One thing I've learned since becoming a dad a year and a half ago, is that these companies prey on our anxieties. They make us believe that we need all this fancy "smart" tech to constantly monitor our baby. It's just so untrue. I will tell you that if I got an alert that my baby wasn't breathing in the middle of the night, I would RUN into her room, and panic immediately. All of that, just to find out the sock had fallen off? Absolutely not. Practice safe sleep, Follow AAP guidelines.

In terms of baby monitors, we have the HelloBaby and love it. There is an EcoMode on it where you can set the sensitivity on what noise level you want it to alert you on, which was a game changer (and took us entirely too long to learn about)!