When did you stop using a monitor

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I am a deep sleeper so use the monitor on at full volume so I wake up if DD does. She has been a poor sleeper forever but does mostly go through now, she is 22m.

DP says I should switch it off as we will hear her if she really needs us - but I am not so sure.

Any thoughts?

I never used one. I sleep pretty soundly, but always found that I heard the kids - until they started sleeping through and then I never heard them when they did wake.

My DD is 3yrs old, i still use mine as i go into such a deep sleep i know i'd never hear her!

DD2 is going to be 2 next week and we still use her monitor (a sensor one) as she has had a few apneia episodes and now she gets out of the bed herself so the alarm goes off!! cue dh an i rushing up into her bedroom to make sure she is okay.

CS - I think that is why DP wants it off!

lol, might work the other way though - once they were sleeping through I just didn't hear them when they did wake, but ex did and so he had to get up.
Was wierd when ds2 was born and I was feeding, I just stopped hearing ds1 at all (at night).

I haven't stopped yet - ds is 5
he sometimes has a bad dream and tbh I sleep through it now unless the monitor is on - if he has to come in and get us he is usually that much more awake, frightened and hard to settle, so it's a purely selfish / lazy thing for me

Never used one. My 'mumdar' picks up sniffles and cries in the next room.

Depends how big the house is. Our house is pretty tiny, so with DD2 I stopped using the monitor at about 3 months (she was sleeping through by then), but left both our doors open so I'd always hear her and wake if necessary. When at DH's parents' house though I always take the monitor with me as their house is huge and I wouldn't hear anything even if they were both screaming the place down!

Starlight - that is DPs theory. He recons she can hear herself so crys more. He may be right so I am turning it down a little tonight. One notch a week I have promised him

She was ill recently so I was glad I had it, especially after she cracked her head open and I had to sit up all night. On a normal night though there really is no need, just a bad habit of mine.