Angelcare Baby Movement and Sound Monitor Delux Plus, Blue Review

I’m a first-time father who’s a worrier by nature, so this product is in some ways a godsend. It is well made, and well featured, and I may some day thank its makers for saving my daughter’s life.

I’m happy but not thrilled with this. For the sake of skimming, here are my concerns in bullet form:

1) I found it quite difficult to set the pad sensitivity ’sweet spot.’ The sensitivity dial goes from 0-5 (though the manual notes 1-5…perhaps 0 means the pad is turned off entirely, but this isn’t mentioned, I don’t think). When it was set at a more sensitive level (say, 2.5), it would detect movement even with no baby in the crib and no-one within a foot of it (and without an obvious source of vibration). With it set to a lower sensitivity level (1.5), we had lots of false alarms. The small dial range in between these points gets close to the right setting but doesn’t get rid of the problems. This is NOT a deal breaker for me, and I’m sure experience with the product will help – but it is a bit frustrating for me. If you follow the spacing suggestions from the manual, there is a fairly large gap (perhaps 10 inches) between the two motion pads. With a 20 inch baby, there’s a lot of the baby that isn’t on the sensor. We just put the pads closer together, but I prefer to set things up so they look exactly as they do in the diagrams provided for fear that I’m using the product incorrectly.

2) I think the instruction manual is AWFUL. This might sound snotty, but 3 people sharing 6 degrees spent *hours* trying to get this set up. My wife (admittedly, chock full of new-mom hormones) was in tears, convinced she was an idiot (she’s not. If you’re reading this, I love you honey, and think you’re very smart). I don’t point out the degrees to sound cocky, and hope I don’t come across as a jerk. But we are *not* stupid, illiterate consumers, and despite being fairly bright people, set up was far from easy.

One problem is simply the formatting of the instructions: I’m used to instructions that use “Step 1″ and “step 2″ style prompts actually leading you in a direction with an end point. These are more independent nuggets about what the product can do. Getting it up and running is actually quite straightforward – but it’s much easier if you rely on your intuition rather than trying to follow the guidelines.

3) You have to have a pretty good memory for turning things on and off! Obviously, if you remove the baby from the crib so you can feed it, the motion pads will interpret this as something to be worried about! It would be nice if there was a way to turn off the nursery unit without it causing the parents’ units to sound a warning that the nursery component is switched off! I totally understand why it sounds that alert, but if you’re woken at 3am by the ‘need to feed’, remembering to turn off the two parents’ units plus the nursery unit, and then remembering to turn all three back on…well, let’s just say it’s easy to forget!

4) As one or two others have commented, the sound through the monitors is not terribly loud, even with the volume on full.

I would buy this unit again and don’t intend these comments to put others off buying it. I would *highly* recommend getting this set up well before your due date so that you’re not trying to get it functioning when you’re sleep deprived and stressed. Perhaps that was my mistake!

Angelcare Baby Movement and Sound Monitor Delux Plus, Blue Feature

• 2 parents unit 2 charging bases 1 nursery unit 2 sensor pads 2 AC adapters 8 NiMH rechargeable batteries
• Nursery unit has a soft nightlight and room thermometer
• Plastique
• The sound monitor operates on the 927 MHz frequency so there is no interference from 2.4 GHz equipment

Angelcare Baby Movement and Sound Monitor Delux Plus, Blue Overview

Angelcare AC401 DELUXE Double Baby Movement & Sound Monitor. The Angelcare Movement Sensor will detect all of your baby’s movement and alert you if no movement is detected within 20 seconds. The Monitor also transmits all baby’s sounds. All functions and options are programmable from the parents unit for more convenience and control. The Nursery Unit includes a soothing night light. The Angelcare model operates on both 900 MHz and 2.4 GHz frequencies. The sound monitor operates on the 900 MHz frequency so there is no interference from 2.4 GHz equipment. The monitor has 8 channels and an 820′ range.WHY THIS MONITOR?- It combines a quality sound monitor and a movement monitor in a single system – Whether baby is awake or sound asleep, Angelcare under-the-mattress Sensor Pad will detect all of her movements – Rechargeable Parents Unit (4 AAA rechargeable batteries included) FEATURES:- Extra Parents Unit: You only need to program one parents unit the other will automatically set up. – Under-the-mattress Sensor Pad detects every baby’s movement baby makes – Alarm sounds after 20 seconds if absolutely no movement is detected – Adjustable sensitivity – Battery or AC adapter operated – Optional ‘tic” sound to hear baby’s movements – 8 channels to minimize interference – Automatically converts to battery in case of power failure – Sound lights to see and hear baby’s sounds – Low battery indicator – Practical soothing night-light. – Choice between voice activation or continuous sound reception – Nursery room temperature display on the Parents unit. – Vibration option on Parents Unit when alarm (dependent on models)

