Baby monitor to use in hotel on wifi

[ChampagneLassie]

There are loads of reviewsbut I feel baffled. I want a camera baby monitor which rubs off wifi. Ideally I'd like to use my phone to view or a seperate handset.

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You can't have seen OPs update

She has hired somebody to stay in the room with the Baby.

Great. I'm sure you'll have a much better time.

That’s great but it seems it’s only because the op was made to rather than chose to. I’m still shocked that I was looking for a minor or to leave baby in the first place

I say made to in the sense she has been shamed to

Gosh, sorry for all the typos. Typing on my phone too fast 🤦‍♀️

Mine did. Maybe because they were out and about with us all the time. Or maybe it was just their nature. Who knows?

In any case, leaving your baby alone in a hotel room while you go to dinner isn't the answer. Glad op has apparently realised this.

You simply cannot leave a baby alone in a hotel room. It irresponsible. Your meal out is not more important than your child.

You need to have your baby in their pram with you whilst you eat, it's not appropriate to leave them alone ever

How irresponsible. I’ve lost count of the amount of times my key card has stopped working when I’ve stayed in hotels and I’ve had to go to reception and faff about trying to get it sorted. What if your baby was I’ll or choking and you couldn’t get in? That’s apart from the risk of abduction or fire. Not sure I could eat a meal in a hotel restaurant in those circumstances

Have you ever been in a fire? If the fire is between you and the room, how the hell do you think you would get there? Ridiculous.

And it’s not just an actual fire. If the fire alarm goes off (which has happened to me in hotels three times in my life, and I don’t stay in hotels more than a couple of times a year) you have to be outside for an hour, or more, sometimes much more, while the brigade checks every inch to be sure it’s a false alarm.

Added to all that - how will you relax and enjoy your five star dinner if you have to be tensed run back to your room as soon as your baby wakes or cries?

Some things have to change when you have children. It’s part of the privilege of having them that their safety and comfort comes before your enjoyment.

@HyacinthineMacaw

If your baby is in a room alone then Fire and Rescue would go there first and get them out. They might report you to the police for neglect though.

It's not selfish to want a social life as a parent. But social lives now have to come with appropriate childcare. C'est la vie

This happened in the US recently. The husband had a heart attack and the wife accompanied him to hospital. She called her parents and a friend to go to her young children in the hotel room. Hotel staff wouldn't let them in, police called, mother charged (I think the father passed away). It's not just about how safe your baby might be locked in a hotel room, it's also about what might happen to you which might prevent you from getting to your child. Oh, and in the event of fire you'd absolutely be prevented from going back to your room.

The time it takes the fire crew to arrive, and for you to manage to get to them and tell them your baby is alone - they won't stop and talk to guests!

@BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz

The first thing the Fire Service would do is speak to staff and find out if there are vulnerable people who may be in their rooms.

If you left your baby in a room alone, presumably you would either go and get them, or tell every member of staff you see that they're in there. You would hardly stand outside twiddling your thumbs for an hour while they check them all and find her.

Good luck OP. Once you've navigated the raging inferno, survived an ambush by the violent staff and found your way to your table 20 miles away, you'll have a lovely time.

I'm genuinely surprised at the responses. My instinct is that leaving a stranger alone with my child is higher risk than me watching my child on a monitor. I feel the likelihood of fire alarms or me having a heart attack or some other impediment preventing me returning to the room is less than the risk of a stranger being werid. But I've booked the sitter. Someone asked would I eat at a, neighbours house. , my monitor doesn't range that far and I've not been invited, but yes if it did I would for same reasons. Do babies start randomly choking in their sleep? She's almost 1 not a newborn.

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Sorry the 🤣🤣🤣 in reply to @MGee123

Why not have someone babysit and have a monitor? Then you've got all bases covered?

Why were Mumsnet the first to respond to the OP- I find that strange!

In the overall scheme of things and statistically, the baby is likely to be fine alone in the hotel room, but why take the risk?

Things like croup attacks can very much come on randomly overnight. Or a baby vomitting while alseep. Or just waking up and being disoriented and needing a hug.

In the aftermath of Madeleine McCann there was a lot of debate about leaving children alone in hotels whilst you ate - I never did this but some friends said they did. I'm 68 by the way, for context, and often stayed in top class hotels.

I was always mindful of the risk of fire, plus my now ex-husband was of a culture that had the kids up all night so it was never even considered from a social point of view.

Don't risk it would be my advice.

We've done this. In small hotels, where we were no further from the hotel room than we would be from living room to our baby's bedroom (with a monitor and regular checks). Admittedly my kids were very sound sleepers from early on.

What's the point of mentioning Madeline McCann - it's such an incredibly unusual occurrence.

Admittedly I always think on the bright side and have never hovered over my kids in the playground and let them make their own mistakes. Has served us right until now - both kids happy, non-anxious and well-adjusted.

Surprised at the first reply to this thread. 😳