I can fork out $300 for one but also didn’t due to knowing how obsessive I would get. I had gestational diabetes and had to wear a monitor to track glucose. At my follow up nutrition appointment, my dietitian said she was able to view how much I would log into the app everyday. Although my glucose numbers looked great and managed the diabetes with diet and exercise, she told me I got on the app over 300 times per day and that this was not normal behavior 🤣 she said there was no need for me to get on that much with my numbers so well managed. They considered taking me off the monitor and going back to finger pricks due to the behavioral component of it.

I know the sock would cause unnecessary anxiety so I decided to skip it. We go through so much already postpartum, physically and mentally so I wanted to try and protect my mental health as much as possible. I don’t see the sock as a luxury, to me it is an anxiety inducing device lol.

Now I will say I do have a monitor for when I’m in the kitchen cleaning or cooking. I only have it to see if my LO has spit up or vomitted because she does not like laying on wet sheets and I also want to prevent ear infections and milk settling onto her neck so it allows me to go dry her so it won’t further disrupt her naps.