Sleep Tracking Device for Kids

If he's happy and you feel rested it was a good night. If he's cranky and you are tired, my guess would be it was not a good night. No device needed.

There's a wonderful device available!
It's called common sense.
When your baby wakes happy and playful, he is well rested.
If he cries and fusses during the night, doesn't stay asleep for long periods, and wakes cranky and difficult, he's NOT well rested.
I'm sure you'll figure this out :-)

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I always find it interesting that people need a device or app or pill to "fix" something or find something out instead of PARENTING.....Congrats on your newborn! Now, pay attention to him...you can get more information BEING THERE and participating than you can from a device!!!

How to tell he had a bad night?? He is CRANKY when he wakes up. Or he woke up numerous times during the night....

How to tell he had a good night?? He most likely slept the night through or longer than the night before....

Get a composition book. Get a pen. Write the date down and track his bowel movements and his wet diapers....his "happy" times - what were you doing??

The first year is the hardest year as you are GETTING TO KNOW YOUR CHILD - not a device or an app - and watch him grow more in the first year than he will the rest of his life (i.e, doubling in height, weight, sitting up, crawling, walking....babbling...)

Paying attention will show you better than any device can!!

I was the best sleep tracking device my son ever had.

B, I had to laugh at the link-- this is crazy. Sleep quality devices should be looked into for babies with apnea (it happens) and medically sensitive kids, and rightly so. I'd also suggest, though, that if the quality is so bad, the parent should be sleeping in the same room. Otherwise, an old-school baby monitor will be sufficient.

I should add-- devices are great for situations when you can take action. A monitor (or sleeping with doors open; cosleeping) allows you to tend to your child. Ask a thousand parents, though, about their child's sleep issues and they will tell you that they responded to what their child needed in that moment. Trust your child to signal to you when they need help. "Sleep quality" is something far more ambiguous; what would you do with this data? How could it help you proactively in your parenting? And what information can it really give you that you wouldn't have already just being attentive? These sorts of infant and child products are a huge industry, and there's no better customer than one who is insecure and anxious. They want your money. Think critically about this.

I'm fairly sure there are apps for that - there are apps for everything.
That being said I think a parent needs to pay attention to their child rather than looking at a device and interpreting data.
If baby is up all night - then it wasn't a good one.
I could tell because I was rocking, walking, soothing all night with him - so I didn't have a good night either.
I never needed a device/app to tell me that.

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When my children were infants, I was the device to track their sleep. In this day and age of ease, please take time to be there for your son. I did let both of my kids sleep with me until they were about 13 months old. Guess what, they moved to their own rooms with little trouble and they sleep great now.

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Now, to your question! I'm not sure you want to have electronic devices all that close to a baby all the time. I don't know what's out there, but I do know there are warnings about having cell phones near our heads at night and so on. Being a new mom is bewildering and it takes a lot of time and attention to get a handle on your child's patterns, likes/dislikes, developmental stages and so on. By the time you get it figured out, they grow and move into a new phase, and it starts all over again! I'm not sure what a device would tell you, and I don't think kids have set patterns anyway, especially newborns. So one night could be very different than the next. I think a standard baby monitor is perfectly adequate. If he's fussing briefly but settles down, he's just in a light state of wakefulness and you should leave him alone. He also needs to learn to calm himself down, which happens over time (not so much at 2 months though!). If he's really wailing, then you have to do something and figure out what he wants - food, cuddling, quiet, white noise, diaper change. Writing things down can be helpful if you notice that, say, a half hour after eating he has a belly ache or 2-3 a.m. he always needs to be fed. I think it's really important for you - as exhausted as you may be! - to develop really good powers of observation. That will help you when he breaks a pattern or just "seems off", which will clue you in to things like colds and teething and belly flu and so on. You will learn, in time, to trust your experience and your instinct. I think that devices will get in the way of that.

If there's anything radically off about your child, your pediatrician will help you decide if you need some sophisticated monitoring or sleep studies but I don't think the vast majority of infants ever need that. If there were a major neurological issue, you'd have a zillion other signs of it. For now, try to get some sleep and rest up when you can, and resist the urge to run to the baby's side every time he hiccups or makes sounds. A full fledged, wide-awake "I need you" cry should of course be answered, but all babies make little squeaks or burps that don't require your intervention.

You'll know he had a good night if he's alert for short periods of time, and you'll know he needs a nap if he's cranky or his eyes are closing. Even if you had info that said "he had a bad night", what you would do with it? The same thing you'd do if he was cranky! You'd put him down for another nap or take him for a walk outside in the stroller.

Good luck and try to enjoy!

One of my friends lost a grandchild to SIDS and when the couple had another child the doc gave them a tiny sticker style heart monitor to put on the baby. This way they could have less stress and could hear their baby's heart beat all the time. They took it off when he was about 5 months old.

I don't think there is any product like you're looking for. Babies don't stay awake much. They should be sleeping about 18 hours a day for the first few weeks then they should be taking 3 or so naps per day. They will need to eat every 3-4 hours until they're older so sleeping all night isn't what they do.

Your device would have to be work 24 hours per day is what I'm trying to say. Because they don't wake up, stay up, take a nap, stay up, go to bed, sleep all night. They just don't do that. If you think they aren't sleeping well when they're asleep then you need to talk to the doc about it. He will know what's normal sleep and what's not normal sleep.

Your baby will tell you whether or not he got a good night's sleep or good nap by how he acts. If he's happy or peaceful or just content, he got a good sleep. If he's fussy or crabby or you just can't seem to comfort him, chances are he did not get a good sleep.

He's not always going to get a good sleep. That's life. We just don't always get a good sleep. But if if it happens a lot, you might need to look into ways to change his environment or routine to help him get more sleep.

A baby two month's old is going to be all over the place with sleep. He has just had a huge milestone growth spurt at six weeks old when he changed and demanded more food to eat to go to sleep. Get a book on the first five years of a child and their changes. The book would/should break down the steps so you know where your child is. If he has many wet diapers and messy diapers he is thriving quite well. That is your gauge of growth.

Every few years companies come out with ways to "make a better experience" for the new parent and to take money. Yes, common sense and gutt feelings from the mother should override the computer technology and the eager companies for money. This is the time that you get to know this person you created and what they will be like for the rest of their lives. You participate and interact with them and they do the same back to you. They are not a clone of you but an individual with needs and wants that you are learning about.

So, go back to the drawing board of life and learn about your child and do it the "old fashioned way" of being there for your child.

the other S.

I use a sleep timer app to help track. But 2 months old might be too young to decide if it's been a good or bad night. He likely doesn't have much of a pattern right now anyway. Maybe wait to keep track until baby is closer to 4-6 months. Just follow his lead for now.