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When did you give up the baby monitor?

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Carsandtrucks · 09/05/2014 08:43

Little one is just over 1 and have another on the way. We use one of those fancy pants pressure pads with video and sound at the min which has been great because your mind is at rest that they are ok.
I'm not sure if you can have a house with 2 monitors in (as they might interfere??) so wondering whether to just use it for the little one.
Just wondering when you all stopped using your monitor. I must admit we can hear him through the wall anyway....

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Melonbreath · 09/05/2014 08:57

17 month old dd has hers on when we're downstairs on an evening. I turn it off when we go to bed as we can hear her shouting from upstairs.
You can have two monitors on at the same time. When we stay at friends we both have our monitors on, they're different types though I don't know if that makes a difference. I guess if you set them to different channels you'd be ok.
Our old next door neighbours had the same monitor as us and until we changed the channel we could her their dd through our monitor. Gave us a few frights when we heard the dad, sounded like someone was upstairs!

CarpeJugulum · 09/05/2014 09:01

Well, DS is three and a half and we still use ours; but we sleep on different floors. I think if we were on the same floor it would be off at night, but on when we were downstairs.

For what it's worth, my friends used two monitors (different makes, angelcare and BT) and they were fine. They just swapped the pressure pad one to the new baby.

Only1scoop · 09/05/2014 09:05

Dd was 3.5 was just a sound one though no pads alarms etc.

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guinnessgirl · 09/05/2014 09:10

We stopped using ours just before DS was 3, when he went into a proper bed. We figured that if he needed us he could get out of bed and get us! TBH, we were a bit pfb about him really - we could probably have given up the monitor at least a year previous to that, as he could have shouted for us

YesAnastasia · 09/05/2014 09:10

We have one for when they're asleep upstairs & we're downstairs with the tv on or company (we can hear both DC through one) but we stopped using one in our bedroom when our youngest was about 2.

Will baby be in your room at first? You could just carry on as you are & see how you feel when they both settled.

lucy101 · 09/05/2014 09:11

We have two of the same make (makes charging easier as we can have bases around the house) and have had no problems with interference. Ours are 3 yrs and 6 weeks. The 3yr old often throws up do thats why we are still using the monitor.

BuggedByJake · 09/05/2014 09:17

Around 12mhs with first ds then didn't bother with 2&3. They were much better sleepers, probably because we weren't going upstairs everytime we heard them on a monitor!

addictedtosugar · 09/05/2014 10:53

About 9 months with DS1, when I slept through the low battrey warning beeing for about 90 mins, but woke up to a call from DS1.

DS2, can't remember. Poss not at all, as I was in with him til about 8 months when he stopped feeding at night.

spritesoright · 09/05/2014 11:14

Trying to remember, maybe 18 months or earlier? She was sleeping through at that point anyways and very good at making herself heard if necessary. Her room was just down the hall and both doors open so I didn't see the point. I think DD's mission over the first year was to attune me to her needs via sleep deprivation/reprogramming so I always wake up when she needs me...

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captainproton · 09/05/2014 14:01

our monitor packed in when DC1 was about 12 months old. DC2 was born 2 months later and seeing as he never likes to be more than 3 feet from mummy when sleeping we just never replaced it. At 8 months he is still in our room.

DC1 is 21 months and we keep the door ajar at night, our house is a shoebox and hoenstly we didnt need the monitor once DC1's lungs were large enough to do some pretty impressive wailing.

drivenfromdistraction · 09/05/2014 14:06

We've got 3 monitors! One does interfere with the others, but not if it's positioned a bit further away from them. Still using them for 6yo, 4yo and 2yo, though not after we've gone to bed, just while we're downstairs and the kids are in their beds. Our house is very vertical and the living room is 2 floors below their rooms. Can't hear anything up there without the monitors if we have the TV on.

It's just reassurance for the older ones, though the 2yo can wake up and shout for us, so need it for her. I just don't like the feeling that one of them could be calling and we wouldn't know. In practice though, they just come downstairs if they need anything. Can be useful if they are wandering into each others' rooms and chatting/arguing when they're supposed to be asleep!

SpecialStuff · 09/05/2014 14:10

Dd is 13 months. I've got an angel care pressure pad and sound monitor. Not used the pressure pad for about 3 months now as she was setting it off every other night when moving round in her cot.

I use the sound still when she's in bed at night and I'm downstairs but turn it off when we come to bed as her rooms right next door to ours and I can hear her loud and clear.

cowbiscuits · 09/05/2014 14:13

We stopped using ours when DS was about 10 months maybe. Our house is very small, and sound travels. There wasn't much need for it. In a big old house I would have one.

At night he's in the next room and the doors are ajar. If we were downstairs watching TV we still would hear him.

Thurlow · 09/05/2014 14:16

Still use a sound monitor in the evenings and sometimes for naps with our 2yo. It depends what we're doing but if the doors are shut and the telly was on they could be screaming blue murder and we wouldn't hear, so I prefer having the monitor on, if only just to hear when they wake up.

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