e-Snooze Baby Sleep Tracker

I have been using this now for a few weeks, as a first time parent I was concerned about the sleep pattern of my little one and wanted to make sure he was getting enough sleep. Download of the app was easy, I charged the sleep pad, plugged the receiver in and I was set up for the first night. I knew my son was not the best sleeper but after the first night I was astonished at the results; it showed he had slept for a few hours, was awake for a lot longer than I ever thought and also showed he was out of the crib, where had my baby gone? I thought it might just be the first night of getting used to it so we carried on. Every night it looks like my son is out of his crib for a period of time, this can’t be as I sleep next to him and he’s only 5 months. Did he move off the pad - no he was in exactly the same place as when I put him down. I am an anxious mom and I wake every hour or 1/2 hour to make sure he’s ok and he doesn’t move. So it’s not quite accurate when tracking his sleep. There is also the breathing function which is monitored, these gave some very worrying results, showing my sons breathing rate was a lot lower than it should be, so I did some more investigating and everything seemed normal. The results initially worried me but I know my son is fine. I feel this product made me more anxious initially as it has not been accurate, instead of helping me sleep a little more knowing my son is ok, it has made me more anxious.

Initial setup was simple but problematic as it requires a wireless connection to a router to download firmware, which failed a couple of times despite having full signal to the router. Once set up, the super-bright glowing green ring light on the hub became distracting at night with seemingly no option to turn the light off. I had a few issues where it detected my baby was asleep when he wasn't in his cot, and other times when he was apparently out of bed when he was most definitely asleep in his cot. With no ability to delete sections of data, the only way to clear this was to remove the device and set it up from scratch again... cue firmware download issues again. When you get it running, it's interesting to see how your baby sleeps, and curiously check their heart rate and breathing rate, but with no alerting features it feels a bit redundant. More of a reflection tool than a safety tool. That said, you can only view details of the previous night's sleep after 11am the following day, which feels a bit pointless when the "night mode" ends at 7am (again seemingly no way to change this), and you want to use the data to plan the morning and day for your baby. The battery lasts a long time in the mat at around 3 weeks on a full charge, and it's unobtrusive in the cot, but aside from occasional curiosity I've not really found much use for it. It's something that could do a lot more. It's neither a safety device, nor detailed enough to be an analytical device, and too slow to provide meaningful data for the day ahead. Hopefully they'll improve it as it has a lot of potential, but right now it's definitely something I forget about.

I cannot use this product as it won’t connect to the WiFi on numerous WiFi accounts and via numerous smart devices.