Baby monitors

Their faces all seem the the same to me at that age John ?

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Originally posted by Mike Hughes:
Anyone got any advice re: good products? Analogue versus digital; extra features etc?

Cheers,

Mike

Digital is best. I bought one of these:
http://www.reviewcentre.com/reviews13552.html
Very good, low noise, huge range, no interference, long battery life (both parts if desired) but have had to return once when the parent unit speaker failed.

so I would get digital and one with a remote temperature measure would have been useul with hindsight.

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Originally posted by Berlin Fritz:
Their faces all seem the the same to me at that age John ?

That is saying something!

Got there in the end


Mind you they can still be very dangerous if you leave food scraps about by accident !

Ha ha ha !!! Very good Fritz

Now, any more serious suggestions???

Mike

What do you want one for?

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What do you want one for?

Maybe there's some confusion over terms here that eludes me but I have a nearly 10 week old baby son who has virtually outgrown his moses basket and is to be moved to the cot in his bedroom. He tends to sleep well from around 8 at night until 11 when he feeds and, in the interim, we'd like to get on with our lives listening to music etc. whilst at the same time being able to hear if there is a problem.

There seems loads of products at Mothercare etc. but no real guidance. The advice on here re: car seats was top notch and so I was rather hoping for the same from that group of people.

Mike

Sorry, Mike, I wasn't being facetious - we have 2 children, now adolescents, but never felt we needed a baby alarm/monitor. We found we could hear any sounds of distress quite readily simply by leaving doors open.

One potential problem with alarms/monitors is that you find yourself listening to nothing else and panicking when there is the slightest "change".

Nigel,

No offence taken. I was just fascinated by the number of people with an opinion as to how to get a baby to sleep as opposed to the number of people with advice re: baby monitors. The latter was negligible and the former was significant.

In the end we went for a BT digital model that was £20 less and offered temperature info. as well as various tunes.

Mike

PS: Leaving the door open is probably not an option when I have headphones on or the speakers at a reasonable volume. The BT model flashes whenever there is a noise above a trigger level. That did it for me.