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When to say bye to the baby monitor

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strugglingpuggle · 05/10/2018 22:04

Just what the above says really. DD is nearly 2.5 and we still have the baby monitor in her room. I'm perfectly happy to keep it, but DH thinks its time to get rid of it.

For context, DD was a very bad sleeper, would be up 4 - 5 times a night. started sleeping through at about 2 years when we moved house and put her in a bed. We live in a town house so DD is on the floor above us, still has a stair gate on her room, and top of the stairs by her room.

I'm a generally anxious person so having it just makes me feel a bit more relaxed etc. DH says the sound of the background noise keeps him awake. Compromised by turning it down but he still wants it gone.

Interested to know when anyone else said goodbye to theirs!

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ileclerc · 05/10/2018 22:05

Totally depends how big your house is!

ileclerc · 05/10/2018 22:07

Sorry read it properly now! We got rid of ours at about one but we slept on the same floor, but I guess that's no different to being downstairs in the evening?

LoisLittsLover · 05/10/2018 22:10

Dd is 4 in 2 weeks time and u still have it!! Her room is the othet side of the house and she would be really upset if she called and we didn't come. We are also in a town house so have a gate on her door as there are too many staies to sensibly gate off

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LoisLittsLover · 05/10/2018 22:11

Meant to add, we sleep with white noise, so would really struggle to hear her

fastfooder · 05/10/2018 22:13

I would have it off but sleep with the doors to my room open to hear if she wakes or if she tries to leave her room. DH also hates the background noise as well.

LondonLassInTheCountry · 05/10/2018 22:14

What background noise keeps him awake?

greenlynx · 05/10/2018 22:19

We keep our monitor until DD was probably 5 , it became broken so gone naturally. She was a bad sleeper and I couldn’t hear her calling/crying when I was at the living room in the evening. We also used it while travelling. We didn’t keep at on at night ( we’re at the same floor) but kept hers and ours doors open as she often woke up at night and came to our bedroom.

LookImAHooman · 05/10/2018 22:20

London a lot of monitors don’t have a noise sensitivity adjustment function so you get constant white noise. Utter PITA.

MrsPandaBear · 05/10/2018 22:31

We still have one with DS at 3.5 although we only use it now in the summer when we are in the garden, which you can't hear his room from. Could you afford another baby monitor with a sensitivity adjustment - ours works well and we don't get any white noise?

BlingLoving · 05/10/2018 22:33

Our monitor doesn't have a sound dampener, so I appreciate your dh' c9ncern. We are also on a different floor so aren't completely comfortable without it. Our compromise is to put the monitor in the corridor outside our room. We don't hear the small noises but can still hear her proper crying.

Phalarope · 05/10/2018 22:42

Stopped using DD’s at 4 because the toddler wandered off with it playing phones and has hidden it somewhere. Not seen it for months. But our house has thick walls and we sleep with doors closed - the monitor has been useful long past babyhood for things like nosebleeds, vomits, coughs, nightmares, wet beds. I like being able to spring into action when it’s needed rather than wait for her to shout loud enough to wake us or come and get us.

Having said that, her monitor made loads of white noise and was v annoying, which is probably why I’ve not looked that hard for it.

runsmidgeOMG · 05/10/2018 22:46

Yep ! We have a 2yo (3 in Feb) still use the video monitor, also bad sleeper and will
Often wake and come in with us by 3am. We also live in a town house, her room is on the top floor next to us but when she goes to bed it's useful when we watch TV downstairs. I still have the monitor on all night even though she's next door with stair gates ! Have absolutely no plans to get rid any time soon :)

CurlsandCurves · 05/10/2018 22:47

If your child is consistently sleeping through, get rid of it. At her age, unless you live in a massive house, you will either hear her or she will come and find you.

CurlsandCurves · 05/10/2018 22:50

Sorry, didn’t read your original post properly.

But even so, I think you’d hear her if she needed you.

Reaa · 05/10/2018 22:51

I still have one but not used every night, I use it for drunk teens so I can hear if they wake up in the night, sleep walk, are sick or fall over.

Otherwise I would end up sitting up with them all night.

GreenMeerkat · 06/10/2018 07:42

I have only just moved our video monitor from the girls' room (ages 3 and 5) into the nursery as I'm due DC3 in a couple of weeks. We didn't use it for bedtime really as the parent unit stayed downstairs and they are good sleepers. Most of their toys are in their ion however, so if they were upstairs playing it was useful to be able to keep an eye on them with it.

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