What age did you lose the baby monitor?

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We packed it in at 2 but a friend still has hers up at 4 - is it unsafe should I still have mine up?

We had ours until nearly 5 think. We moved when DD was 3 and felt it helped her settling into a new house better. Then we moved her into the loft conversion while we slept at the middle floor/were at the ground floor before we went to bed.

I think we took it away when she started coming down the stairs instead of shouting for us.

Sometimes you think you hear them calling or crying only to find they're actually asleep and you've imagined it - much less likely to disturb them by checking on them with the camera than by going up to check. Or on the other hand, when you check it and can see they're stood up and actually want attention, you can get up there straight away.
I'm sure we'll ditch at some point but she's 3 in a few months and no immediate plans, it's too convenient.

We’ve never used one and they’re all alive and well!

No, it's not unsafe. Hundreds of generations of babies were raised quite well without them.

I like mine for things like shouting out in the night for help when sick. Probably won't stop for a few more years.

Around aged 5 for both DDs. Basically once they would come downstairs if they needed us.

We still use one for DD4.5. We definitely could ditch it, but it doesn’t cause any problems so I’ve never needed to make the change.

It’s just sound (I find the video ones more distracting). She tends to shout out if she needs us rather than coming out of bed in the night, which I prefer.

Never used one. Single storey house(not strictly a bungalow as had guest room and office downstairs)

About 2.5 with our first. With our second child it broke at 9 months and we didn't replace it. Our bedrooms are very close so we def heard him regardless. When napping, I either had to wake him up or he was content on waking and waited until I heard him chatting and came to get him.

We still have one at nearly 5. But DS doesn't get out of bed so we use it to check in the morning if he's actually ready to get up or playing happily by himself.

Never had one, we were never out of earshot until they were old enough to come and find us if there was a problem.

Unsafe?! For what exactly? They’re for babies or young toddlers in cots really, who can’t get up to find you and may be out of earshot due to house layout. We have occasionally used it beyond that on holiday if we’re staying somewhere with an unusual layout but otherwise I don’t why you’d need it. My youngest is 3, haven’t used it in 1.5 years at home and even then it was only really if we were out in the garden as our house is not that big.

Once he was regularly sleeping through the night which was about 16 months. But we sleep with our bedroom door open, so do still hear him if he needs us.

I should... but I just love watching dc sleep! Just so cute

My dd was five but more to do with being able to hear her as her bedroom is too far for us to hear her without.. and she still doesn't sleep through but we are working on this and nearly cracked it !! 👍 once she sleeps fully through we will stop using it, we're on day 4 of her sleeping though so really hope she's cracked it now 🙏

Around 5 but in our old house our bedroom was on a different floor to the DC's. DD may have been a little earlier as we'd moved but kept it as couldn't hear otherwise if we were downstairs and didn't want her falling down the stairs coming to us.

It depends on the layout of your home and will be different for everyone

Thanks I think it will be ok then I haven't missed it so far and I'm never in the garden etc while they are asleep, the house is quite compact.

Never had one with either kid, and never missed it.

Maybe if we lived in a bigger house or bedrooms across multiple floors, but we always heard them just fine.

At 4 and in an otherwise safe room I think they deserve to have a little privacy, to be able to shut the door and have a little singsong or play with their toys without someone being able to constantly watch them.

We never had it on all day. The parent unit was wireless and would have eaten batteries by the bucket load.

Ww just put it on on when DD went to bed and off when she got up.

What baby monitor?

First was around 3.5 because once she was out of her cot she'd come down if she needed us before we went to bed. We had/still have a system of leaving the hall light on when we were downstairs and turning it off when we went to bed so she knew where to find us because otherwise she panics. Second is 4.5 and still has it on when we're downstairs because he sleeps with his door closed and we close the lounge door at night to stop the cats and dogs roaming upstairs once the kids are in bed. Without it we wouldn't hear him crying; he won't come and finds he'd just get more upset.

Never had one! 3 dc have all grown up ok and just shouted if they wanted us, we left doors open and perked in every so often.

In our day the video ones didn't exist though, and we weren't even weird not having one at all when dd1 was born in 2000.

I think I was about 35. His bedroom was next to ours and I could hear him when we moved him in there at 6 weeks.

I liked the fact that in the day rime I could retreat to the kitchen and not hear the crying for 20 minutes. It kept me sane.

Runs very fast to leave thread.

PS: both DC grew up and survived to tell the tale.

About 6 for similar reasons to the above, so we could hear any shouts/illness. If we are sitting downstairs with the door closed and TV on it would be hard to hear.

Now if they need the toilet they will just get up and go themselves or if they need us they will come downstairs so it’s easier.