Not sure what to do... baby monitor alarm going off at night...

HELP!!!

I am not sure what to do... My baby monitor alarm has gone off a number of times in the night for the past two nights. I have a tommee tippee ultimate reassurance monitor, so one sensor pad. After the alarms the first night, I thought it might have been positioned funny, so I double checked it, and during his day naps, no alarms...

When the alarm goes off it beeps maybe once or twice, then he moves so it stops... I didnt even hear the first alarm so I assume it barely beeped at all... although last night the beeps were long enough to wake me the first time, and I didnt sleep for the rest of the night so I heard the rest too...

Last night it went off a couple of times. The first time I ran in to check on DS, his room is next to ours, and found him, sound asleep... In a different position to how I put him to bed, but still positioned over the mat (I think). ... It went off a number of times again in the remainder of the night, and every time I checked, he was fine...

One thing I can think, is that he went into such a deep sleep, and was not right over the monitor that it didnt pick him up, and the alarm made him move enough, and to a lighter sleep state. He has had some panadol for the past two night as he is cutting his second tooth, so maybe that has something to do with it? And I have been using sm33 on his gums... He has been a bit off his food too, but I put that down to the tooth... Cause he is otherwise, pretty happy.

Should I take him to the GP? or my Pead??? Should I be worried (cause I am :redface:)??? Thanks

Hmmm... I dunno.... the only time our monitor has gone off was when we were using one pad, and he would move up the bed off it.

Then we started using both the pads. Does yours come with two pads? If it does, maybe try it one night with both of them, and see if it happens again. If it does - then worry ;)

ETA - I just remembered that ours beeps at us if the batteries are low... maybe check the batteries too?

I'd pack away the monitor LOL. But that's just me! plus I don't know if there's a specific reason you still need to use it at 5 months.. so perhaps just ignore me :)

Is there a reason to use the monitor at 5 months??? Mummy Paranoia!!!!!!! :lol: I like lying in bed watching the little light flash on the monitor to know he is ok... :redface: DH thinks I am crazy ...

We only have the one pad... so maybe it is just him being just off it and it doesnt pick him up...

Ruf - I was still using the monitor with DS when he was 20 months.. ;)

I found with the Angelcare monitor that it always went off if she was up against a side or in a corner. A couple of times it went off when she was in the middle and I assume it was because she was in a deep sleep as she moved with the beeping and it stopped. I guess without the monitor I just wouldn't have known she was in a deep sleep, but it's nice to know it helped if she actually did need a little kickstart, so to speak. I was happy to keep checking when it went off and of course, my own personal need for reassurance just gradually went away as she got older until I was comfortable with not using it anymore.

My fear with a monitor would be it crying wolf. I'd end up sleeping through the beeps figuring it was another false alarm.

That's one of the reasons I didn't use a monitor, even though DD was on a monitor for apnea in the NICU for 3 weeks :) I was worried the monitor would fuel any mummy paranoia I had hehe.

you could always have him in your room, then you get to watch a sleeping baby and know they're ok instead of watching a little light. :) It's recommended to have them in your room for at least 6 months with the SIDS thing.

My fear with a monitor would be it crying wolf. I'd end up sleeping through the beeps figuring it was another false alarm.

That's one of the reasons I didn't use a monitor, even though DD was on a monitor for apnea in the NICU for 3 weeks :) I was worried the monitor would fuel any mummy paranoia I had hehe.

you could always have him in your room, then you get to watch a sleeping baby and know they're ok instead of watching a little light. :) It's recommended to have them in your room for at least 6 months with the SIDS thing.

Liz, DH said to ditch it too... But last night, I repositioned the pad, changed that batteries (again) and checked all the cables, and we had an alarm free night.... :clap: ... So, something I did fixed it right on up!

I would love to have DS back in our room, he was there till he grew out of his bassinet, but we just cant fit him in now, as our room is tiny :( ... So for now, I will keep up with the monitor.

Thanks for helping me through this!!!

I'm glad you had a good night Ruf :hug:

Yay, glad you fixed it up :)

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Is there a reason to use the monitor at 5 months??? Mummy Paranoia!!!!!!! :lol: I like lying in bed watching the little light flash on the monitor to know he is ok... :redface: DH thinks I am crazy ...

We only have the one pad... so maybe it is just him being just off it and it doesnt pick him up...

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I always use my angelcare till they move into a bed.. I like watching the little light flash too :D

I have heard the one pad ones have more false alarms and i do think thats because bub moves around a lot..

Glad you fixed the problem and had a good night

glad you had a better night, i also use a mvt monitor and i think we will til he moves to a bed. we had a few nights with lots of false alarms, ended up at the dr who said nothing was wrong...
i found we had a sheepskin under hissheet (was winter) and when we took this off the alarms stopped...
you keep it as long as you need it honey and i hope no more alarms!