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Visted a family last night, their eldest is three years and three months old, and they still have a baby monitor for him - in fact, have just bought a s****y new video-capable one. Is this healthy?
Healthy for who? Why would it be unhealthy?
We couldn't bear it for long..
Maybe six months
If my 3 year old wants anything, he texts us or slips a note under our bedroom door..
In fact, now he's nearly four it's more often us texting him to get him to bring us a cup of tea or a bacon sarnie
3 weeks. The snuffling was unbearable.
Has anyone else heard their baby start crying, only to be followed by a soothing adult voice on a baby monitor?
First time it happened to us, the nano second it took to conclude that it was someone else's alarm interfering with ours was terrifying!
On and off for 18 months. More for when we were visiting friends/in-laws as he didn't settle well in new places/travel cot.
Not sure what model we had but would only cut in to our receiver if prolonged noise, something like 5 seconds so light noise/movement in bed was never an issue.
Has anyone else heard their baby start crying, only to be followed by a soothing adult voice on a baby monitor?
Not happened to us but if it had, i'd shat a brick.
You can shat a brick in a nano second, believe me 🙂
Never. Pavlov knew his stuff.
About 2 hours, when we realised that there was no way of figuring out any problems from the snuffling noises, and that as soon as she woke and cried we heard it anyway.
Some sort of bio monitoring would be more useful. So it would monitor breathing, heart rate and unusual movement, then stay quiet until something actually bad happens.
We used ours for a few nights before we got fed up with it picking up the signal from the local taxi firm.
At least until the child leaves home.
Our daughter's gonna turn two next month and she still has one. Comes in handy when we go out as we can just take it to the inlaws next door and they can listen out for her without having to come through (our houses adjoin through the pantry so it's effectively one large farmhouse).
We don't use ours at night, never have, but wee guy is nearly 2 and if he's ill we'll put it on while downstairs watching films. I'll also use it when in the shed/garden during his naps
As long as you want. There are no rules.
Stopped at 6 months. Will be reinstalled when she starts bringing boys home!
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As long as you want. There are no rules.
This.
4 and 6, still have one, bedroom is quite a distance away. tribes sleep with their kids in the same room so I don't see a problem. It's not a conscious decision to keep it, just never thought of moving it, but then our kids don't really bother us in the night.
Ours broke after 6 months with our first child. It never got replaced for our second.
for as long as you want to watch them for. if you are downstairs and they are upstairs you can keep an eye on them or if they are in another room at night you can decide wither to get up or not if they make a noise. never bothered with just a speaker, all three kids had/have a video one. This is what we have, its brill.
http://www.shop.bt.com/products/bt-video-baby-monitor-7500-lightshow-078690-9V8G.html
MoreCashThanDash - MemberStopped at 6 months. Will be reinstalled when she starts bringing boys home!
pretty sure there is a law against that ya perv
For boys it's till they are mid 60s or get married and have someone else take over the supervising
Better off with the movement / breathing sensor pads.. so at least you know if theyve actually stopped breathing in their sleep. Or on the occasion they roll right off the sensor and the alarm goes off at 3 am.. more shitting brick moments as you sprint to the cot...
Only used ours when we are away and couldn't hear him from where we were.
Don't bother at home as we can easily here him.
I'm a bit fatalistic when it comes to the breathing monitors as if they stop breathing is there really much you can do. Sure cpr would probably keep them going for a while but I'm not sure that it would help that much.
Ours just rings a bell for our attention 🙂
Seriously though, we only had ours for maybe a year? I know my mates had theres for years. Everyone is different, as long as both of you are comfortable.
WHAT!
So are you saying that you wouldn't try CPR as there wouldn't be much point
About a year for #2, a couple of years for #1 but that was due to being in a different floor of the house to us so I often couldn't hear her cry.
#2 has just gone to sleep in a bed (as opposed to cot) for the first time. Currently sitting outside his foot waiting for the inevitable footsteps....
One year for no1, when no2 came along it didn't work properly but would function just about, no3 its stayed in the loft. But by the time you get to no3 you realise that they can fend for themselves / take advantage of the older two 😉
Got an (almost) 2 and (almost) 4 year old here and they are both are on a video monitor. The only time it really get used is when mrs blobby is out and I'm on the turbo. Find it useful as I have a set of headphones on, two big 18" fans going, and the noisiest turbo known to man, so there is no chance I'd hear anything going on right behind me let alone upstairs. I'd think it a bit irresponsible otherwise. I don't think it's unhealthy for anyone concerned.
