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Baby Monitor Worries

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EasilyBored · 05/09/2012 09:17

DS is 8 and a bit months, and sleeps in a cot in his own room (quite happily). We have an Angelcare baby monitor, with the movement sensor that goes underneath the mattress. We need to keep the baby monitor because we can't hear him when we are downstairs in the evening and during naps etc. Over night we don't use the monitor because he's in the next room and we can hear him singing to himself and snuffling around his bed all night.

The problem is that he keeps working his way all the way up his cot, and the sensor alarm goes off almost every night. We've tried to reposition the pad, but it doesn't make any difference (is a cotbed, so quite large). My husband commented this morning that he's going to get rid of the sensor pad tonight, and now I'm freaking out. I'm irrationally terrified that he's going to stop breathing, even though he's never had any illnesses or problems. We'll keep the noise part of the monitor, but the thought of not being able to see the little sensor on the monitor ticking to let me know he's still breathing gives me palpitations.

Am I'm being totally irrational and PFB about this?!

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suburbandweller · 05/09/2012 09:42

I think you probably are a bit Wink. At 8mo he's above the highest risk age for cot death and you're going to find that he increasingly moves around his cot so the monitor might be making you worry more than you need to.

If you want to have some peace of mind I would highly recommend a video monitor - it's by far the best thing I was given when I had DS. You can turn the volume up if you want to hear them breathing and you have the benefit of being able to see them moving around in their sleep if you want to. It's also handy if they wake up in the night because you can see if they're settling back down or need you to go in. I still use mine and DS is 20mo.

BikeRunSki · 05/09/2012 09:45

Time to move on from the motion sensor since he is now so mobile. Get an ordinary sound only monitor, or video one, as the previous poster suggested.

trixie123 · 05/09/2012 11:11

yep, in the nicest possible way, you are being a bit irrational. He's 8months, not 8 weeks, he'll be pulling himself up to stand against bars any minute now so really time to ditch the movement sensor.

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valiumredhead · 05/09/2012 13:11

Oh bless you, I'm not laughing, honestly I'm not Wink

What trixie said.

griphook · 05/09/2012 13:56

Have you changed the setting at tfe back of the bit with the circle in, you can change it do it works over a larger surface. Hth

shaky · 05/09/2012 14:01

We use a video monitor, it's great because you can see what they are doing.

It was really helpful when we moved from cot to bed as I could see if he was in bed or not. Sometimes I would see him climbing back into bed, or curling up on the floor with his blanket.

Wigglewoo · 05/09/2012 14:02

He'll be fine. :)

My ds is 11 weeks and sleeps in his own room and cot and sleeps through from 7pm to 3am then 7am (last night slept through)! We have a bt pacifier monitor - its really sensitive, we can hear him breathing on it - it doesn't have an alarm but I'm inclined to think if sids is going to happen it will happen anyway ( we don't have room to have him in our room and we sleep too heavily to co sleep). My dd aged 9 was the same - we just used a digital monitor. I'd be a nervous wreck having on with a breathing alarm! Even ds wiggles all around the cot!

Fizzylemonade · 05/09/2012 16:58

we went from a sensor pad monitor to a camera one, it is fantastic to see your small one wriggling about, sitting up, lying back down, and hopefully sleeping Grin

You just need to remove that pad. It is hard, you will freak about every little new thing, when they learn to walk and run, when they learn to manage the stairs, eat food that you are convinced will choke them etc but it will turn out ok in the end.

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