Alarms

I guess it was good that Jack had his doctor visit when he did. I would have never taken him off that monitor had I understood that he was at a greater risk for SIDS. It scares me to death just thinking about it. Last night he had 4 alarms (or was it 3?) within about a half hour time span (meaning that he stopped breathing for too long of a time). Then it sounded again this morning when I was holding him. EEEKKK!

I'm not sure what's going on. There is a self test that I need to do to make sure he's not having false alarms. That first alarm scared the crap out of me. Justin and I have never gotten out of our bed so fast. The first time it sounded 3 times. The machine is set to go off if he stops breathing for a set number of seconds, but I don't know what that number is. I told Dr. Henry that I knew Jack stopped breathing for 7 seconds one night because we were face to face and I counted. He said that that was pretty normal and nothing to get too excited about. He said it's when they go 15+ seconds is when we need to get concerned. My guess is that it's set for at least 15 seconds and will sound after that. The first alarm went off for probably 3 seconds - I'm guessing a beep/second. The second one sounded 2 beeps and the last one (or 2) were just one or two beeps. It was enough to scare the crap out of me, I know that much.

The first thing I'll do today when I get home is reset the machine to make sure we're not getting false alarms. Either way - I'm more than thankful for this machine than ever before!