[Closed] Baby monitors for twins

I'm not sure how much we used our monitor with the twins - we were up with them constantly anyway!
Good luck though. Twins are fab.... But very tiring.

One of my twins died at six months old and I still didn’t get a monitor.

I don’t understand monitors.

Maybe you live in a much bigger house than we did.

Very sorry to hear that Brant. Agreed Sharky were expecting them to have a big impact, we've been undecided about monitors for similar reasons, I just wondered if there's anything I was obviously missing

anything I was obviously missing

Yes.... Sleep. Sorry to break it to you (YMMV though).

Brant: that's truly horrible 😟

Been happy with our basic BT audio one through two kids, it ruined the first set of rechargeable batteries but they were standard AA types and new ones now mean the parent unit lasts 24+ hours off the charging base.

Get a separate camera you can view from your phone if you want that. Currently we have a Neos smartcam doing that, much better picture than the video baby monitors.

Never bothered with movement pads or anything like that, several friends had babies before us and didn’t find them useful or reassuring, just endless false alarms.

Agree that unless your house is huge you’ll probably hear them - I sometimes have headphones on though so having the audio monitor light up is handy.

We had motorola monitors which you could link two cameras to, however you couldnt buy the cameras seperately 🤦‍♂️. I fixed the camera above the cots on the ceiling pointing straight down.
We adopted our twins at 11 months so no experience of the younger year to pass on

Edit. Just reread the post - twins so delete my reply!

We had a movement monitor for our girl, that was swiftly unplugged after the umpteenth false alarm, don't think it even lasted a week. We did have a full sized cot but still, the pad was barely big enough for a (computer) mouse never mind a moving baby.

Don't buy into the fear marketing, a simple monitor is enough to listen for them waking up if you're down watching TV, doing dishes, sleeping or any of the other luxuries of your own time. Monitors have never and will never make your baby any safer.

We too have a Neos cam, about £15 off amazon and works very well for what we want out of it.
Notifies us of any movement or sound, has a good quality feed in day and nightlight and you can tune in for a live feed.

Assuming your new babies are standard models, you'll soon find that they come ready fitted with stuff that makes a baby monitor completely redundant. Unless you live in a mahoosive house or are deaf.

Like everyone else we bought one of the stupid things as part of the 'good parents spend shit loads of money on tat' thang.

Complete waste of money. The kid cried, we heard him, the kid screamed we heard him, when the kid coughed we heard him without the monitor.

Pointless landfill tat.

(Barring the two caveats above, in which case congratulations or condolences respectively)

I'm with Sharkbait.... we had 1 standard audible only (ie no camera/movement etc) with our twins, but it was pretty much redundant as we were mostly up anyway!

Twins are great, although ending up with 3 boys in 2 years, bloody tiring. Now at 11, 9 & 9 they're a constant ball of energy, but comfortingly the twins still have a special random bond.

PS... Brant... heartbreaking. Sorry for your loss.

Assuming your new babies are standard models, you’ll soon find that they come ready fitted with stuff that makes a baby monitor completely redundant. Unless you live in a mahoosive house or are deaf.

Either our house is massive (it's not) or ours is broke.

Baby is upstairs in bedroom. Can't hear it from the living room even with the doors open.

What our house is is of solid construction and the doors are at the far end of the upstairs corridor.

We have the cheapest bt video one and what it allows is us to get to child before there is a melt down and needs consoling rather than just Ssssht back to sleep.

It also allows us to decide if it's melt down on the way or just the sleep cycle wake roll over small cry fall asleep.

I was against it but wife's uncle was a funeral director and she got the fear.

I'm actually happy enough with it now. *

* Your house may not require it but mine does.....

We had a normal monitor for our twins, but as mentioned above we were up with them heaps as they wouldn't settle in to a routine. Best thing I ever did was chuck them out (the monitors not the kids)

Pointless landfill tat.

Looks at monitor, see toddler is on the verge of falling out of bed, fix problem.

For a baby - baby is crying, check monitor, eyes are still closed, avoid entering, baby settles

Also not all babies have the same cry, some are like fog horns, some are surprising quiet

Ours has a foghorn cry believe me

Trust me if it's got to that stage you WILL not be putting her back to sleep any time soon.

We had the basic Motorola audio ones for our kids, inc twins. As others have said above they're of limited use but we did find them useful in the evening so we could hear one being unsettled before they kicked off. Not sure I'd had had the time to bother with any video nonsense or having my phone beep at me every hour

4 kids, 2 of em twins, we used the audio on!y one with the first kid, but after a while just never bothered

Spend the cash on a tommy tippee perfect prep machine instead

THAT was money well spent

Oh & good luck !!

Complete waste of money. The kid cried, we heard him, the kid screamed we heard him, when the kid coughed we heard him without the monitor.

Pointless landfill tat.

We spent the first 7 weeks of our eldest’s life in hospital with him wired up to a monitor for most of it. Towards the end of the stay he was in a cot with a monitor and sensor pad. When we left, I bought the exact model the hospital used and we used it up until he was around 12 months. I think we had about half a dozen false alarms (Well, you assume they are )in that time. It left us re-assured when he was in the cot. It’s not always about just listening out for crying etc. As for the op with twins, I think you can get ones that clip into / onto the nappy. At the end of the day, it’s your choice, but for us it was one less worry.

We had Baby Angel (?) monitors - two identical units in different channels with the sensor bases. I wasn’t entirely sure about using them but they reassured my wife and she was the poor sod that had to carry them for nearly nine months and gave birth to them so I wasn’t going to argue the toss over £200 if it meant she got a bit more sleep.

Edit: Angelcare