Owlet Dream Sock Smart Baby Monitor, Better Sleep for Baby & You

I always got mixed reviews on whether this was worth the price but after having my baby I can tell you I will always recommend. Sleep is difficult enough with a newborn but this at least gives you peace of mind so the sleep you do get is not riddled with anxiety. The app was super easy to set up, the sock was a little difficult at first but now it’s easy peasy. I didn’t have a problem with connecting it to my WiFi. I keep the base next to my bed in the same room as my baby so I’m not 100% sure on the range. It comes with 2 different sizes of left and right sock. It tracks heart rate, O2, and sleep cycle without a subscription. I know it’s a hefty price tag but I personally think it’s worth every penny.

This gave me such peace of mind with my newborn. She's only 4lbs so sometimes it goes off without actually needing to, but over all I do recommend it and I'm so glad I spent the money on it. I barely slept the first few nights because I was worried something would happen to my baby while I slept. Knowing an alarm would wake me up if anything was wrong made me feel more calm and at peace. It did give us a little trouble connecting to Bluetooth for a bit but we got it eventually.

I was unable to get the app to connect originally, customer service is good though and they were able to help. The 3 stars really comes down to the poor range. It says up to 100 ft but I’ve had this disconnect 5ft from the base station. Nothing like trying to change a poopy diaper or calm a screaming baby and having this stupid thing start beeping every 30 seconds to push you over the edge. The fine print says some things about how it will struggle to read if the babies feeding??? So it’ll go off then too and you have to take it off or turn it off every time you do that unless you want it to screen. Like a Fitbit that doesn’t work when you’re drinking, the base station thing is a flaw alone, but the connection issues are terrible. Also the base station has a battery but only enough battery life to yell at you that it’s unplugged. If the connection is so terrible and I have to carry this around my home atleast give it significant battery life. Update: 2:30am some day in dec 2025, losing track of time. I’m 2 ft away from it trying to get my baby to go to sleep and it’s going off, I’m throwing this out a f*****g window. Down to one star Update Dec 27,2025: well I haven’t thrown it out a window yet. I have been doing a lot of thinking. This item will be great…if I ever develope an arch nemesis in my life and they have a baby and I need to slowly make them lose their mind. Most recently I was up at 3am trying to get baby to fall asleep. Took baby to a separate room, I have a small house so every room is less then 100 ft away. Forgot to take the base station with me. Somehow the connectivity heavens opened up and the base station stayed quiet. So it didn’t wake my wife which was great. Baby fell asleep so took baby back to our room. Put baby in the bassinet. Lay my head to go to sleep, base station goes off with connectivity issues, wife’s awake, babies awake I’m awake. Beautiful. This kind of stuff is a regular occurrence. The only reason we still have it is because it gives my lovely wife peace of mind. But It may just make me lose mine. Still one star. Update: Dec 31st: base station is on rice, I did not drop it in water on purpose. Crying baby was taking him to another room to sleep, was thirsty so grabbed my water cup to take with me, two steps out the door, base station reminds me I forgot it with its great beeping. Hurry in to grab it and take it with me to the other room. We have two plugs for it now seeing as you have to move it but don’t want to crawl under the bed where our plug is. So unplug it grab my water