by Kelly Wilbanks posted in Products

It was three in the morning and I was researching ways to get my baby to sleep. Sound familiar" My youngest daughter just doesn't like to sleep, at all. In desperation, I scrolled through the interwebs in the wee hours looking for anything promising.
That's when I came across the Sproutling Wearable Baby Monitor. I'd been keeping track of Annie's sleep by using my Fitbit to see how often I woke up at night. The Sproutling system looked better, though -- it would track Annie's sleep patterns specifically and give us the data we needed to make a better sleep plan for all of us.
Sproutling is a wearable monitor, but it doesn't track heart rate or breathing like other wearables. Its most impressive claim is that after enough monitoring it can begin predicting sleeping patterns. It will let me know if I have enough time to take a shower or start dinner. It had me at "take a shower."
I was so excited when it arrived in the mail. It's an incredibly simple system, which is great because who needs complicated at 2 a.m." It was easy to set up once I read the instructions (which I didn't do before trying to set it up the first time). You need to download the app on your phone to control the charger. There are no buttons on either the charger or the band, because everything is controlled by your phone.

While I downloaded the app and created Annie's profile I charged the battery. Charging the battery is so simple that I...