Tech-Savvy Parenting: How and Why Technology Can Benefit Your Family
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Tech-infused parenting can be a helpful aid in today’s modern world. Being able to easily track child development milestones, as well as providing an unmatched peace of mind for parents, are just two of the pros of using technology to compliment your parenting journey. This blog will highlight many more reasons as to why using technology can help with the daily tasks that come hand in hand with parenting.
Why Parents Turn to Technology for Newborn Care
There are many reasons as to why parents are using technology to complement their parenting journey. Here are just a few:
- Saving time: Time is essential when you are a parent! Anything that can be used to help speed up daily processes is a life saver.
- Providing an unmatched peace of mind: Real-time tracking allows parents to track their baby’s vital signs, including pulse rate, oxygen levels, and sleep trends, with ease.
- Connectivity: Parents can see and hear their children, even if they are not in the room. This can be a perfect solution for a busy parent who travels a lot or even for one-night stays with the grandparents!
- Ease: Smart monitors and sleep tracking apps make it easier for parents to juggle the daily commitments between work and home life.
- Accessibility: Many of these products can be clipped onto prams, or have smaller ‘travel’ sizes, which means they can provide help in and out of the home.
A helping hand can now be one-click away whether that be through an app on a smartphone or on a device.
Monitoring Baby's Health with Technology
New parents can often feel anxious during those first few months with their newborn. Although many parents will anecdotally say that this worry never ends, technology can help to provide a real-time peace of mind for parents who need some comfort during tricker times.
Monitor what matters most with the Owlet Medically-Certified Dream Sock™. This baby monitor provides real-time tracking of pulse rate, oxygen levels, and sleep patterns all in one handy app. Unlike many monitoring systems, the Owlet Medically-Certified Dream Sock™ offers all its advanced features with no subscription fees. Shortlisted for the Mother and Baby Awards 2025 in three categories (Best Baby Monitor, Best Safety Product, and Innovation of the Year), this smart baby monitor is the perfect addition to any bedtime.
For parents who would like a complete smart baby monitoring experience, the Owlet Dream Sock ™ + Cam® 2 Bundle allows parents to see and hear their baby in real-time offering unparalleled peace of mind. Track your baby’s vital signs, including pulse rate, oxygen levels, and sleep trends, with ease. Receive real-time notifications if any health readings fall outside the preset ranges through the Owlet Dream App and base station. The Cam® 2 provides additional sound, motion, and cry notifications, with the capability to save video clips for monitoring disturbances.
Technology can be incredibly helpful during the first few months with your baby, especially for first-time parents. It provides extra reassurance during challenging moments, helping to reduce stress by allowing parents to monitor their baby's health while managing daily tasks.
Automate Your Feeding Routine
Did you know that the average newborn feeds every two to three hours during their first few months? This means that parents are making ten to fourteen bottles every day. Manually preparing formula bottles can take fifteen to thirty minutes. Not only is this time consuming but it can also add stress during those tricker night feedings.
In the UK, almost three-quarters of babies will have consumed formula by six weeks old, and almost all babies will have been fed formula by the time they reach six months. For parents who decide to use formula during their feeding routine, the Baby Brezza Formula Pro Advanced is the quickest way to make a bottle. Making a bottle in just fifteen seconds, the patented mixing technology automatically mixes formula and water to the perfect consistency without air bubbles every time. It is customisable with three temperature settings and is a faster, more accurate, and more hygienic way to make bottles, compared to making them by hand.
For parents who also decide to use breastmilk during their feeding journey, the Baby Brezza Bottle and Breast Milk Warmer is the only warmer with two warming modes to safely warm breastmilk and formula! Unlike most other bottle warmers that use steam heat which destroys breastmilk proteins, the Steady Warm mode uses a warm water bath to safely warm or defrost breastmilk which preserves its nutrients. It fits virtually all bottles, milk storage bags and baby food jars and is easy to use.
Feeding preparation can be time consuming and stressful. Using technology to help with the process allows more time to bond with your baby. In turn, there is less time to stress over the preparation process.
Managing Sleep with Soothing Gadgets
Newborns need a lot of sleep! Some babies will sleep for eight hours a day, whilst other will sleep for up to eighteen. However, some nights some babies may struggle to sleep. This can leave parents tired and stressed as they are left rocking and shooshing their little ones for hours.
Winner of the Gold 2024 Dadsnet award for Gold Best Sleeptime Accessory, the Rockit Rocker fits onto all prams and strollers. The Rockit Rocker uses a gentle rocking motion to safely soothe babies to sleep. It stimulates the gentle rocking that parents will often recreate to help their little ones drift off. It has an adjustable speed dial and is safe to use from birth. It is the perfect accessory for parents on the go!
Help your little one drift off to sleep, with sounds of space provided by NASA! The Rockit Wooshh is a portable sound machine. Equipped with eight sounds and four volume settings, the device is fully customisable to best suit your little one’s needs. The ten-hour all-night mode is useful during those tricker nights. The Rockit Wooshh is suitable to use from birth and helps to mask disruptive noise to help your little one sleep soundly.
Using devices such as these allow parents to regain time that may have been spent sending their little ones off to sleep. Furthermore, with free hands parents can continue to do their daily tasks whilst knowing their newborn is in a deep slumber, dreaming of snuggles and cuddles.
Bottle Cleaning Made Easy
The NHS recommends sterilising your baby’s bottles until they are at least twelve months old. With cleaning, sterilising and drying baby bottles being an important part of every parent’s daily routine, this process can often be time consuming for many busy parents.
Never use a bottle brush again with the Baby Brezza Bottle Washer Pro®. The Baby Brezza Bottle Washer Pro® automatically washes, sterilises, and dries bottles, pump parts, and sippy cups. It is customisable with six cleaning modes and kills 99.9% of germs with steam, then dries with HEPA-filtered hot air.
Spend more time with your little one and less time sterilising with the Baby Brezza Steriliser Dryer Advanced. The Baby Brezza Steriliser Dryer Advanced has the largest capacity of any steriliser, holding 8 bottles, 2 full breast pump part sets, soothers and accessories from any brand. Customisable with four modes to suit your needs, it kills 99.9% of germs with natural steam, then automatically dries 33% faster saving you precious time.
With the average newborn drinking between 10 to 14 bottles a day, new parents are constantly looking for ways to speed up the cleaning, sterilising and drying process of their feeding routine. Devices such as these can help not only save time, but also make sure your baby is drinking from sterilised bottles during each feed.
The Future of Parenting and Technology
As technology advances, it is certain that more and more devices will be created to aid each step of the parenting journey. As these devices are introduced in the coming years, the world of parenting may change. However, as these devices are introduced, it is important that they are used as a means to aid parenting, rather than becoming a crutch. Whilst technology can be a great tool to aid parents along their parenting journey, it is important that it does not replace parenting. No machine can give cuddles like a parent can!
Parenting is a personal journey and each family is different. Tech-infused parenting can be a great way to save time and allows for parents to see and hear their little ones whilst they continue to do their daily tasks. However, some families will find certain devices more useful than others, and that is okay! The key to using technology, like all other aspects of parenting, is finding what works for you and your family.
Author - Chloe Markey
Chloe Markey is a freelance writer who specialises in script and blog writing. With a particular passion for podcasts, Chloe has been involved in the production of multiple podcast series, ranging from true crime to our very own The Cheeky Rascals Podcast. She has an avid interest in the world of parenting and has learnt lots since working with Cheeky Rascals!