Recommend me a baby monitor for camping

[dumpling123]

Hi all,

Would love your recommendations for a baby monitor that we can use when camping without electricity. Just sound is fine but we'll need both the parent and baby units to be completely battery operated.

Given that tents are made of thin cloth, I doubt you’d need one to be honest! I might be imagining wrong, but are you thinking after baby has gone to bed while you’re by the fire, having a drink/dinner outside? Unless you’re more than 10m away from your tent you will probably hear everything just fine.

I agree with the previous post. If you are in a tent (or even a caravan I’d have thought) you’ll be able to hear every little squeak.
I can’t see why you’d need a monitor at all.

I had a fairly cheap Motorola one that both parts could be battery operated. Have you got a spare phone you could use somehow.

Why would you need one? Surely you’ll just be sat outside the tent when baby is in bed, therefore you’ll hear them?

I think you'll be ok without one. I don't have a baby monitor and have been fine camping and in static caravans and at home, although my house is small.

Dito. Why would you need one?

We have a camper van so it's a bit more difficult to hear baby

Leave a window cracked and put it up when you go to bed. Or you can use your phones on FaceTime or similar. We have a beach hut and even completely closed up we’ve never had any issues hearing dc from quite a distance away. We were taking them from 6 months.

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It was this one OP, not sure it's in stock anywhere. I campervanned with my babies for 6 years, I almost never needed a baby monitor because by the time I'd wrestled the little swines to sleep I was done in and went to bed too, but I did need one if I escaped. Hope you get some sleep. My top tip is take a moka pot and fill it before you go to bed, then you can bung it on as soon as the baby decides it morning

@Thissucksmonkeynuts

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00DDPXF4W/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glt_fabc_DW9NJRPGP18FV97CZ8Z4?tag=mumsnetforu03-21 It was this one OP, not sure it's in stock anywhere. I campervanned with my babies for 6 years, I almost never needed a baby monitor because by the time I'd wrestled the little swines to sleep I was done in and went to bed too, but I did need one if I escaped. Hope you get some sleep. My top tip is take a moka pot and fill it before you go to bed, then you can bung it on as soon as the baby decides it morning

Thank you very much.

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We've used this one for years as both ends are genuinely battery operated. We now have a kodak video one which has a rechargeable battery. The tommee tippee one is simple and robust but the buttons are a little temperamental and it goes through batteries quickly. Great for when kids are in the tent and we're next door in grandparents' caravan for the evening.

We took our eldest camping in a van when really tiny, she slept through for the first time at 6 weeks - we were so knackered we didn't realise how late it was in the morning! We didn't need a monitor as we were so close by all the time, and we had fairly early nights too.

Not sure why you’d need one in a camper van? You’ll all be in a very small space

I know this thread is old, but I recently found out there is a camping specific baby monitor that is completely battery operated and charges with USB.

This website has some great information about it!
https://campingcritterz.com/baby-monitor-for-camping/

If there are two people with smartphones you can use download free apps that turn your phones to monitors. This is what we have done when have gone away. We use babino but purely because it was the first one we came across

Why did the tenth person feel the need to comment the exact same as all 9 previous people did and add absolutely nothing more? If you can't answer, move along. Especially when the opinion itself is unbaised. Plenty of reasons for a wireless baby unit. My baby fell asleep in the car multiple times. I have my own druveway right in front of my house, yet with open windows I am unable to hear him when trying to chill in the living room for that precious one hours or so. He aslo likes the air, often sleep in the pram like people up north in Scandinavia do it all the time. Should normalisebthat btw. Again, I have to constantly have an ear out if I want go hear him and can't have any noise next to me inside. Now in a camp, again the baby may be in the camper van or in the wooden caravans, but even if in a standard fabric tent, let me tell you, the queue in the mornings to the cafe stall is looong. If you were to want to grab a coffe while baby is sleeping how do you do it? God knows how many more situations are there that I haven't came accrosswl, when you'd need a baby monitor like that! And now here I am over 4 years later asking the same question but apparently noone of you ignorants, who left a comment, could answer. Anyone had any luck out there? Thanks in advance.