cup again cause I haven’t had a drink yet. Head to other room with yelling base station, crying baby, thirsty dad. Attempt to press the base station to silence that and atleast have a little peace. Somehow plops right into my water cup. Cups perfect size to where I can’t grab it so run to sink dumb it. Impressively enough, it’s still yelling at me and working. Part of me hopes it dies, other part of me hopes it survives so my wife doesn’t want to spend another 300 DOLLARS. Oh yea no base stations are individually available for purchase from them. Adding to the dumbness. Will update if it survives Update: Jan what’s today? 2026 Base station survived on rice for 48 hours, dried out and still works unfortunately. I have made peace with it. I must have prayed for patience at some point so God sent me this to test it. There’s a reason for everything right? I am smarter than the torchers who invented this, I have plugged it into a battery back that comes with me everywhere. It’s like I have two babies now, my other one just cries less. But it works, might get it a little carry bag to go along with its new battery. Recommendation to the creators, on iteration 5or 6 of this thing, whatever you’re on, and if you read these, which I suspect you don’t. GGIVE THE BASE STATION ITS OWN BATTERY SO YOU CAN TAKE IT AROUND THE HOUSE and or make the range an actual 100ft not 100 inches. Thanks, and thanks for helping me become a more patient man through the testing of it. Might update again in the future. We’ll see. Staying one star. Update from Jan 22nd 4am: finally had the clarity of mind to take a picture for some proof in case anybody really needed it. My hand is on babies foot that has the owlet on it, base station is quite literally 3ft or less away. Placement on the foot was textbook. In a world of 5G ultra extra awesome, WiFi 8 billion, and elonian space internet, the connection problems this 300 dollar peace of equipment experiences is astoundingly terrible. To put it in perspective, a base starlink, which connects to things in space cost 199. This thing is 300 dollars and can’t connect to its base station 3ft away, my AirPods will stay connected to my phone from my room to my garage prbly a football field distance… Update on my patience: become more patient for sure, but this thing is my arch nemesis now so I will continue to fight it the only way I can…in this review… Update Feb 2026: the more I think about this thing the more bitter I get. Had a night where it just decided to not connect all night. Frankly I think baby slept better without it on. Now I’m wondering if this whole time it bothered her foot. Convinced this device is only to prey on worried people. Not going to actually help you with anything especially when it’s unreliable as it is. Another exhausting night of no help from the owlet. I just hope this has prevented people from buying this. You don’t need it, your baby will be okay. Anxiety is normal, especially for first time parents. your baby is going to sleep on you all day anyway. You’ll have less stress without this. Update May 2026: so we realized recently that this has major gaps in the readings throughout the night, it never beeped with connectivity issues in those gaps, so what happened? Baby went into another dimension and then came back? Not surprised, it’s so bad at everything. Anyway Getting really close to convincing my wife we don’t need this anymore. I can’t wait, been almost 6 months with this torture device(also realizing I spelled torture wrong in earlier posts but that’s sleep deprivation for ya). I might invite all my friends over for a destroy the owlet party. Haven’t decided how to do it yet, burn it? Throw it out of a plane? Put it in a blender? I wonder if it’ll still beep at me if it’s been blended. We may get to find out…

I love it! Has helped my anxiety so much! The battery life is great. I wish it fit smaller babies but not a big deal. The notifications are nice but I wish you could mute the assist alarm(it goes off a lot while I’m already assisting baby), and I wish it had longer range as far as connectivity. I have never gotten a false alarm. The adjustability and size are great. I don’t pay for the app so I don’t know about the features.

I got this for my 3rd baby after a health scare. A few friends and a DNP recommended it to me. I was worried it would be something that I would obsess over but it has been the complete opposite!! This little device has given me so much piece of mind and decreased my anxiety significantly. I wish I would have had this for my first! It has been a game changer and I sleep better at night knowing his heart rate and oxygen are being monitored. The only thing I wish the company would improve is the range from the sock to the base. The base is in our room, if I bring him out to the livingroom it will sometimes alarm that baby is too far away. If you're on the fence, get it. It's worth the money!

Update: I purchased this in July of 2024 for my October 2024 baby. It has been used nightly since November 2024. It is now January 2026 and I had my first issue with the sock. It disconnected from Bluetooth and would not reconnect no matter the troubleshooting steps I took. I had to contact Owlet support and the first person I spoke to was very unhelpful and told me I just needed to buy a new sensor (for an additional $130+) and that really ticked me off. I contacted support again and the second person I spoke to was extremely helpful, had me send pictures, tried to actually assist me and then when it failed, escalated the situation to a higher up who ended up approving a replacement sensor for free. I have yet to receive it as this took place on Friday and it is now Sunday so we will see soon if I do receive it and how connection goes, but so far I am still happy with the product and the customer service I received the 2nd time around and I will still recommend this to new moms who need the peace of mind like I did/do as I never had issues with false readings, and it has always been accurate for me. For almost 15mos of continuous use without any major issues till now, I am pleased. Absolutely love this product. It has SAVED my sanity. Baby girl has worn it every night for almost 8mos. Never had a false reading, is accurate for light and deep sleep as well as her pulse. Unsure about accuracy of oxygen as there isn’t a secondary way to measure that easily, but I’m assuming it’s just as accurate as the pulse is. I wouldn’t sleep without it being on her. Knowing my baby girl is safe, and if she wasn’t I’d get a notification and alarm sound is so reassuring and I’m not up all night watching her breathe. Would totally recommend to any mama.

After debating on getting it throughout my entire pregnancy, I decided to get it after my son was struggling with silent reflux + laryngomalacia. It brought me peace instantly. I have OCD and was worried this would make it worse but it did the complete opposite for me in my situation. Knowing he’s being monitored all night helps me sleep better even if it’s for 2 hour stretches during the newborn stage 😅. It beeps if it’s not reading right which is great. I like how it tracks multiple things. Only things I wish were different; the sensor being permanent on the little piece of cloth, my baby has sweaty feet and boy do they make this owlet stink! I am Able to wash the sock part but you can only spot clean the fabric on the sensor and it isn’t enough. I also wish the price was lower. It’s insanely expensive. Luckily I got it on a payment plan with affirm.

The owlet has been a complete mental and physical lifesaver in our home. My daughter had a febrile seizure following her 4 month vaccinations- without me using owlet every night and knowing her normal heart rate, I would not have had eating signs that she was in distress (had a temp and was sleepier than usual, but nothing insanely out of the ordinary, and all things her pediatrician hotline said were normal after vaccination). Her normal bedtime heart rate is 110-130. She was resting at 170-190. This allowed me to know something was wrong, and already have her things ready and was getting her set for taking her to the hospital already when the seizure happened. Even outside of this emergency event, the owlet has given me peace of mind every night as a first time mom with extreme anxiety and OCD. If I could recommend one thing to every single mother, it would be the owlet dream sock. We combine this with the owlet camera so I can check her throughout the night without getting up as well. We absolutely love our owlet system, and are so grateful to this company for helping keep our baby girl safe and put my mind at ease.

“The Smart Sock 2 has been phased out and no longer works in the Care app. They have phased it out. You can use it without wifi and the app and it will still alert via the base station but you can not see numbers. The app support ended on the April 7th.” This is their answer to why it’s not connected to the care app. What’s the point without checking the numbers and readings !!! And how can I make sure it’s working!!! Useless. Disappointed.

Vale cada centavo!!! Creo que mi bebé no estaría aquí sin este monitor, lo usa desde que nació y actualmente tiene 9 meses, el único detalle es que si eres de México o Latinoamérica necesitas cambiar tu cuenta de AppStore a una de Estados Unidos para poder descargar la app de owlet dream (si tienes familiares que te pasen dirección y tarjeta es súper sencillo hacerlo)

I have never been so happy about a purchase. With all of the controversy around an item like this, I am so beyond happy I purchased it. I was told I would have heightened anxiety by using it, that I would never stop checking the app, etc. But this item saved me while I was freshly post partum. I spent so much time worrying about falling asleep myself, because I couldn't stop checking on my newborn. I ordered this when she was a month old and she has never gone a night without it since (she's 1, and she will be giving it up soon for our newborn who is due in a few months). I have had no false alarms The app works great for both my husbands phone and my phone together (one of us has an android the other has an apple and the apps are different but work fine regardless). I can see my babies heartbeat, and the O2 updates every 10 minutes. So worth the price. We love it.

App is not available in Singapore, beware. It’s essentially useless.. don’t know why it’s available on Amazon sg.

The app is difficult to navigate and the connectivity is poor. It’s too hard to get the app to update with the latest data, and the device itself gives false readings way too often.