Long distance baby monitor?

[leli]

Hi, family with babies and toddlers are joining us for Christmas. We are in a detached house in a quiet rural village. The house is close to neighbours, say 2 metres apart? Our neighbours on one side are away and we are renting their place for a few days to house some of our family. We’d love to be able to get together in our house for evenings but little ones will be sleeping in neighbours house. If we can source a continually on sound and vision monitor do you think this would be safe?

if so any monitor recommendations?

I’ve been wondering about a Nest security camera because our outside one works brilliantly.

No I wouldn't feel safe being in a separate house from the children even if there was a monitor. Gather in the neighbours house or bring the children to yours.

I wouldn't be happy with this a a parent. But I'd very happily bring a baby/toddler over, make them a nest somewhere to sleep and then carry them back to the house where I was staying.

Thanks both. Unanimity so I won’t invest in a monitor. We’ll do big lunches instead!

I will disagree with PP and say that I would do it. I live in an apartment block and I've been for dinner at my neighbour's house 2 floors above ours, leaving the baby asleep in our flat and watching on the baby monitor. I don't see it as different to people who have big houses and have the baby asleep a floor or two above or below where they are. In your case, it's technically a different house but you could be there in a minute if you needed to be. Can't see what the problem is.

I would do it. It’s no different to us being out in the garden (more than 2 metres away). We also live very rurally, so not exactly people like randomly lurking about.

What friends have always done is set up FaceTime. One leaves a phone with baby and the other brings theirs so they keep the FaceTime call going all night. You get both sound and video and distance is irrelevant. That said you may find your monitor works, so worth a try. We could get well down our lane before it cut out and it was just a cheap sound only one.

Thank you for your thoughts everybody. I've been massively helped. For one I've realised it's quite personal and I'll have to let each family decide what they're comfortable with and I now have an instant solution - the FaceTime idea. So I feel I'm covered. This is a post M.M. world and safety is paramount.

Personally i wouldn't feel comfortable doing that. Just my opinion though.

Could you get a few travel cots/ these type of things for bigger ones? Have them in one of the rooms in the house for the kids to go down in and then transfer them to their beds later?

Not sure how old the children are and how much alcohol the adults would be having to carry them though! Just an idea.

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Seriously there are ignorant people who leave children unsupervised in separate buildings today?

How on earth can anyone with any intelligence believe this is acceptable. Fires can start, children can vomit choke etc, a break in. But hey sure as long as the adults get to have fun 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️