Safe baby monitor for toddler?

[Aureum]

DS sleeps reasonably well in his little toddler bed at the foot of my bed. I want to move him into his own room but I’m worried I won’t hear him cry if he wakes up. My town house has one bedroom per floor - so I won’t be just next door, I’ll be on a different floor. I’m worried about using a baby monitor because he can get out of bed and it’s unsafe to have cables he could strangle himself with.

Any suggestions? Is it possible to get a monitor with no cables?

[Aureum]

Thanks everyone. The Motorola monitor looks good because it plugs directly into the socket and has no cables.

[CaramelCrunch]

OP I apologise for my comment yesterday - reading it back now I realise it came across badly. I just never considered that cables would still be an issue at the age you were talking about, and thought this was an unnecessary worry, but clearly all children are different and you know your child best. I should not have posted in haste, sorry.

Others PPs have been far more helpful and given some great suggestions for ways to get round this issue.

[preponderings]

We use the baby monitor app with an iPad paired to an iPhone. One is the baby station and one is the parent station.
But we live in a flat so only use it if I go to the neighbours or in the evenings in a hotel. Don't know if it's practical to use every day.

[davies308]

I'v never used a baby monitor with any of mine but the town house does pose some issues. I'm with you on not leaving a cable in his room, children do tend to put things around their necks unaware of the dangers. I'd get one without a cable but also teach him a word that he's to shout if he needs any help.

[TheNoiseHurts]

Tbh it's going to be about 10 months until he demands it's open because the monsters/scary thing/Teddy/god knows what is scaring him and he needs it open a crack.

Is he your only child?

[jarjarjam]

To those saying open the door a crack, that overcomes the cable danger but creates a fire danger. I think you’re advised to keep door shut and all the more so in a townhouse (extra fire issues, will all be weighted fire doors).

[Pilot12]

Our camera is on top of the wardrobe with the cable running down the back.

[TheJoxter]

This one www.argos.co.uk/product/7454295

[TheJoxter]

We have one that plugs directly into the mains, very basic (one-way only, no camera) but does the trick. Got it from a charity shop but will try to find similar online

[Pearpair4]

We have these they’re great - no wires

Motorola MBP8 Audio Baby Monitor with Wall Plug Baby and Parent Unit www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B009OZMQYU/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_XfgtEbAYHEWJQ?tag=mumsnet&ascsubtag=mnforum-21

[TheNoiseHurts]

Does he have form for strangling himself with cables?!

Do you have form for being such a prick?
As if children and toddlers have never strangled themselves. Jesus, a quick google will show you plenty that have on blind cords, if you want some light nighttime reading

OP you're being sensible. I have one on a long cord and I've wondered what I will do when DS has a bed.

I don't have anxiety.

I have older children and I know exactly what kind of things they get up to....

[SomethingNastyInTheBallPool]

A perfectly sensible question, OP.

We have a monitor on top of DD’s chest of drawers, with the wire attached firmly to the side of the furniture and the plug socket enclosed so she can’t fiddle with it.

[StopMakingATitOfUrselfNPissOff]

Put the monitor under his bed,wrap the cable around the leg of the bed.
Don't tell him it's there!

[Aureum]

There are narrow stairs up to the top floor and a tiny landing just big enough to open the door. No plug socket. The gate is on the door because it wasn’t possible to attach it to the stairs.

[Yesterdayforgotten]

You can get electrical cable trunking on amazon.

[user1493413286]

Are there any plugs in the hallway where you could plug it in? Then have a stair gate across his room door ?

[Yesterdayforgotten]

OP I think your best bet would be plugging it in and putting camera from socket on to shelf and fixing the wire securely to the wall using a wire box or fixings.

[Aureum]

Yes there’s a gate on his door but there’s no power socket on the little landing outside. I’d have to plug it in his room but I have safety concerns. The furniture is built in so there’s nothing to put a cable behind. Without a monitor I’d be relying on hearing him down two flights of stairs whilst asleep.

[Aureum]

The house has our bedroom on the ground floor, the living room on the 1st floor and DS’s room on the 2nd floor. So if we’re in the sitting room we’re only one floor down from DS and we hear him cry. Even so we have to keep the tv very quiet in order to hear. I’m not convinced we’d hear if we were down another flight of stairs and sound asleep.

Yes he often puts things round his neck, if he gets his hands on my dressing gown cord or a phone cable etc. We had to remove a lamp because he kept wrapping himself in the cord. I wouldn’t like to leave him unsupervised with a baby monitor cable within reach.

[Yesterdayforgotten]

Handsoffisback ops mental health sounds fine; what a rude comment. I think she sounds like a decent parent trying to keel her child safe and it's a pity all parents are not the same!

[NaiceHamPlease]

Yes to the stair gate and ignore the goady comment!

[Yesterdayforgotten]

CaramelCrunch what a nasty unhelpful comment!

[NaiceHamPlease]

The plug is under his bed so he can't tea h that either!

[ShyTown]

We have a monitor for our DD’s room for when we go sit outside of a summer evening and we’ve placed the cord behind a toy storage unit that’s secured to the wall. So there’s no way she can get at the cord. Alternatively if he’s a young toddler and because you’re in a town house I’d suggest a stair gate on his room anyway then you could leave his door open a crack and put the monitor on the landing. Babies have died from being strangled by monitor cords- it’s important to be safe.

[NaiceHamPlease]

We have a camera mounted on the wall above DS's bed. The cable runs up the wall but is enclosed in a piece of plastic trunking that sticks to the wall. It was a couple of quid from B&Q and keeps the cable out of his reach. He's an absolute monkey for yanking stuff and it's remained intact since he's been in his little bed. I couldn't hear him when I'm downstairs so the monitor gives me great peace of mind, I can also see what the little tinker is up to if he get out!