When Baby Tech Helps—and When It Adds Pressure

[gentle music] I wanna go through each technology device that are going to be used for babies, and tracking babies, and things that are out on the market, and we can basically say yay or nay to whether we like them.

So the first one is smart monitors or wearables.

So I think this would be the ones that like the monitor tracks your baby and will tell you whether they're awake or whether they've moved.

Yay, as long as you're not obsessing over, um, like wake windows and all the timing things.

Yes.

I'm gonna say yay on this one too.

I...

Mainly because someone had mentioned for the smart monitor that it can also get cute little videos of you greeting your baby in the morning, and I just think that's cute.

Okay, that is cute.

The other reason I like it is because I've heard that, and this might be an upgrade for it, but that it will tell you percentage of time that baby's on, like they're the right side versus the left side, which for how often we deal with head shape issues, like that's invaluable info I think.

[laughs] We can like, we could set measurable goals on that.

I agree.

We can actually, yeah, from a PT perspective, we're getting data.

Okay, second one I'm curious about is, ooh, the sleep and wake window tracking.

Pass.

For me it was a pass.

Yeah.

Same.

This one, feeding apps where it tells you like ounces, minutes pumping.

Like I have seen parents, they have their little one and then they will like start the timer.

And I don't know-

Yes

...

if that's common, because I don't do a lot of lactation work, so.

I will say yay, especially in the early days.