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

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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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DwayneDibbley · 12/05/2009 21:56

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Plonker · 12/05/2009 22:01

Ours has been in constant use at bedtime for the last 9yrs

We used it for dd1 then dd2 came along 3yrs later. We still hadn't stopped using it from dd1.

4yrs later along came dd3. We were still using it for 4yr old dd2.

Dd3 is 22 months. It's still on and probably will be forever

Tinker · 12/05/2009 22:02

Never used one

MumOfAPickle · 12/05/2009 22:13

Thank god for Mumsnet! As ever a thread turns up on the exact subject that i've been fretting about pondering

Its so nice to see that I'm not the only one who likes to have the monitor on for comfort. My DS is 14 months and we left our usual one at my DH's parents house at the week-end and I made him dig out our other one. He of course said we should stop using it but I'm just not ready to let go....

Thanks to this I'm going to relax about being a paranoid twonk and embrace my monitor love.

LenniEd · 12/05/2009 22:40

We have one for DD (2.4yo) and for DS (4mo). I keep DS's downstairs but don't listen to breathing or anything, just if he is unsettled and gives me time to finish up MNing before I go up

DD's is kept in our bedroom so she'd have to yell if she woke in the evening but I keep it on so I can tell her it is still the middle of the night through the talkbalk thing when she attempts to wake at 5am occasionally. Well that's what I'm telling myself I have it for anyway

I don't think anything is excessive (well perhaps 16yo might be ) if it makes you feel more comfortable, but if it makes you panic over every noise maybe better off without.

hellymelly · 12/05/2009 22:48

I still use mine in the evenings until I go to bed (dds still in bed with us every night)as although they are 4 and 24months I am bf the little one and if she wakes I need to go to her quickly or she gets really upset and also then wakes her sister up.Our house is quiet but it can be hard to hear them until they are crying at full volume,which I obviously don't want.

Jas · 12/05/2009 22:50

I've never used one. Three children.

plimple · 12/05/2009 22:53

Unless you live in a massive mansion I can't see the point in them at all. Just seem to stress people out and make them disturb their babies every time they move.

mybabywakesupsinging · 13/05/2009 00:31

We still have ds1 on the monitor - he sometimes wakes up at night and will stay wake for hours chatting quietly to his toys unless someone goes in to him and tells him to go back to sleep. Then the next day you wonder why he is such a bad mood...
Ds2 is not on a monitor. Should he wake up he can make his displeasure known over a radius of several miles.

thell · 13/05/2009 00:55

We still use ours, and DD is 3. I'm sure someone must have said this, but I like our monitor because I want to be able to see to DD if she wakes upset or ill BEFORE she is wide awake and screaming. We don't listen to her breathing or anything.

Over the last three years our roles have reversed and now DH is much more worried about making sure it's on than I am! Our house is tiny, btw, but we still couldn't hear her crying upstairs if we had the tv on. We don't need the monitor when we are in bed as the wall is pretty thin between our rooms

GColdtimer · 13/05/2009 09:14

I have one in our kitchen and use it in the evening because we live in a town house and DD is on the top floor and i wouldn't hear her unless she was screaming the place down and she has until recently a pretty bad sleeper. I only use it in the kitchen though, I don't carry it around the house with me. She is 3.

Amanda1977 · 13/05/2009 10:29

I do worry about hearing noises through ours that aren't coming from the baby....the stuff of horror films, what would you do if you heard a deep, scary voice on it????? Maybe I need to stop watxhing "Most Haunted".....lol

PigeonPair · 13/05/2009 13:10

We have two alarms (DS is 4 and DD 10mths) but we are in a 3 storey house and they are on the top floor with their bedroom doors closed (DS occasionally sleepwalks) so we wouldn't hear either of them if we didn't have the alarms.

ProfYaffle · 13/05/2009 13:13

Amanda, I worry about that too! I always half expect to hear the sound of footsteps crossing the room

PigeonPair · 13/05/2009 13:15

Should probably clarify - when I say we wouldn't be able to hear them, I obviously mean if they had bad dream/were sick. I don't sleep with the alarm taped to my ear listening for signs of breathing!!

claraquack · 13/05/2009 14:00

We stopped using it with dd1 when dd2 was born - not because we needed it for dd2 (she was with us all the time at first) but because dd1 suddenly developed a fear of it.

We still use it now for dd2 (17 months) in the evening as w wouldn't necessary hear her in her room if we had the tv on etc. I also find it really useful to take into the garden while she is having her daytime nap.

Lishylooloo · 13/05/2009 15:08

We got an Angelcare monitor (the one that beeps if it stops detecting movement such as breathing) as we were checking DD every two seconds when she was born as we were scared she might stop breathing (she was perfectly healthy, we were just being freaks). When we got the monitor we sort of got a bit of peace of mind and hence slept better. Now DD is 1 and we have the sound on when we are watching TV etc as we wouldn't hear her. But when we are in bed I turn the sound off as her bedroom is right next to ours and the doors are open, but I leave the movement detector on - how pathetic am I ?

peg1 · 13/05/2009 16:26

We bought one but never used it. My friend's wee boy is 4 in Aug and she is still using hers!

muffle · 13/05/2009 16:29

We still have ours on at night - he's nearly 4. It's basically changed from a listening device into a 2-way radio so we can talk to him if he wakes up too early and tell him to go back to sleep for a bit, without having to get out of bed

I also take it with us when we go away as we can be some distance away from him in a big house, eg my mum's house.

hellywobs · 13/05/2009 17:01

I didn't use one at all.

cbellesmum · 13/05/2009 18:15

hi there
i would say when you feel comfortable - DH always said i wa ssome kind of odd ball too.
DD's broke when she moved bedroom she was 4.

lynniep · 13/05/2009 18:18

outs is still on (DS is 2.2) and to be honest we don't really need it. We can hear him if he really wants to be heard. But now he's starting to chatter to himself after we leave him to drop off and the stuff he comes out with is really funny. So we keep it on

LilianGish · 13/05/2009 18:20

Never used one - could always hear them when they needed to make themselves heard!

ilovesprouts · 13/05/2009 18:25

i still use mine as my son has gdd/sn and he does not talk at 29months so we only know if somethings wrong with him if he cries and will use it untill i need to

BlueberryPancake · 13/05/2009 18:56

Stopped when youngest one was about 18 months. But then recently we put them both in the same bedroom and there was a bit of trouble as oldest one was doing his best to keep his youngest brother awake so it came out again.

Also, my youngest can has asthma attacks when he has a cold, so when ill the monitor is on all night. Or he sleeps in our bedroom.

It's really up to you

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