Janelle King experienced the scare of a lifetime when she woke up in the middle of the night and thought her baby boy wasn’t breathing.
In a video shared on King’s TikTok, her then-12-month-old son Zylo is sleeping in his crib when their Nanit baby monitor goes off to alert Janelle that he isn’t breathing. Janelle reaches over to check on Zylo, lightly shaking him before realizing that he is okay.
At the end of the clip, Janelle can be seen resting her face on her baby’s crib, looking at her baby boy. “POV: it’s 6am & the NANIT goes off to say your baby isn’t breathing,” she wrote over the video.
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“Nothing prepares you for the fear,” she wrote in her caption. “Zylo had just turned one month old at the time – we were fast asleep and his breathing alarm went off.”
“I jumped up, panicked, and shook him just to feel him move. He was okay, but I wasn’t,” she continued. “Motherhood is beautiful, but no one talks about this kind of fear.”
Speaking with PEOPLE, Janelle says the moment she thought her son wasn’t breathing was one of the scariest in her entire life.
“That night, whether the alarm was a false alarm or not, my wife and I were just so grateful to have it,” she says. “If Zylo had actually stopped breathing, it could have saved his life.”
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Janelle King’s son Zylo
“As you can probably see in the video, it was one of the scariest moments I’ve ever experienced. All you want as a first-time mom is to keep your baby safe,” continues Janelle. “When the alarm went off, it jolted me out of my sleep, it’s that loud — and in seconds, I was in full panic, not knowing if my baby was breathing.”
She goes on to say that SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) is a a big fear of hers and adds that having a device like Nanit gives her family peace of mind.
“If there’s one thing I’d share with other parents, it’s this: invest in your baby’s safety and well-being,” she says. “You won’t regret it.”
“This happened when Zylo was just over a month old. Now, he’s about to turn 8 months (in just 10 days!) and he’s absolutely thriving,” adds the proud mom. “He’s the happiest baby, full of smiles, and he brightens every room he enters.”
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