Health Trackers Are Everywhere. Do Babies Need Them, Too?

@mitchAnnotated September 23, 2026Public

Health trackers help us as adults, but we know so little about what is going on with babies, this is a gamechanger.

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I am a tester of this, pretty cool!

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She'd wake up, and when she woke up, how long was she awake before she put herself back to sleep?
And so from this app, you can check on your baby from anywhere, whether you're at home or at the grocery store or maybe even at your office.
And one of the things that hooked us on this app was the video camera would make these cute montages of these moments of greeting our daughter in the morning and this look of joy on her face as we picked her up.
And the Nanette is just one of many of these baby tech products.
there's a really big rival of Nanette called the Owlet, and that tracks a baby's pulse through a sock.
A sock?
Through a sock.
Like literally?