Baby Monitors

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My first kiddo came a week early (July 28th) and one thing we haven't purchased but need to sooner or later is a baby monitor. Not looking for WIFi capable but what brands don't suck? I don't trust online reviews.
 
We have a vtech. It works fine. My wife says its horrible.
she says avoid wifi and motion sensing ones, the motion sensing ones that have sensors on the matress will false alarm that the kid isn't breathing, and give your wife a complex.
 
Squamch said:
We have a vtech. It works fine. My wife says its horrible.
she says avoid wifi and motion sensing ones, the motion sensing ones that have sensors on the matress will false alarm that the kid isn't breathing, and give your wife a complex.
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Holy fuck. I don't know how many times I had to check on my babies and touch them to make sure they were breathing. I'm not the overly concerned type, but it's not the place that I want to fuck up.

Cool starry bra: Around the time we were finished with the monitor (second baby a few years old) we suddenly couldn't find the monitor. It just dissapeared.

Found it years later at the bottom of the air duct that starts in our basement and ends in a grate on the second floor outside the kids rooms. That duct should have concerned me more because I'm pretty sure a kid could fall down it. I never secured it because I didn't think they would figure out the grate pulls off.:homer:
 
We have a Motorola MBP36XL. It has treated us well. Movable and zoomable camera. Decent range and picture. I was paranoid and didn't want a wifi monitor.
 
We have a Nanit.

Was fucking expensive. Wife really likes it and I'll admit it's pretty nice.

It is wifi, but that's a good thing IMO.

I can put the kid down for a nap and get the app going on my phone. It will notify me of movements, noises, and temperature changes. All of which have adjustable sensitivity or can be turned off. Since it is on my phone I can go about my projects in the garage or wherever and notifications will go to my watch. Sometimes I'll wack something with a hammer, then wait a second to see if it registers on the camera. No alert and I'm good to go.

It has built in white noise, which seems to help my son sleep.

The breathing monitoring is optical, so no sensors, and it actually works pretty well. But the kid has to wear a band or a swaddle with a specific pattern on it.

Initially I was pissed because of the price, but after having and using it I would buy it again (and will be for the 2nd kid)
 
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Muckin_Slusher said:
Holy fuck. I don't know how many times I had to check on my babies and touch them to make sure they were breathing. I'm not the overly concerned type, but it's not the place that I want to fuck up.

Cool starry bra: Around the time we were finished with the monitor (second baby a few years old) we suddenly couldn't find the monitor. It just dissapeared.

Found it years later at the bottom of the air duct that starts in our basement and ends in a grate on the second floor outside the kids rooms. That duct should have concerned me more because I'm pretty sure a kid could fall down it. I never secured it because I didn't think they would figure out the grate pulls off.:homer:
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The care nurse our second night in the hospital told us "don't call me again if he's not blue." He had fluid in his lungs and kept coughing and choking on it and we would hit the call button, because we didn't know wtf to do...it 100% fucked my wife up. He's almost 3 and she still has nightmares and has to get up and go check on him. I just panic about him drowning for some reason, but when he jumped into my folks pool with no life jacket, and bubbled all the way to rhe bottom, I was laughing when I jumped in to save him.
 
We got these Eufy ones. Picked them because of the quality of the picture, the range they get, dedicated monitor and NOT wifi compatible. Have a cameral in each of the girls rooms and the one monitor that cycles between them.
 
20 yrs ago when everyone still had a landline, we had one can't remember brand.
Knock on the door, the neighbor is standing there with his cordless phone in his hand not speaking waving me to come outside, he's all freaked out and whispery, "I think your house is bugged man", hands me the phone and says listen.
Sure as shit I can hear the kid in his room, handed his phone back and unplugged the unit.
 
Nest is the only good option.... great camera and repurpose as house security cam down the road. High quality cam, great night vision, I can watch from work just to see. We run one downstairs as well if we have a babysitter (with their knowledge of course)
 
Damn helicopter parents :flipoff2:


We never had one, both kids survived.
 
We run an AngelCare with a sensor pad for movement.

It legit saved our daughter's life one night. Kayleigh had caught a cold at 4 months and couldn't breath through her nose for how plugged up she got overnight. Alarm went off that she wasn't moving and when I got to her crib in the other room 5 seconds later she was trying to inhale but couldn't. The alarm in her room woke her up and got her moving again. She was trying to cry but couldn't even inhale for that. We had the snot sucker right beside her crib and was able to clear her nasal passage and get her breathing / screaming again. She'd have died that night if the alarm didn't go off.

It false alarmed a couple other times out of the 6 months we ran the sensor pad. Got us up and over to her room within seconds, but the baby seemed fine - just upset to have been woken up to a blaring alarm in her room. I suspect she was just in a super deep sleep and was breathing really shallow. Or maybe she had stopped breathing and the alarm jarred her back and saved her from SIDS.

Either way, I was very thankful we had it. Laura's eldest sister died of SIDS at 4 months old, so it was on her mind despite Kayleigh being at low risk for it and the reason why we bought a unit with motion detection.

We had the display unit fail at one point. The manufacturer sent us a new unit with a new battery no questions asked overnight.
 
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I've got a Hello Baby running right now, we got the $70 one, looks like they've got a slightly more expensive one now with more features
 
Fredycruger said:
we got same monitor, it reaches to my shop 60 ft Away
i like it few of my friends have same one
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Same here, two cameras paired up now and works well for what it is. First camera IR lamps are getting dim after 4 years or perhaps the newer one has a better set as there is definitely a difference between the new and old camera unit when the lights are off.
 