Ours is still on a monitor, three in two months. The receiver lives in the kitchen, I'm hoping the missus doesn't notice for another few weeks and we can disconnect it.
The sensor pad got binned in no time flat, was more bother than it was worth.
Not at all. I would always try cpr.
But unfortunately healthy babies do not stop breathing unless something is seriously wrong.
So unless that can be addressed then the chances of repeated incidences have to be high.
As long as I'm in the garage, or the wee lad is asleep in the car on the drive.
So far 9 months. Won't be stopping any time soon.
His bedroom is three flights of stairs up from where we are on an evening, so wouldn't hear a thing without one.
Just sound though, no video
Sweajnr is almost 2 and as per MrBlobby it now sits by the turbo. But we're in a bungalow so our bedroom, his bedroom and living room are very close together. Turbo is however in basement.
Only so we can go next door and drink wine and then only up til a year. In the house, about 2hrs, it's like having a pig in the bedroom, constant snuffling noises. Unbearable.
Ours lasted a year maximum - I hated the snuffling and farting noises it carried.
Frankly, when they can walk, they can shout or come to our room for help.
All the people saying they couldn't stand the snuffling noises etc.
Did you not have a volume control?
Ours is totally silent 99% of the time, volume is set so we can hear crying and pretty much nothing else.
A week after our daughter was born mother in law came to stay, a few days later my wife and I are in the nursery room and I says to the wife 'when's your mum going home, I hate watching Coronation street' guess where the monitor speaker was and guess where my mil was?
About a week. Dog whined when he woke up anyway!!
They all have noises gates don't they or do some transmit sound constantly? If they do have a noise gate and the low level sounds are annoying, just move the transmitter (and thus the mic within) further from the baby.
Ours transmits constantly, but have set the volume low so the normal noises aren't heard at all.
It's on a bedside table about 30cm from my head all night and I can't hear a thing unless he cries.
Fair enoughski, I thought it was a bit weird but apparantly not so much. 🙂 They have it set so you can hear every squeak, would do my head in but as long as they're happy. 🙂
18 months and counting - we turned the sound off, she's in the next room, if she cries we hear it - obviously it's a video one with cool night vision.
Was useful the other day when she was sick and had puke all over the face and in her hair - many years from now a psychologist will be asking her about a recurring dream when she's asleep but being held in the shower by daddy whilst mummy washes her hair ha ha.
, I thought it was a bit weird but apparantly not so much. They have it set so you can hear every squeak, would do my head in but as long as they're happy.
Not all night surely? Now that wouldn't be healthy for the parents given the amount of noise kids make when they're sleeping.
there's currently a bit on BoingBoing /Ars Technica about the (un)security of the fancy dan baby monitors
http://boingboing.net/2016/01/24/a-search-engine-for-insecure-c.html
Re the bio monitoring - we have an Angel Care, its a sensor pad under the mattress which has an alarm should it not detect movement for 10 seconds or so. Works well, even at 6lb baby weight the sensor could pick up breathing, no false alarms. You can turn down the sound transfer so snuffling is removed. They aren't cheap...13 months still using.
My kids are now 26&24 and still use the monitors, down the garage for extra night security mind!
About 9 months for each of our two boys - mostly because that's how long the crappy BT ones last before breaking.
We have the angel care one and still use it when we are downstairs but turn it off when we go to bed, our daughter is nearly 18 months.
We ran the angelcare one for several years as we have very thick walls in an old house and a bomb could go off in the room and we couldn't hear it (although directly next door). Stopped using the pad when she could move around lots.
Daughter was born with a heart defect so we even used the pad set up when she was sleeping in the same room as us. Excellent product, which i would recommend to anyone. Didnt fancy the video type for a number of reasons.
This is making me think. Sounds like how long we have been using them is unusual. We still use the cr*ppy BT ones for both kids (sound only) and they are 4.5 and 2. It is just part of the routine.
The problem is in our house we will not hear them without the listener on the rare occasions when they get upset in the night.
But I do want to stop using it for the older child but he wont like it and I would prefer he didn't get out of bed if he wants something as it may be tough to get him back into bed. However, I think it is time to bite the bullet on that. Conversation with the wife this evening.
Our almost 9 yr old is only allowed out of bed for the bathroom, any thing else she calls out for us at a volume the neighbours could hear. Or I can hear through the monitor which in the 2yr olds room when I'm in the garage.
Monitor is a basic BT one that is coming up to 9 years old and has been faultless apart from the battery cover clip breaking when it was dropped once too many times.