monitor for three year old?

[Chucklecheeks]

Hi i have a three year old daughter and am 32 weeks pregnant. My daughter still uses a monitor at night as the house has thick walls and we cant hear what is going on at night. I want to pass the more expensive monitor to the baby so i am looking for a basic monitor for my daughter. I want to spend as least as possible but still want the basic function of being able to hear her at night. it does not need any bells or whistles like music or lights.

I hope you can help

Thanks

Can't she just come and find you if she needs you? Or are you very far away? Or does she have a medical condition which means you need to monitor her breathing?

I have the tomy basic one - works fine.

We still have a gate on her door as it is right at the top of the stairs which are very steep, with tiles at the bottom. she goes up and down during the day ok but she has taken on her dads habit of getting up and walking about half asleep so i would not feel comfortable leaving the gate open for her to come and get us. We cant have agate on the stairs as we have not been able to find one that fits.
So i need to hear her calling if she needs the loo Etc..

I'd suggest a BT 150 monitor, there are a lot on ebay at the moment

We had a Tomy one and I found it totally rubbish and couldn't hear anything on it at all.

We've got the BT 150 one as well - it was a reconditioned one from a store on ebay - I think it was around £35

I am genuinely amazed at people who can't hear their children at night - do you live in a mansion? I never saw the need for a monitor when my DS was young and we lived in a fairly big house (and I closed his bedroom door) - the funniest thing I ever saw was visiting a friend who lived in a flat, she had a monitor although the baby was in the room next door .

Ragwort, i live in a two up two down terrace buts its over hundred years old. the walls are really thick and if you are down stairs you can not hear anything going on upstairs.there is a bathroom between us at night and again you cant hear anything.
To imply you are amazed i can not hear my daughter is a bit off though,do you mean you are amazed at what a bad parent i am a bad parent or simply because the walls are thick
Thanks for your suggestions, i will have a good luck on Ebay x

No Chucklecheeks - I am NOT commenting on your (or anyone else's) parenting - I truly am amazed that walls are so thick that you cannot hear a child crying or calling out - I have lived in old and new properties and I just wish I did have better sound proofing! No offence intended. My opinion has always been that baby monitors are yet another marketing hype-up for new parents to feel that they have to spend their money on, but that's just my view .

I like monitors. I nowadays keep ours for when one of the family members is ill in bed. I am doing things around the house, hoovering etc and they can just call me through the monitor. Very useful.

I still use one (ds has a stairgate on his door). I woudn't be able to hear him unless the house was silent.

Plus I would miss listening to him sing/ chat to himself etc. before sleeping/ upon waking

I have to be honest, one of the best times of days is listening to her singing and talking to all her toys before she goes to bed. i would miss that too:)

I can't understand how some people are so surprised that there are circumstances where they are useful.

If we are at home reading quietly in the sitting room, we never used it when the children were babies. If we were watching a movie with all the doors closed, we did.

I would probably eventually have heard them, but not before they'd managed to get themselves into a state, wake the other one up etc.

We still use it when we're staying in a bigger house and they're 2 and 4.