Do you people live in 2 story houses or huge homes where your living room is that far away from the bedroom?
I'm trying to understand what the need for a monitor is.

When the baby wakes up, it cries and you hear it and go check.
We raised two kids and never had one and looking back I don't see why we would need one.

Help me understand this? Is this really needed or is it the kind of thing where you just want to look at your sleeping baby in the other but just don't feel like getting off the couch and walking over there to do it or what?

I fully understand that there's a lot I don't know and surely am missing something, so don't get me wrong that I'm talking shit here.
 
Squamch said:
We have a vtech. It works fine. My wife says its horrible.
she says avoid wifi and motion sensing ones, the motion sensing ones that have sensors on the matress will false alarm that the kid isn't breathing, and give your wife a complex.
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We had a VTech... It was great, until it wasn't.

If you get one, keep the base out of reach of children. I *will* fall on the charging port and crack the solder, eventually getting so bad that you can't reliably charge it or run it off the wall power adapter.

It had GREAT range, too. When house-hunting, we brought it with... locked the kid up in the bedroom of the hotel suite for bedtime and brought the monitor down to the hotel bar/restaurant where we could see/hear that nothing was wrong in the room whilst mowing down on hot wings and downing beers/bourbons. The suite was at the back of the hotel, and the bar at the front. It wouldn't reach all the way to the bar itself, but the tables near the doorway to the lobby worked fine. The waitress was impressed by the range when she found out where our room was.

As for the sensor thing, we also had something similar... Owlet. Talk about piece of mind! That thing was on the wifi and monitored respiration, heart rate and O2 sat via a sensor on the foot. It would occasionally go a bit haywire if the kid was kicking, but reset itself once calm again. We sent it to her little sister when ours outgrew it.
 
1990GT50 said:
Nest is the only good option.... great camera and repurpose as house security cam down the road. High quality cam, great night vision, I can watch from work just to see. We run one downstairs as well if we have a babysitter (with their knowledge of course)
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We have the nest as well. We also use an Owlet Sock deal. I like the nest so far, and move it when we go away for the weekend or whatever, so it serves double duty as a security camera.

The owlet is expensive, and kind of a pain to have to take off/ put on (and remember to charge) everyday. But overall its worth it for the piece of mind, especially that first week or two home. My wife was on the app constantly checking the kid's stats. This combination made it a lot easier to transition sleeping arrangements.
 
Yota Up said:
Do you people live in 2 story houses or huge homes where your living room is that far away from the bedroom?
I'm trying to understand what the need for a monitor is.

When the baby wakes up, it cries and you hear it and go check.
We raised two kids and never had one and looking back I don't see why we would need one.

Help me understand this? Is this really needed or is it the kind of thing where you just want to look at your sleeping baby in the other but just don't feel like getting off the couch and walking over there to do it or what?

I fully understand that there's a lot I don't know and surely am missing something, so don't get me wrong that I'm talking shit here.
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Convenience. The wife would have them both down for nap and set the monitor on the back porch and mow. Make a lap, check screen. Or wash/vacuum the car. Also, with master bedroom on one side of the house and kids rooms on the other, you couldn't hear them unless they were screaming bloody murder.
 
We just used generic monitors. No screens or anything. Kiddo wouldn't cry when he woke up. He'd stand on his crib and bounce up and down. The monitor would pick up the squeaking of the bed and we'd know he was awake. Otherwise he'd just bounce there for an hour.
 
45acp said:
Convenience. The wife would have them both down for nap and set the monitor on the back porch and mow. Make a lap, check screen. Or wash/vacuum the car. Also, with master bedroom on one side of the house and kids rooms on the other, you couldn't hear them unless they were screaming bloody murder.
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Same here. I will take the monitor into our garage or on the back porch.
 
Yota Up said:
Do you people live in 2 story houses or huge homes where your living room is that far away from the bedroom?
I'm trying to understand what the need for a monitor is.

When the baby wakes up, it cries and you hear it and go check.
We raised two kids and never had one and looking back I don't see why we would need one.

Help me understand this? Is this really needed or is it the kind of thing where you just want to look at your sleeping baby in the other but just don't feel like getting off the couch and walking over there to do it or what?

I fully understand that there's a lot I don't know and surely am missing something, so don't get me wrong that I'm talking shit here.
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I would use it so I could be outside doing stuff while he napped. If I was inside I would usually forget to turn it on.
 
Aggie06 said:
Same here. I will take the monitor into our garage or on the back porch.
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Same. To hell with being trapped on the couch while kids nap.

I'm sure alot of people have them to be helicopters, but many of us used them to get shit done. I basically gutted a shop and walled up the interior, insulated and painted over a few months while toddlers napped.
 
some unsolicited advice. get the kid in their own room as quick as possible and DO NOT WAKE THEM UP IF THEY ARE SLEEPING AT NIGHT FOR ANY REASON.

everyone i know who has a monitor with a camera is a nut case, who is constantly watching the kid on it.
 
mobil1syn said:
some unsolicited advice. get the kid in their own room as quick as possible and DO NOT WAKE THEM UP IF THEY ARE SLEEPING AT NIGHT FOR ANY REASON.

everyone i know who has a monitor with a camera is a nut case, who is constantly watching the kid on it.
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My kids went the their own room the 1st month, they both slept/sleep like turning off a light switch, monitor was looked at only to see if they were awake yet.

Your boomer is showing. :flipoff2:
 
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