Customer Ratings & Reviews

To start, let me clarify that the “baby” this was tried on is already 16 months old. There are four socks but only one is for toddlers. The other three won’t be used for her. My daughter likes it but she thinks that it’s best suited for younger babies and that’s why I’m looking forward to trying it on the new grandbaby coming in a couple of months. She used the previous model and absolutely loved it. It actually helped her with her anxiety as a first-time parent. As for this one, she stopped using it after the fourth night because her toddler would remove it and wake himself up along with mom, dad and whoever else might be in the house. Realizing it would play a very loud lullaby when it wasn’t on his foot, he would make sure it didn’t stay there for long just to listen to it. Younger babies shouldn’t experience the same issue. Be warned though. The data gathered through the app can provide parents with good insight about their baby sleep quality, which can potentially help moms and dads adjust beds, room temperature or even discuss with their health provider about what might be going on with the baby. As a witness, I can say that the Owlet Dream Sock Baby Monitor is more useful for new but not so much for more veteran parents who knows what to expect and are less anxious about their babies while they sleep. I recommend it for the former but not for the latter. It is also best for babies under 12 months.

Packaging: The sock was packaged with everything separated nicely and in the order you needed them for set up. Setup: There is an app that goes along with this sock. One of the selling points for me. As a side note make sure you download the exact application stated on the package. Owlet has multiple apps for different socks. My first go around with setting up the sock I downloaded the wrong app since I only searched for Owlet and not the exact wording on the box. I am not sure why they have multiple apps but it made it a little confusing. Once I downloaded the correct application set up went fairly smoothly connecting the base to the sock and to my home wifi. Usage: This product is for children up to 18 months so provided are 4 socks 1 pair for infants and one pair for toddlers. This is great so you can switch feet and once your child gets bigger you can use the bigger sock so there isn’t any discomfort. My only issue with the socks is that both the infant and toddler socks where used Velcro to keep it on. For infants this was fine, but my curious toddler was not having it a different way to secure it would have been better. This was only made worse by both my phone and the base unit playing a loud lullaby to let us know that the sock had lost connection to our baby. There is no way to turn this down or off completely. I contacted support just to make sure I wasn’t missing something in the app but they confirmed there wasn’t any way to adjust the sound on the dream sock. So if you are ok waking up in a panic thinking something happened then this would be ok. We absolutely did not like waking up to find all that happened was the sock came off. Data: The best part is the data you get from the sock. How well your child is sleeping if they are tossing in deep sleep etc. This was helpful to know because we directly saw correlations to our child’s mood based on sleep patterns. Also, if your child is sick you will also see how well or bad they are sleeping and medicate accordingly. Maybe they aren’t breathing as well as they should all these are pulled into the app and are very easy to read.