by Michelle Stein posted in Parenting

A thankful father is crediting a high-tech, wearable monitor for saving his baby's life; had it not been for an alarm sounding, Ryan Golinski's 4-week-old son, Bryce, might not be here today.
If you've never heard of an Owlet, it's a $300 monitoring system -- which tracks heart rate, oxygen level and body temperature -- with senors that fit onto an infant like a sock. Its goal" To give parents peace of mind while their babies are sleeping.

"Very scary night last night," Golinski wrote in his now-viral Facebook post. "So last night around 3 a.m. The sock started alarming us something was wrong, which we thought was a false alarm because it said his heart rate was reading 286. But three resets later and it was still reading extremely high for an infant. We have spent the last 24+ hours (a)t the hospital for something called SVT, and we caught it before any side effects. So everything is going well now and his heart is still extremely healthy." If you're not familiar with SVT, it stands for supraventricular tachycardia. This a fancy term for a heart rate over 100 beats per minute that starts in the upper chambers of the heart. If untreated, it can lead to seizures, stroke and even death.
"If we didn't catch it as early as we did with that sock, his heart wouldn't have been able to handle it and we could be dealing with something a lot more serious," Golinski continued. "I highly recommend new pa...