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When did you get rid of the 'monitor'?

17 replies

Tw1nkle · 09/02/2011 09:45

Hiya,

My DD is 2.3 and we still have the monitor on when she naps and at night.

My DH thinks we should switch it off now - when did you all get rid of the monitor?

Thanks.

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3timesalady · 09/02/2011 09:49

I got rid of ds1 monitor when I gave birth to ds2 & needed it for him. Same - ds2 gave it up when I had ds3, so that's 20 months & 22 months respectively.

As long as you can hear her crying from downstairs, she's old enough that you don't need to hear every snuffle.

Br brave!

sillyme · 09/02/2011 09:54

I stopped using it when my dd started using it as a means of communication! (By that I mean she would ask us to come to her room, or tell us that she still wasn't tired and so couldn't go to sleep.) Suppose she was about 4 when she twigged.

PaperView · 09/02/2011 09:56

I forgot to unpack it when we moved into this house when DS3 was 8 weeks old

If it's a comfort to you then move it a bit further away every night until its ridiculous to have it on in the first place.

TheSugarPlumFairy · 09/02/2011 10:02

dd is 10 months. i use it when she is napping and i am downstairs and at night when we are still up. When we go to bed i turn it off as we are in the next room and i can hear her through the wall if she wakes.

I used to have it on through the night but found myself being woken up by every little snuffle and fart.

sparkle1977 · 09/02/2011 10:37

We stopped using ours for DS1 when he was about 20 months as DS2 came along and we used it in his room.

Then we put the two DS's into the same room and we used it in their room until they were about 4 and 2.5yrs respectively.

It was slowly starting to conk out anyway so just decided one day to bin it.

Pterosaur · 09/02/2011 10:42

When you realise that your child is crying in stereo, turn the monitor off and still hear her in mono.

Probably more to do with house size and layout than age of child, but I agree that most 2 year-olds can probably make themselves heard without amplification.

Dropdeadfred · 09/02/2011 10:44

We still use ours for our dd3 aged 5

ronshar · 09/02/2011 10:44

I didnt have a monitor because all of my children were born without volume control.
I could hear them the minute they decided they wanted attention.

potplant · 09/02/2011 10:47

Mine stopped working after it had been thrown down the stairs one too many times. I was considering replacing it but DH wouldn't let me. DTs were 2.5 and had no trouble making themselves heard.

MoragG · 09/02/2011 11:35

Same as SugarPlumFairy. We only use it for naps and in the evenings when we are downstairs. We too can hear every little moan and squeak through the bedroom wall! DD is 13 months.

mindtheagegap · 09/02/2011 13:13

Same as ronshar - didn't see the point in a monitor as we live in a little terrace house and there was no chance of not hearing DD!

HackneyHackette · 09/02/2011 21:25

We stopped using the monitor for DS1 during the night first, and just left the door of our bedroom open, this was about 1.5 I think. We used to use it in the evening as I wasn't sure I could hear with the TV on, but stopped that a few months later (after DS1 threw it down the toilet and it stopped working...)

Didn't use monitor for DS2 at all until we moved from small two storey flat to large house when he was 8 months, now we are using it and seem to have to go up to him a lot more in the evening - I suspect we weren't hearing a lot. Tempted to turn it off again.

CrispyTheCrisp · 09/02/2011 21:26

About 20 months IIRC

gallifrey · 16/02/2011 14:47

Didn't have a monitor either, we lived in a tiny cottage so there was no way we wouldn't hear her.
I now live in a 4 bed town house so we will probably get one for this baby, although I hope I don't turn into one of those weirdo mums that have to sit next to it and hold it up to my ear like my friend does with her 18 month old!

TallulahDoesTheHula · 16/02/2011 14:51

I've still got one for DS aged 5!
Only use it in the evenings though when we are downstairs with door shut watching TV and the DCs are in bed upstairs (town house)
Have never used it at night as DCs bedrooms are all on the same floor as our, pretty much next to each other and we can easily hear the children without a monitor

Does your DD still wake at night regularly? Is she is a cot that she cant get out of to get to you? Is her room far enough away that its hard to hear her from your bedroom at night?

If NO to all of those then you dont need the monitor any more

snowcake · 16/02/2011 16:52

when she turned 2. dd2 had come along and she was wailing every night, for no reason at all, just wanting attention. we let this go on for another month then got rid of it. she's old enough to wait and even though we have a big house i can hear her as she's banging the bottle on her cot railings...

Go with your own feelings. We lock our dd in at night because our 2 staircases (down and to roof) is so wide we can't even fit extendable gates and I don't trust her with plugs and sockets, high voltage TV cables in upstairs living room area. The house is vast and the walls are thick so the monitor's reach is limited. We often leave our door open at night to hear her.

snowcake · 16/02/2011 16:52

dd1 was the wailing one

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