what age did you stop using a baby monitor in the night?

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I can't tell if we are normal or ultra paranoid!

Use mine religiously but can't hear DD (nearly 11mo) upstairs if the doors are closed. I don't think we'll stop until she's in a bed and can get out and call us if she needs something.

DD is 14 months, we still use one in the evening until we go to bed and will probably carry on doing so until DD reliably doesn't wake up in the evening, or can open her own door and yell, as otherwise we wouldn't hear her from downstairs.

Never used one overnight when we're in bed because we can easily hear her (I am a very light sleeper and she's next door)

DS1 is 4 years old and we still use one :-D

Not because we want to hear any groan he makes, but we use it as a 2-way communicator - so in the night, he uses it to tell us he's wet :-( or he needs a wee (yay!).

We don't need to use it, and it might be totally coincidental, but DS1 never gets out of bed by himself without speaking to us first (so we never had to deal with the toddler that won't stay in bed scenario).

I'm not sure when we'll stop using it, probably when he decides he doesn't want it anymore.

I have a video monitor for 4.5yr DD, as I can see what they are up to at bed time and can intervene (i.e. get to the door and snap at them to get back to bed!) if they start messing about, and a normal sound only monitor for 2.1yr DS, but the latter is only used while we are downstairs in the evening as he would have to be screaming before we heard him due to the configuration of the house - it is turned off when we go to bed as we can hear him in the room next door. Video monitor is left on, but more from habit (in that it's on in the evening and we just forget to turn off) but because no noise is coming from the room the display and sound are off anyway, but it does give us early warning that DD is on her way to pay us a visit in bed as it turns on when she opens her door.

Never used one, they creep me out too much

Never used one with my daughter as when she screamed you could hear her all over England. My son is now 9 months and I still use one with him and have no plans to stop any time soon. He doesn't scream at all, or cry loudly, he just sobs quietly. Plus our house has some weird sound issues. You hear very little between rooms on the main floor (living room, kitchen, master bedroom, unused baby room), nothing at all between the main floor and the basement (where the washing machine is), and every single sound magnified a gazillion times between the main floor and the attic where daughter's room is.

Chipping is spot on. We live in a small 2 bed flat, 13mo DS is pretty much just opposite our room. There's about a metre between our doors. But we need a monitor! The sound insulation here is just incredible, we can barely hear him in the morning without the monitor, even if he cries or makes a lot of noise.

Otoh I have a friend who never used one simply because sound carries so well in her home, which is many times larger than ours. Her DD could be upstairs in bed whilst she is in the kitchen, cooking, TV on etc, and yet she will hear her DD clearly if she calls.