Owlet monitor fucking terrible.
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Oh I am so so sorry to hear this has happened! It must have been awful for you but you are not a bad person especially if you didn’t know ! I understand you’ve studied and know the disadvantages of the sleep training stuff, but you physically couldn’t of helped it happening, have you thought of a diff camera ? One that isn’t connected to your phone ? But has the camera and monitor you can put on the bedside ? I have one that’s just a cheap bog standard one but it’s been amazing! I can send the link over ? No internet required and it’s pretty loud ! Xx
This was happening to me and I just uninstalled and reinstalled the app, hasn't happened since. Maybe instead of a bed in there, you can try the old fashion baby monitors that just do sound.
We have a cheap hello baby monitor from Amazon. Might be worth trying as it's not wifi connected? But also I don't do CIO but I know there's been times I've been so tired that I definitely slept through some crying at night. It's human and you're not a bad mom for having tech fail. Maybe your roommate can text you if he hears the baby crying as a second way to wake up?
Our Nanit has been doing something similar. It’s so frustrating!!!
@Kerri yes please send me that link. 100% getting a new monitor today
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You're definitely not a bad mom! Honestly I didn't want a wifi camera for that exact reason. I swear by the kidsneed monitor. It's cheap and effective.
I’m guessing it uses wifi since you said your use your phone? Maybe your wifi hasn’t been great at night and that’s why it’s being weird. And maybe a setting was accidentally put on to make it turn off after a while. Our monitor did that our son was playing with it and turned the screen timer on where it would turn off after 15 min
And definitely not a bad mom. Yo u can only do so much. And if you had no idea that it was happening then there’s nothing you could have done. All you can do is just move forward. Hopefully a new monitor will help. And in the future you might need to do other things to help baby sleep as well. CIO definitely isn’t fun. But sometimes parents have to do it and you arent bad or good for doing it
@Kerri thank you
Hey I have the Owlet too. I get how you feel because I was extremely frustrated about this about a month ago. The same thing that happened to you happened to me but luckily I randomly woke up 10 minutes into baby girl crying. They problem is something you can’t even fix. It’s a wifi “issue”. If your wifi for whatever reason has a little hiccup, you have to reopen the app to get it synched with your phone again. We learned that was very unreliable. So now we use the owlet for the monitoring, keep the camera on just to be able to view on phone but not depend on it, and bought another baby monitor with the physical display that we keep on at night.
That sounds so frustrating and scary. I found that a cheap monitor that doesn’t run off of WiFi are the most reliable. This is the one we are using, if the camera gets unplugged the remote will start beeping.
The kidsneed baby monitor from Amazon is also affordable and really great with night vision and other great features. We love it. And you can buy extra cameras to link to it
I've never gotten background to work. I leave the video on and leave it plugged in at night. I've never had an issue that way. I like to just look over at the camera without unlocking my phone.
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I’ve only had issues with the monitor when the WiFi in the house is bad. I’d recommend getting a new monitor entirely so you have one and then reaching out to customer service regarding it
Mine does this all the time. I hate it. We have great internet and it still does it.
I’d sell it and buy a reliable monitor. I would be devastated if my baby ever cried himself to sleep.
Mine plays on background for like 2 hours then randomly shuts off so I don’t trust my owlet one bit!