Naps...please help!

ITA Rocky. There is no known cause of SIDS. It used to be don't put your baby on their back, then it was their side and now it's "back to sleep"...dont' put your baby on their tummy. When really nothing prevents it. It seems they take the greater percentage of infants who died on their tummy, etc and just go with that.

A co-worker of Dh's has a Baby Sense monitor and when her baby was just a few weeks old it went off in the middle of the night. When she went to check on him his face was blue - she picked him up and he choked a little then started breathing again. They think he was choking on some spit up or something. So they do work - in this case it could have saved her baby's life.

Sorry - I should have specified again that I was talking about them being a crock for SIDS. Yes, they start beeping after about 10 seconds, to warn you if your baby stops breathing for longer periods of time, and in that particular case, was good to have. What I meant was, if SIDS strikes, it's not a mattress pad that's going to save the baby, and getting it just for the purpose of preventing SIDS won't do a lick of difference.

Oh ok I see. I guess it really wouldn't help with an actual case of SIDS, but so many people group suffocation in with it so I thought you were saying they just don't work.