is it weird to still use a baby monitor with a 23 month old?

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still in cotbed rather than bed so until is in normal bed where can get in and out still use monitor

is that odd? do you still use yours?

I use mine with 3 yr old as I wouldn't hear him otherwise.

The whole street could hear my LOs by that age - no need for a monitor

i still use mine as once DS is tucked up and we are downstairs, we wouldn't hear him yelling otherwise

i turn it off when we go to bed

Yep. DD is 23 months (yesterday). I use it because when she is iin bed and I;m downstairs I can't hear her until she is howling and then wide awake and very cross.

I also sleep very deeply so need to have the squawk next to the bed so that someone will hear her.

I'm planning to stop when DC2 arrives in October because will be co-sleeping etc and can't face 2 wide awake babies more than necessary but if DD could get out of bed and come into us it would be a lot easier.

Surely whether you use a monitor or not depends purely on whether you can hear 'em or not without it! Not necessarily on what age they are. We can't hear anything from our kids room when we're downstairs in the eve with the telly on etc.

No, I got sick of mine when Dd1 was about 6mo.
I didn't use it with the next 3. I found I knew when they woke up, weirdly!

How big is your house that you need a monitor to hear a 2yo, Seeline is right, normally the whole neighbourhood can hear my lot too!

DS is 27 months and I still use it downstairs (really dont need it upstairs as we sleep next door).
I dont really need to as I'd hear him making a rumpus, but I like to use it. Don't think its wierd.

I still use mine - DDs are 11 mos, 3 and 5 years. The design of our house is such that you cannot hear a thing from upstairs unless you are in the room directly below it. When DD1 was ~ 2.5, I forgot to switch it on one night, and went into the kitchen. When I went back into the livingroom, I could faintly hear a noise. Went upstairs, she was hysterical with fear because 'I called you, Mummy, and you didn't coooooooome!' She could have been crying for anything up to 20 minutes.

It's a case of whatever suits you best, do it and to hell with what the rest of us think

i still use one for my 3.5 yr old

we used one until dd was 5.2. This was when ds was born. had ds not come along we might still be using it with her . We stopped because when ds was tiny and in our room we didn't want dd's yelling to wake him up....

I used one until ds was 3.5 (when he took it apart) same reason as Poledra -its a great way to ensure you can hear if the house is such that you wouldn't

didn't use one at all for dd3

I use one with DD who is three as we are not guaranteed to hear her otherwise and she doesn't get out of bed even when very upset and in need of a cuddle.

We still use ours for dds who are 3 and nearly 2 and who share a room.

Not a particularly big house but we like to hear straightaway if one of them wakes so that we can nip whatever the matter is in the bud before the other one wakes up too!

we use one for 3 and 2 year old dd's, dd1 has asthma and sometimes if she is wheezy or coughing we wouldn't hear her without it. Dd2 talks in her sleep and i like to be able to hear what she says!

oh thank you soooooooooooooo much!!!!

for your replies!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I still have one in the room that dd2 (4) and dd3(2 and a half) share
I wouldn't hear them from downstairs till they were at full scream else and I'm not into that

I had to buy a new one when my DS started school. We had stopped using it originally when he was about 3, but after he started school, although he seemed quite happy there he went through a period of waking up about 9.30 p.m. and sitting sobbing. One night after he had done this for a while and we hadn't gone to him he came down the stairs and ran up and down the hall really screaming, so after that we bought a new monitor so we could hear him when we woke up.

we never used one because dd is a little on the noisy side, and when she was small we lived in a tiny flat. but if you want to use it, then do, dont worry about being weird, its your child and if it makes you feel better then thats great.

Of course not, I did. I was paranoid that he might wake up choking, or indeed whimpering, in the middle of the night and I wouldn't hear him. The only reason we don't use it now (he' nearly 3) is because he's currently in the same room as us.