Respisense that alerted us to Mercedes second apnoea at 5 weeks. The paeds at the hospital were very impressed with it, they hadn't seen them before.

They would be perfect for co-sleeping as they only monitor babies movements, unlike an Angelcare etc. which would pick up yours as well. In fact, they were originally designed by a father of triplets who wanted to sleep his babies in the same bassinette but wanted to be able to monitor their breathing individually.

I've found it even more useful with Chiara as she sleeps in a hammock and I can't use our TT movement monitor in the hammock.

The only down sides are that it can't go over front snapping cloth nappies coz the gap is not big enough to fit over the snaps. I tuck it down the front of my front snapping nappies but occasionally it comes loose and goes off coz it loses contact with her tummy.

Also if bubs is in another room sleeping you also need a sound monitor as I find with the doors closed I wouldn't neccessarily hear it going off, and at night it wouldn't be loud enough to wake me without the sound monitor. I just use the sound monitor off the TT one I have.

You can't even tell they're wearing them under clothes, and it hasn't seemed to bother any of my girls during tummy time either. I didn't use it till the cord stump had fallen off and dried up tho coz it sits right over the belly button.

Oh and I bought ours, I used them on the gremlins for 12 mths for night sleeps and about 8 mths for day sleeps (they started taking them off during the day when I stopped swaddling them) which worked out cheaper than renting. You might get a second hand one on TM tho.

That's great cheers. I ended up co-sleeping with Spencer but never had anything like that to use and never slept properly cos I was always scared I would roll on him or smoother in some way (although DH reasurred me we are programmed not to do that), will probably co sleep this time as well just cos they sleep so much better than way when they are newbies and I like my sleep. Would be good to use when in the front pack as well cos Spencer would fall asleep in there and I was constantly checking to see if he was still alive, makes things very stressful.
Think I might just buy one, have looked on trademe but there aren't any used ones listed at the moment and I can probably on sell it and get some of my money back later on.

i have one i was about to list on trademe . . .

this was the BEST thing i ever purchased!!!
i would reccomend to everyone! fantastic product so easy to use, i stopped using on J when he was around 7mths tho as he is a tummy sleeper and it would move it so the alarm would go off and id have a heart attack.

Thanks