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

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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 )

Soooooooo glad to see this post! My dp thinks I am crazy having the monitor on and my ds is only 10 months!

Ds is 21 months and still have monitor one every night. I want to hear him START to cry, not when he's in full flow. ALSO we have one of those breathing pads, which I'm afraid I still use too - have even set it up to use when camping!

Why do you want to hear every whimper, Gloria and blondi and others

at breathing pad, Iggi!! I could not have stood the stress of false alarms...

Ds is 4.3 and I really wish I could stop using it! One day.............

never used one

never used one. Yes, I think you should have stopped by aged 2 (all things being equal etc etc, only read op)

we have the baby monitor on so we get advanced warning as to when dd 3.5 runs into our room at inpportune moments!

also its easier to hear if ds age 17 months is really crying for something or if he's going to go back to slepp without having to be in the room with him

Never used one.

dd2 is 25 months and we still use hers but her bedroom is in the attic and we wouldn't hear her when we're downstairs. I turn it off at night when we're in bed though.

I still use mine (DD 21m) although I may shut it off at night (and keep the door open)now I've read all of this thread .
But in the evening we can't hear her upstairs at all so have the monitor on low (not for breathing) in case she's distressed - which she has been lately with teething and (we think) night frights. I really don't want her yelling for ages with no-one coming to her. It's just not way we've been with her. But then she is a great sleeper and only yells if something is wrong really.

DD is 3.8 and DS is 20 months. They both have a monitor in their room. We have it on whilst we're still up and watching TV downstairs. We wouldn't hear them otherwise - I know this as we've repeatedly forgot to switch them off and gone upstairs for a pee to find DD sobbing hysterically having fallen out of bed

We switch them off when we go to bed though. They both have their doors shut, we keep ours open. Our bedroom sits in between both of theirs.

Does that count as still having them, or are we talking about keeping the monitor on through the night?

my dd's 4 and i still put it on although dh often turns it off.switch it off when we go to bed.i take it with us when we go away too.

We still use it when we're downstairs watching tv and DS is nearly five. He's going through a run of nightmares though, and if we get there before he's at high pitched scream level we can calm him. If we don't he can be awake for an hour, which let's face it isn't very good. We simply wouldn't hear him without the monitor, so it's a necessity imo.

Never used one and on my third baby now

never used one.i have ears i dont need to be hyper-vigillance for every squeak.i hear something i respond

I use one still for my DS (4) and my DD (2) so that I can make sure they're up to no mischief when they should be asleep in bed. They really believe that I can actually see them from downstairs as a result............

A couple of weeks ago we heard strange noises on ours and went in to find DD2 (6 months) choking on vomit. I will never be able to get rid now! The house is such a weird layout though that I don't even know if they've woken up from a nap or in the morning without it. Wouldn't hear a thing from our living room. And DD1 is 22 months and loud, so I can't see us getting rid until they both drop daytime naps.

Surely the answer OP is simple: wherever you live, if you can hear your child if they're upset you don't need one. Can't believe this thread's on page four..

What smee said.

DS is 2.2 and rarely wakes during the evening now (can guarantee he will now I have said that) but if he did I wouldn't hear him from here. So we have baby monitor on. If I could hear him, I wouldn't.

never used wanted or needed one.

oh LOL i have never thought about how odd we are but ds1 is 6 and we still use it
he does wake up sometimes in the night and need reassuring quite quickly
this way he can just say quietly "daddy!" instead of having to yell

DS1 is now 5, and has just moved into his 3 year old brother's room into bunk beds. We have got the monitor set up in there as it's one you can talk back on and I just can't be arsed going back upstairs to answer random questions about god, the universe and everything that they seem to want to ask just before going to sleep.

Both boys have never got out of bed to come into our room BECAUSE we have the monitor and so go to them instead if they have a nightmare.

Have heard vomiting over the monitor in the past which I wouldn't have heard through bedroom walls.

I think, though, if it wasn't an intercom-stylee one then I wouldn't bother. Its biggest use is definitely to shout at them to go to sleep!

DS is 15 months old.

Had an Angelcare monitor with a breathing pad. Stopped using the pad as soon as DS could move off it and falsely set the alarm off. It works as a normal monitor without the pad too, but rarely use it now and haven't done for a while.

I can usually hear him downstairs but if we have friends over and it's a bit noisy say, then I use it so I can makes sure I can hear. As a rule, I don't bother much anymore though and am so tuned in I'm usually awake/there just before he is anyway, even if it's the middle of the night!