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DP wants to know when you all stoppe using baby monitors?

134 replies

giddykipper · 09/05/2009 22:20

DS is 2 next week, I still keep it on all the time he's asleep. DP thinks I'm a freak and that no normal person would still have it on.

He said "go ask your freaky mates what they think" (that'll be you lot then )

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kickassangel · 10/05/2009 01:35

tell your freaky dh, when dd could get out of bed for herself, and yell for me (about 2)

SOLOisMeredithGrey · 10/05/2009 01:47

Dd is 28 months and still has the movement/sound monitor on. Just feel happier with it on. Can't remember when Ds stopped having a normal sound one on, but I reckon it was at about 2.

MamaMimi · 10/05/2009 02:05

dd nearly 5 and still use one every evening and night - our choice.

StripeyOss · 10/05/2009 03:52

DS is nearly 3, we still use his every night.

DuffyFluckling · 10/05/2009 04:26

Never used one. Don't have a massive house though, and we don't close doors.

We do have one kicking about somewhere that we use when we go to stay with inlaws (massive house, bedroom far, far away from sitting room), or when we have a party so might not hear crying over the noise.

seeker · 10/05/2009 05:36

If it makes you feel more relaxed then keep it as long as you like at night time. Having it on during the day when they aren't babies any more goes against my idea that children have a right to privacy.

Allegrogirl · 10/05/2009 08:38

Never had one as I developed super human powers of hearing when dd was born. If you want to use one though what's the problem? Use it as long as you feel you need or want to.

ByThePowerOfGreyskull · 10/05/2009 08:39

turned ours off at 2 weeks with DS1 and didnt use it at all with DS2.

PeppermintPatty · 10/05/2009 08:41

About 3 months old.

cluckyagain · 10/05/2009 08:41

We had monitors on ours for quite a long time, for my son it was til he was about 4/5!! The main reason was because we had lots of babysitters who didn't hear the children as easily as we did. Also, my ds in particular would never get out of bed but just shout and shout getting increasingly upset (and then wake up the younger two)

MarthaFarquhar · 10/05/2009 08:45

DD is 2.2, and we stopped using ours a while back. We use it on the odd occasion when we have folks round in the evening, and DD might otherwise struggle to be heard over the clinking of wine bottles music and chat.

Weegle · 10/05/2009 08:52

At 2.11 we still use ours and have no intention of stopping. Despite being physically capable of getting out of bed and coming and finding us DS wouldn't, he would just get in to a complete meltdown, and I (with a hearing loss) simply wouldn't hear him if I was in the lounge with the TV on (or even with it off). Even DH with his super human hearing can't hear DS from his room if he's downstairs - it's not a big house but it is old and the walls are very solid, you can't even hear from one room to the next. I don't see the problem - if you can't hear them, doesn't it make sense?

Foxy800 · 10/05/2009 08:57

We stopped using ours at about 2 I think because we moved house and in our new house you could hear her so no need for it.
Personally I think it is personal choice and when you feel comfortable to stop using it.

gingerwench · 10/05/2009 12:37

about 9 months. He moved into his own room at 7 months and I found I could hear his yells plenty loud enough and I didn't want to go to him at every little whimper in his sleep. May still use it if I want to be out in the garden and he is sleeping.

Poledra · 10/05/2009 12:51

We still use ours (5yo, 3yo and 9mo) as our old house has very thick walls. When DD1 was about 2.5, I forgot to switch it on one night - when I finally heard her crying, she was hysterical.

Don't use it when we're upstairs ourselves, as I can hear them well enough then, only when we're still downstairs. I have it switched on now as DD3 is upstairs for her nap.

RedEmma · 10/05/2009 13:02

I think it's appropriateness depends on whether it makes you more relaxed or more anxious.

bigchris · 10/05/2009 13:04

we never had one

lljkk · 10/05/2009 13:27

I also nevr had one, 4 dc, too. I thought I was the only person in the world who didn't regard them as absolutely essential. Big house... I just checked on them a lot. Baby' naps are all in pram outside, anyway.

edam · 10/05/2009 13:33

We've only recently stopped using ours and ds is nearly six. In our defence, we live in a three storey house and you really can't hear anything from the top floor when you are downstairs (or from the front when you are at the back on a different level - had to put a windchime on the front door once ds worked out how to open it).

HeinzSight · 10/05/2009 13:36

DD is 20 months and we have a new LO due in 3 months and will probably buy a second monitor for the new baby's room. DD woke up at 3am last night very upset, not a frequent event here at all, but I'd hate to think of her crying for ages if I was having a heavy sleep. Also, I wouldn't be able to here them from downstairs.

ilovemydogandMrObama · 10/05/2009 13:45

DS (14 months now) sleeps on the 3rd floor and am very very glad we had one. Without the monitor we wouldn't have heard him choking...

edam · 10/05/2009 13:48

Christ, Ilovemydog, that's very scary. What did you do?

pooka · 10/05/2009 13:50

We still use our monitor. We are in the loft, children the floor below. DS tends not to leave his room when he wakes, so wouldn't come up to get us if he needed anything, and so the monitor is on the first floor landing.

pooka · 10/05/2009 13:52

Oh and ds is 3 and dd is 5. If we were on the same floor as them I wouldn't use it tbh. Walls very thick here as well.

I don't see the harm myself.

ilovemydogandMrObama · 10/05/2009 14:01

Ran up the stairs and called ambulance

By the time the ambulance got here -- 3 minutes, he was crying, which was great! Still went to Children's hospital though...

Am keeping the monitor switched on until he leaves home

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