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Customer Reviews

Some problems…. – Anonymous – Connecticut
As a first time mom, I was (and still am) a little paranoid that my son will stop breathing at night, which is why I bought the monitor. Set up was easy and it seemed to work fine (although other than a couple false alarms that scared the heck out of me, there were never any true breathing emergencies). Okay, here is the big problem….the sensor pad is only about 12×12, which means that once your child starts to scoot around in their sleep (which for us happened around 3 months), then it is useless. Plus our pediatrician said that there isn’t substantial evidance that these monitors actually prevents SIDS deaths. We now use the Summer Infant video monitor and are thrilled. I still worry about breathing…but I guess that’s part of being a new mom!

Best Piece of Mind!! – C. Faust – Brooklyn, NY United States
I love this product. personally i think this was one of the greatest ideas ever, especially if your a worried mother like i am. I bought this product for all 3 of my children, and it was the best piece of mind ever. especially for newborns when there breathing looks all crazy. its very senstive so if your child moves to the end of the crib the alarm may set off. thats happend to me plenty of time but i guess its good so you can move your child back to the center of the crib making sure they dont bump there heads or smother themselves with a bumper protecter. great product! i highly reccommend this product to any mother, who needs a good night of sleep.

A small price to pay – dom1992 –
First a little background on myself and the condition this product is supposed to help prevent. I’ve worked in the medical field for over 20 years and I’ve had the misfortune to treat well over a dozen SIDS cases. One of the big knocks you’ll see against this product on other review sites is that it will do nothing to prevent SIDS. Such reviews are usually followed by a personal story about how the reviewer had a child who died from SIDS or they had a friend who had a child who died of SIDS, and that they were told by the doctor that there was absolutely nothing that could have been done to save the child…that even if they had been there to witness the child stop breathing, that the child still would have died. I’m sorry to have to break this to everyone, but that’s simply untrue. All of us in the medical profession, from doctors to nurses to paramedics, are taught in our basic training to tell parents this. I’ve told parents this countless times myself. Parents are already grieving enough when they lose a child, the last thing they need is to spend the rest of their life thinking they could have done something. The truth is that if someone had been there at the moment the baby stopped breathing, something MIGHT have been able to be done to save them. We just don’t know because every case is different. Remember that SIDS is a diagnosis of exclusion. It’s not a disease or other pathological process that “shuts down all the vital organs one by one” (as one reviewer claimed). What this means is that if a baby under 1 year old dies for no other identifiable reason, they’re automatically stamped “SIDS,” case closed. A good number of babies who die of “SIDS” are believed to die from some unexplained sudden apnea, whether it be too many blankets smothering the child or whether the baby simply “forgot” to breath, as some doctors believe. If a child suffers some sudden period of apnea, a person who is there immediately MAY be able to save them through waking the child or through mouth to mouth breathing. That is medical fact based on years of research. Hospital don’t use 00 infant apnea monitors for no reason. If they did no good no one would use them. This product, when used correctly, functions as a very suitable apnea monitor, and at a cheaper price.

All that is my way of saying we love this monitor. With my medical background and having witnessed the tragedy of SIDS many times, I’m hyper paranoid when it comes to our new daughter. I’ll do anything and spend any amount of money to make sure I’ve done everything within my power to keep her safe. This product gives us peace of mind and allows us to sleep a little better at night. We’ve had no false alarms so far and the sound quality seems just fine. The night light function is pretty cool too. My only complaint would be it’s not the easiest thing to set up initially. Sit down with a cup of coffee and be prepared to play with a lot to get it working just right.

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