Using a baby monitor for 4 year old

[Crackthecrocodile]

DC2 is due any time now.
I am still using a baby monitor (just for sound) during the night for 4 year old DC1 as our bedroom is a good stretch along the landing away from her room. If she wakes during the night ill I wouldnt be able to hear her vomiting, which has happened whilst shes asleep a few times. I also cant hear her shouting or crying if she has a nightmare.
I feel its a bit OTT to be using a baby monitor still for DC1 but Ive no idea what else to use?
I have been looking at a cheap monitor for her and the baby will have the one she is currently using (angelcare) but I'm beginning to think that the use of 2 monitors may be a bit much, plus I'm guessing there may be some interference. I'm not sure how to rectify the situation, does anyone else still use a monitor with an older child? Or has any other ideas? Moving her to a closer bedroom is not an option.

We have three kids and three monitors. Layout means we can’t hear them at all otherwise and I don’t want to encourage them to get out of bed and start exploring at night. Think we will keep them till they are quite old...

Get another monitor if it makes you feel better (my kids have voices so loud you bloody well know what they're up to in the next town)... just get one you can switch the frequencies on in case it interferes with your old one would be a plan I'd go for if I was.

DD is nearly 4 and I cant see us dropping the baby monitor anytime soon. Despite being out of a cot bed with side up since she was 18 months old and in a single bed since last year she doesn't not get out of bed if she needs anything. Just lies there asking for help.

Its easier to get her back to sleep if she doesn't have to get up out of bed.

As Grim says get another monitor that you can change frequency on. It needn't be an expensive one.

I bought another monitor for 4 year old DS when baby DC arrived. Think it's a BT one from Argos. Actually prefer it to AngelCare as it holds a charge much longer.

I think a monitor for a 4 yo is ott but my 4 year old can walk into my room if sick, upset, distressed and has never vomited in her sleep. If you want one just get one, you don't need to justify it to anyone.

Seriously considering not posting if you’re going to be rude for no reason, but I found it really hard to find info about having two monitors when we had DC2, so...

We have two basic BT monitors, they don’t interfere with each other. I checked but the model isn’t made any more, else I’d link. I found that googling “twin monitors” gave me more helpful links. It doesn’t seem to be a common thing to have two.

DD (5) will not get out of bed to come find us no matter how upset she is, so a monitor seems to be the only way. I felt like you to start with that it was perhaps a bit OTT, but I’d forgotten about that till reading your thread (our second DC is now 2 so we’ve had the double monitors in place for a while)- just do what works for your family.