It’s been some years since I’ve had to deal with my own infants and the natural fear that all parent feel about keeping their baby safe especially when he or she sleeps at night or for naps. My first baby was born with Pierre Robin syndrome and came home on an apnea monitor. As you can imagine, even with a monitor that was suppose to tell me if she stopped breathing, I got little actual sleep the first eight months of her life.
When my second child came along he was perfectly healthy and had no problems. You’d think I’d not feel as frightened since I was an experienced mother by this time and had dealt with an ill infant successfully. The truth is I was just as frightened and perhaps more so. Before my daughter came I assumed all would be well. Of course I knew that tragedies happened but I just didn’t think they would happen to me.
I think that’s a perfectly normal and even healthy attitude that most people take when it comes to any possibility of harm coming to their children. We all know there are dangers in the world but it would be hard to send them off to school on the first day if we dwelled too much on such things. It can cause just as much harm for a child to be overprotected because of our fears as not protected enough.
As difficult as it was to have a sick baby, one thing that eased my mind was her apnea monitor. I knew I’d be waked up with an alarm if anything happened to her breathing. Oddly enough the very health of my son that caused him not to need such a monitor actually made me more anxious! At that time, there was no such device as a baby monitor with a camera. Of course I had the walkie-talkie monitors that were available then, but I couldn’t glance over and see him. Needless to say I spent another eight months not sleeping well.
The good news in that both my children were fine. A lot of my worry was probably unnecessary however normal. Luckily today a new parent has many alternatives that simply weren’t available at the time I had my children. A baby monitor with camera would have certainly made that first eight months with my second child much easier. Being able to tell at a glance he was OK would have eased my mind considerable.
I decided to build this site for all you new parents out there or perhaps not so new, who will rest better for being able to see your baby at a glance. That first year is full of wonderful events and worry is a natural human emotion regarding our children but there is no reason not to ease it where possible. I hope finding the right baby monitor with camera will ease your worries and allow you to enjoy more of the wonder of your child’s first year.