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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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norktasticninja · 10/05/2009 14:18

Blimey ilovemydog, that must have been awful.

DD is 17 months and we still use hers when she's in bed in the day time and in the evenings too. Our house isn't very big but she likes to sleep with the door shut and I'm not used to having to keep my ears pricked up... At night I leave our door open and hear her with no problems so don't use it.

We've just bought a second one for DC2 who's due in June

difficultdecision · 10/05/2009 17:18

We had a breathing monitor and video monitor until he was 15m (last month) then went cold turkey and it's been fine. We are in a small flat though so I know if he is upset.

TabithaTwitchet · 10/05/2009 17:30

We never had one, but DD (nearly 17 months) still sleeps in our room so we can easily hear her. In the evening we have the door open so we can hear her when we're downstairs - downside is she can also hear us.
I am reassured at night be hearing her breathing, and wouldn't possibly be able to sleep if she was in a different room, so if you are like me then I'd say keep the monitor

MmeLindt · 10/05/2009 17:34

Stopped using ours when the DC were old enough to come through to the bedroom or shout downstairs if they needed us.

Still use it occasionally (in fact had to buy a new, cheapie one) when my parents are babysitting as they sleep down in the cellar and are a bit deaf might not hear the DC through the door.

[hopes Mum is not lurking as she insists that her hearing is fine]

Aranea · 10/05/2009 20:44

dd1 is 4 and still has hers!

It has a different role though now... she asks if it's OK to get up in the morning, and we're able to say 'no, it's too early, stay in bed...'

And she can ask for anything she needs rather than getting up and wandering around, which I prefer as she will go back to sleep again faster.

And if she has a nightmare or growing pains I can hear her crying and go in to comfort her.

How on earth am I ever going to get rid of the thing??

ohdearwhatamess · 10/05/2009 20:53

Never used one with ds2, used for a few weeks only with ds1.

flowerybeanbag · 10/05/2009 20:58

Hi giddy

DS is also 2 next week, as you know..

We still use our monitor. However our house is long and thin, and his room is through a door and down another corridor from ours so unless he was literally screaming the place down we wouldn't hear him. Similarly, when we're downstairs in the evening, his room is the other end of the house so there's no way we'd hear him crying.

vodkaandcoke · 10/05/2009 21:10

My son is 3 and my daughter 1 and we have one for each of them as we still use them when we're downstairs as we wouldnt hear them crying. They're turned off when we go to bed.

TheYearOfTheCat · 10/05/2009 21:24

Stopped with DS when he was about 18 or 19 months old.

As a NSC, we don't really want to hear him crying.

Aranea · 10/05/2009 21:57

What's a NSC? (am I being thick?)

TheYearOfTheCat · 10/05/2009 22:08

Neglected second child

SazzlesA · 10/05/2009 22:16

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MrsKitty · 12/05/2009 08:24

DS is 2.3 and we still use ours as our bedroom is a floor above his...He's also our alarm clock! (or the sign that we can't press the snooze button any longer! )

GooseyLoosey · 12/05/2009 08:26

Just under 2 (as it died because ds had discovered it and liked to play)

PatTheHammer · 12/05/2009 08:38

Turned mine the hell off after I heard ghostly voices when DD was about 10mths. Not sure where it is now and DS is 4mths but our house is v.small.

MeAndMyMonkey · 12/05/2009 12:52

Still use a monitor for dd who is 2 and a half... we also have a tall thin house, lots of floors, and simply wouldn't hear her - even screaming - in the evenings from our basement where we watch telly etc.

I don't think it's a matter of being precious really - as ILMD said earlier, it was only because of the monitor that I heard dd being really violently sick in her bed one night, also when she had croup. I am not in the habit of checking her in her sleep for no reason, and the monitor just reassures me.

Plus we also talk to her on it, tell her to go back to sleep if having a bad dream or something, to which she often replies in a sad little voice: 'Thanks monitor' .

I don't use it when we go to bed as we are only one floor below her and i assume would hear if she was in any way distressed.

OrmIrian · 12/05/2009 12:53

Before we started. Never had one. When they were very tiny they were always in the same room as us I suppose.

Lizzylou · 12/05/2009 12:55

Hmm, despite living in a new build with thin walls, still had a monitor for DS1 until he was about 3 yrs old and DS2 until he was 2.5!
I am very paranoid

imoverhere · 12/05/2009 12:59

DD is 3yrs 5 mths and only stopped using monitor when 3yrs 3 mths when we pinched it for DS (just over 11wks). My bro and SIL gave me a few 'looks' when they found out we still used it, but my house my child.

I'd say do whatever makes you feel comfortable and sod anyone else.

madwomanintheattic · 12/05/2009 12:59

dd2 is 5.5 and in the last month we have started only using it for the 'light' option rather than listening. we still have it on listen if she's unwell though.
we're moving in the summer and so we won't be able to use it. i refuse to buy a new one for a nearly 6yo, so it will go at that point.

squeaver · 12/05/2009 13:02

see this thread for my PFB-ish nonsense on giving up the monitor.

nickytwotimes · 12/05/2009 13:03

We use ours when he is in bed and we are downstairs as in our house, you would never hear him. It is off overnight though as we would never get any sleep!

When we hopefully move to our wee modern bungalow, we will dispense with it.

He's 3 in July.

SarahL2 · 12/05/2009 13:10

I am slightly deaf so we still use a monitor as I worry that I wouldn't hear DS (who is 2) even though we are on the same floor at night and our house isn't very big.

Will swap it over as soon as we have another child as he should be big enough to come and get me if he needs me at that point.

I think, if it makes you feel reassured, keep it.

JemL · 12/05/2009 14:38

At 9 months, when we moved from a small 1 bedroom flat to a small 2 bedroom.

I know it makes no sense to stop using the monitor when DS went into his own room, but at least two other people in our new build block had the same monitor, and it drove us mad (once the snooping novelty had worn off!)

Gloria42 · 12/05/2009 15:02

My name is Gloria, I am an Addict. I still have mine on every day and DS is 2.4

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