Newborn Parent’s Sleep Survival 101
The homecoming of your beloved newborn baby can be an amazing experience, you are adding a new member to your family and building beautiful memories in the process. However, whether it’s your first or fourth baby, there will be a period of significant adjustment to your lifestyle and everyday routine. For most parents, this period is only temporary and will not greatly disrupt your existing daily routine to much as you work to fit in your new responsibilities.
One thing that all newborn parents experience in the first few weeks of bring home their baby, is a lack of sleep. Between the nappy changes and late nightly feeds, you will no longer get the standard 8 uninterrupted hours you were used to before your baby’s arrival.
No parent can go without sleep for very long and a lack of good rest can quickly lead to paranoia and a fear of the worst. Repeated restless nights getting up to check that your newborn is alright, is warm or cool enough, is breathing normally or even when you are just lying in bed listening out for any sound of distress and waiting to be hastily awakened by your baby’s sudden cry, are all very common issues you’ll experience during the newborn phase. It can be overwhelming, exhausting and can very quickly take its toll on any parent’s health and patience, resulting in an unhealthy situation for both parent and child.
Parents of newborns, especially first timers, are constantly on the lookout for any solution that will help to comfort them that their precious baby is OK sleeping in their cot, most parents are looking for the reassurance that their baby is fine.
Choosing to get a baby monitor is a great idea. Choosing a baby monitor that also monitor’s breathing will give you a complete peace of mind when your baby is in their cot. A baby monitor will not only provide you with the added reassurance that everything is ok, it can also help you in redeveloping your ordinary sleeping habits. Survival is the key, you need to be well rested too and anything that can help you get a good night’s rest is worth it. You can’t be a superhero monitoring your newborn 24/7 and more importantly, you need to look after yourself so that you can look after your precious baby.
With all of this in mind, Oricom have a solution which works to reassure parents that they can still have a normal quality of life, reduce their worrying and stress and assists them in sleeping with a greater peace of mind.
Oricom’s Babysense2, a breathing movement monitor, lets you rest easy by monitoring the breathing movement rate of your sleeping baby. When used in conjunction with any of Oricom’s range of audio and video baby monitors, Babysense2 offers the ultimate in reassurance.
Babysense2 is suitable for infants from birth to one year of age. It features proven technology, used around the world for over two decades. The integrated system comprising of two major parts: firstly, the control unit which is placed on the outside of the cot or bassinet and connects to, secondly, the sensor pads which are placed under your baby’s mattress. The complete unit works to continually monitor the breathing movements of your sleeping baby.
Babysense2 is more than just a movement monitor, as it also works if your baby’s breathing movement slows to a rate of less than 10 breaths per minute, or cannot be detected for more than 20 seconds, an audible alarm will sound to alert you.
Because Oricom are communication experts, they focus on the best monitoring technologies to bring you peace of mind while your body rests and recovers. True peace of mind is about alleviating stress, and restoring the body back to full health so that parents are ready to conquer the challenge and stress often associated with living with a newborn.