The new Snuza Halo Mobile Baby Breathing Monitor gives parents wonderful peace of mind, knowing that they can simply clip the Snuza Halo onto baby's nappy anytime, anywhere and never give a second thought to breathing irregularity. But don't simply take our word for it, read this comprehensive review from one of our happy customers.
Our Rating - 8/10
Tested on Archie - 3 1/2 weeks
Our good points
- Easy to use
- Effective
- Gives peace of mind to new mums
- Great that it is portable
- Easy to monitor your baby with the use of the light indicators
- Great memory feature to keep track of your baby's breathing problems (if any)
- Alarm gets louder (or we thought it did when it went off on us) so you cannot miss if there is any problem
- Very sensitive to no movement in your baby
- Stays in place well - even with natural movements from your baby
- Seemed comfortable to wear and easy to attach - Archie didn't seem to mind
- Discreet to wear
Overall views on the Product
When first asked to try the new Snuza product I was very intrigued. We had previously looked into buying the AngelCare monitor which has a breathing sensor in a mat you place under the baby's sheet in the cot. We had looked at buying a product like this as we are first time parents and our main worry was "what if he stops breathing in the middle of the night and it's too late to help him by the time he wakes up". However, after taking NCT antenatal classed our teacher pointed out that it's not just at night you need to be aware of this problem as you cannot sit and watch your baby all day in your normal day to day life. The positive thing that the Snuza product had over the Angelcare monitor was that it was portable. I personally found this great when testing, it was nice to know when in the car and unable to see your baby clearly all the time you had peace of mind that if anything happened you would know straight away.
On first look the product does look quite big for a newborn to wear on the front of his nappy, however it was easy to attach and didn't seem to bother him at all (even when he wore it for a long time in the day) and was very discreet under his clothes. I did find the self test at the beginning rather fast to watch but not as bothered when you could see the product as working fine when shown by the green flashing light throughout use. The alarm was very distinct and loud so you couldn't miss it even if you were in a different room. Turning off the product when alarm was sounding wasn't as easy but I think if your baby had stopped breathing that may be less important to you. The vibrating feature to stimulate breathing after 15 seconds was such as reassuring feature especially in a very young newborn, as new parents we were aware that babies sometimes forget to breathe, this we thought would just help to remind him if this was to happen. Lastly, if you did experience any abnormalities in your baby's breathing the product even keeps track of how many times it had happened.
The not such good points we found
The only thing we found that worried us was when we heard the alarm sound. We were giving Archie his last bottle of the evening when the alarm went off, we knew he was fine as he was guzzling away. We went on to work out what happened and on further inspection found that the sensor probe may have momentarily come away from his skin during feeding which if this happened a lot may get annoying. However the other option may have been that he could have held his breath for 15 seconds whilst he was busy feeding so the alarm sounded. Overall it wasn't something that was a problem because it only happened once while we were testing this product and it could have helped save his life if he had stopped breathing, and it was good to know the product would work when it was needed. the product may become bulky and get in the way when the baby got bigger and started to move around more, however then the product would be needed less.
When talking to other mums about the product, they returned positive comments on the idea of the product.