AIBU to consider buying baby monitor for 3yo?

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Our baby monitor suddenly stopped working last night. Just out of nowhere.

DD2 is 3, and doesn't sleep through. I can't hear her when I'm downstairs and the tv is on/living room door closed. I can (it seems after last night) hear her from bed, even if it does take me a little while to register when it isn't coming from the monitor by my ear.

I mentioned to a colleague that I would need to buy a new monitor and how expensive they are, especially as we don't want all the fancy extra camera/movement sensors etc. She looked at me as if I was completely insane to still use a monitor at this age. Am I?

(We used a monitor for DD1 until she was almost 4, but only when we were downstairs as the house we lived in then had the bedrooms very far from the living area, and slippery stairs. We stopped using it at night when she was around 3)

YANBU. I have one for my 3.4 yo because when she wakes up she never gets out of bed. If she has a nightmare she'll stay in bed crying and calling for me, without a monitor I would not be able to hear her. Why would I want to leave her alone through that?

Yanbu
I use ours for ds who is nearly 2 as I can't hear him in the night as we have a town house

We spotted a baby monitor in ikea the other week in the ikea family bit, I think it was about £35
I don't know if it has good reviews but I was going to look into it for when ds2 comes along

I've never been unable to hear my DC so didn't bother with them. I am normally a heavy sleeper and never hear the alarm go off in the mornings but I always hear DC crying, getting up, being sick etc.

I've babysat DN a few times, BIL and SIL use one. Good grief it was a PITA I was up and down stairs all night but she only actually woke up once.

At 3? YANBU!

Ours finally bit the dust a few months ago and we have decided not to replace. Dd is 7 and up until a year ago slept in the room next door to the living room . We liked having it, especially in the later years when she wouldn't drop off straight away and would chitterchatter or sing (!) to herself. I didn't and don't care what people think, it suited us.

I still check on her a couple of times before I go to bed to make sure she's still breathing OK.

Panic averted!

DH, possibly afraid of being dragged to baby shops and having to deal with the broodiness that always follows on my part, attacked the monitor with a screwdriver this afternoon.

It is now working again of you balance it just right, don't touch it or breathe too heavily near it

I suspect we have just deferred the decision by a couple of days

I'm half tempted to tell him that he has enough computer parts and bits and pieces around the house to rig up some sort of temporary arrangement. Except I suspect it would mean I don't see him for 3 weeks while he "tests" it and "works out the bugs"

Surfsup - once they were asleep, every few hours, sure!

But after bed time and before they were asleep?! They could be asleep in 10 minutes, they could be awake for an hour. No way to tell without checking on them and making sure they were actually IN their beds.....

And it's a 100 foot garden, so I wouldn't be able to hear them if they called out at all.

Mind you it wasn't bad enough for me to actually go out and BUY a new monitor, but I would probably have used it if I still had it!

We still have one for our 4 year old and probably will for a year or two yet. He's 3 and a half floors away (town house, odd layout) and has been known to semi-wake, cry, try to go the loo and miss all while half asleep. If we have the monitor we can be aware something is going on without him having to negotiate 3 flights of stairs while half asleep to get us!

So it depends on your house and your child and sod anyone that can't understand that.

If you want/need one buy one, it's not up to anyone else. We don't for our two anymore but have just brought a video baby monitor for our dogs that links to our phones. No one else's business but yours