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your little tights can now get their own fitbit's I'm Bridget Carey and this is your CNN update with the growing trend of Health tracking wristbands it was only a matter of time before the world gave us wearables for newborns the sprout lean wants to be baby's first body monitor it's designed to give parents peace of mind when their baby is asleep you wrap it around the baby's ankle and it measures heart rate skin temperature motion and position and it sends alerts to the parents smartphone if something's wrong like if the heart rate drops or the baby needs to be rolled over the app also alerts if the baby's kicking and fussy to recharge you place it in a wireless charging dish but that dish also measures room conditions like temperature humidity and the sound and light levels those that preorder it now can get it for two hundred and fifty dollars and it'll go up to three hundred dollars after it comes out next year in March it's in the same price range as Wireless video monitors but there's no video here just health alerts and this isn't the first sensor for babies there's also the MIMO it's a monitor that attaches to a machine washable onesie it doesn't track heart rate but it does measure skin temperature breathing body position and movement through the app a parent can also listen to audio from the room the starter kit with three onesies is two hundred dollars and that's sold now at Babies R Us another one still in production is called the owlet which is worn like a bootie on the foot to measure vitals and when the baby rolls over that'll be priced at two hundred and fifty dollars if you want to track your own sleep but you're rather not wear something around your wrist there's a new type of gadget that you can put on your nightstand it's the sense by a startup company called hello it's raising money now on Kickstarter and it won't be out until November but for $100 this orb tracks things that could get in the way of your sleep it'll measure the ambient light the temperature humidity sound and dust and pollen levels you put a sensor on your pillowcase to track how much you're tossing and turning so when you wake up the app puts the data to get to tell that maybe when you tossed it was because there was noise detected maybe from your snoring partner it also is a smart alarm that you turn off with the wave of the hand it can tell when you may be waking up naturally so instead of going off when you're in a deep sleep which leaves your groggy the alarm may sound a few minutes earlier now although not everyone needs a sleep tracker it is one way to help put you on the path to sleeping like a baby that your tech news update and you can catch more episodes at cnet.com and if you're not feeling too sleepy maybe you can take the time to subscribe to our podcast from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey