Carson Meyer Instagram – Parenting In The Age of Self-Imposed Surveillance I’m seeing so many apps and hi-tech baby monitors marketed to new mothers to keep track of feeds, wakes, poops, pees and promising to “make motherhood easier”. Frankly I’m exhausted just thinking about it. Data analytics do not make motherhood easier. What if I told you you and your baby could thrive without a schedule or a performance review. What if I told you that you are fully capable of tuning into your child’s rhythms and meeting her needs, without living under the shadow of Big Tech? The baby monitors that detect breathing patterns, REM cycles, wet diapers, temperature, track movement and literally rock your baby really aren’t that impressive to me. Parents have been successfully doing all these things for centuries (without emitting high levels of disruptive EMFs) I don’t believe this type of technology helps us parent better. Instead, it takes us further from our intuition and makes us more reliant on the devices that are intruding more and more into our daily lives. Use your hand to feel the temperature of her skin, smell her diaper to know if it’s clean, let her chest rise and fall on your body as she sleeps, offer your breast to her when she cries and you’ll know if she’s hungry. You see, nature has provided us with the tools we need to tune in. Using our senses strengthens our trust in ourselves and our children.