At what point do I need baby monitors?

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I won't need these to start with as baby will always be with me, right?

We used it from about 6 months when in own room, including sensor mat, still use both now at 2.5! Sensor mat is incredibly useful with a toddler as you know they're still in bed and not just quietly causing chaos! Although you might be able to hear top of voice crying, we wouldn't hear moaning or whimpering without it, particularly if watching a film or something so it's very useful still.

We never had them either, DSs are 15 and 14 now and I'd probably quite like to listen in on what they are up to :o

Re: babies are loud. I would assume only some babies. My DD isn't loud if she wakes up from a nap, it would take quite a long time for her to be upset enough to be that loud by which point she would have been awake for a long time. The monitor saves all that.

Didn't use, they have always slept in living room with us as babies then into our room with us, usually our bed. So never alone.

We used one from the beginning because of the apnoea mat, and then started putting DS to sleep in our room in the early evening at about 5 weeks old, so used it then. DS went into his own room last night!!!! At 4 months so use it all the time now.

I come from a country where nobody uses these things and everyone co sleeps! So yes for me it's one of the many things I've been lewrning in the west.

We will both be on shared parental leave for three months and baby in same room as us for 6 months and we've got a crib upstairs as well as downstairs. We've got one already and we faff around with it as a Walkies talkie but don't think will use it for a while, baby due next montn

We brought baby monitors with a breathing mat for both DDs as we wanted to get them into a good bedtime routine and have a bit of an adult only evening.

From about 2/3 months would put DD in cot at bedtime and nap time and use monitor and breathing mat, then when they woke would co-sleep for the rest of the night until we moved them into their own rooms (5 months for DD1 and 7 months for DD2), we found the breathing monitor a godsend then, as we found a baby who had been used to sleeping on the boob all night was no way going to settle on their back, so we would lay DDs to sleep on their front - obviously it is not advisable.

My baby is now 3 months and I wouldn't have been without breathing monitor mat - don't think I'd sleep without it.

We bought an expensive one where you can see baby on app on phone, play lullabies etc....(partner works away so we NEEDED these that badly he bought them despite me saying no at 28 weeks pregnant)....son is 9 weeks old and they are still in box, never been opened/looked at and partner said when he goes in own room we need a different (basic type) monitor....if only he listened to me originally don't waste your money, they aren't essential.