The study helps determine the baby's ability to control heart rate and breathing during feeding and during different stages of sleep. Study results along with other data are used to predict how likely the infant is to have a life threatening event during infancy. The laboratory study is painless and is performed without sedatives. For young infants it takes about 3 - 4 hours and is usually done during a daytime nap. For older infants the study is performed overnight.
Parents can wait in our family lounge, where they can read, nap or watch videos.
They are also free to go into the lab at any time and view their infant. This is a phone session conducted by our nurse or other clinical staff immediately before or after the infant has been set up on a monitor. What various alarms mean. When the monitor should be used. How and when to modem the monitor data to the Institute.