Baby Monitors

Hi,

First time mum question here. we are at the stage of buying final bits and pieces and I have been looking at baby monitors and kind of suprised by the range and the price!!!!

For those who have babies what kind of monitor did you get, i don't know if the monitor that tells you if the baby has stopped breathing is a great idea or something that would make me totally paranoid.

I guess its a preference thing, but any advice anyone has on this would be great!!

We have a Philips one - they are a well known name and are among the cheapest out there. I don't feel that I need a sound and movement one (at first I hadn't even heard of them anyway) because you get into baby's routine pretty easily and in the early days I check them pretty regularly out of paranoia anyway LOL.

I like the monitor we have. It's enough to hear baby when she's otherwise just a bit out of earshot. It depends on your house, too. We didn't bother getting one until we needed to shut baby's door (that was when we had a toddler as well LOL).

Haha, I have a spreadsheet too, and write what I want, make model and which shop is cheaper

We have the angelcare sound and movement, I have found it reassuring rather than making paranoia worse. We have to keep his door shut cos of having 4 cats so is hard to check on him so this gave me piece of mind. I still use it during the day as it can be hard to hear him if I am in the kitchen/laundry.

We have had the alarm go off twice but both times were due to the pads having moved (I changed his bed and must of disturbed them) and he had then wriggled in the opposite direction and it just couldnt' pick him up. This only happened when he was quite small though, and although it was a frightening dash to his room it was quite reassuring to know that at least it works.

We managed to buy one second hand for $120 off trademe so you don't need to spend mega bucks on one. Just make sure to buy one that still comes with all the original packaging and instructions etc.

i never had one wth the other kids but because the babys room if further away from mine this time i do use one for nights.
i use my cordless phone tho... it is a uniden and is great. picks up sound really well.

thanks ladies!

I hadn't thought about our cats, so doors will have to be shut. I am looking on trade me and you are right plenty of the angel care ones out there in original packaging for less.

I will see if I can get a bargain I think.

I saw the $350 in baby city yesterday and wondered what else it did, for that price I would expect it to change or feed the baby as well.

We have a Phillips.
It's great. It has lights on it, so I could have the volume off at night and just have the lights flashing when she's crying. Of course, it helps that I'm a light sleeper and the dog whines at our door if I don't wake up

We have the angel care. It was my last baby purchase before Oliver was born because I didn;t know that it was worth spending that much money. For me I wanted a monitor more for knowing the baby was safe and breathing ok rather than for sound and so we ended up getting one. It has been my BEST baby purchase. It doesn't make me paranoid - if anything I feel so much better knowing he has it especially when he is sick. I think they are well worth the money (even though I wasn't sure at the time) Ours has never accidentally gone off. I have not regretted it for a second.

The only false alarms we've had are when I get her up and forget to turn the monitor off. Of course it takes 15 or so seconds to go off by which stage I'm usually juuuust sitting down to feed I'm learning tho!