A few thoughts on baby mon\u00adit\u00adors; how you par\u00adent will affect how (or wheth\u00ader) you need a baby mon\u00adit\u00ador. I\u2019ve got a couple of \u201chow to buy\u201d tips if you do want one which I wish someone had told me!<\/p>\n
First, do you need one? If you think you\u2019ll be spend\u00ading quite a lot of time where you can\u00ad\u2019t hear the baby without help (e.g., out in the garden, in the base\u00adment, in the work\u00adshop or gar\u00adage), you\u2019ll prob\u00adably want one. Depend\u00ading on how you handle the first couple of months, you may not need a baby mon\u00adit\u00ador dur\u00ading that time. Little babies sleep a lot and are light enough to carry around that much of the time you can just keep the baby near you any\u00adway. I was\u00adn\u2019t up to spend\u00ading much time in the work\u00adshop or garden\u00ading in the first couple of months, so there was\u00adn\u2019t a prob\u00adlem there. We also had the baby sleep in our room at night so we could wake up quickly when she did, feed her quickly, and get every\u00adone back to sleep quickly. By the time she moved into her own room, she could yell or cry loudly enough to wake us up in the night (and don\u2019t worry, even if you\u2019re a good sleep\u00ader, once you\u2019re over the first sleep depriva\u00adtion phase, you\u2019ll wake up when the baby cries even without a baby mon\u00adit\u00ador as long as her room isn\u2019t too far way from yours).<\/p>\n
After the first couple of months, when the baby\u2019s a bit big\u00adger and get\u00adting onto a routine of reg\u00adu\u00adlar naps (at least in the\u00adory, ours does\u00adn\u2019t nap much) it\u2019s handy to have a baby mon\u00adit\u00ador so you can start doing more things a little fur\u00adther away and be aware of when the baby wakes up. Ours usu\u00adally wakes up cheery and not mak\u00ading many sounds at all, so I would\u00adn\u2019t hear them if I did\u00adn\u2019t have a mon\u00adit\u00ador. For this to work, of course, you need a mon\u00adit\u00ador you can rely on, one that does\u00adn\u2019t have so much stat\u00adic that you can\u00ad\u2019t hear the baby over it.<\/p>\n
So how do you choose a baby mon\u00adit\u00ador? The most import\u00adant thing in my exper\u00adi\u00adence is to get one from a store that will let you return it if it does\u00adn\u2019t work prop\u00aderly in your house\/apartment\/condo. We failed to do this with the first baby mon\u00adit\u00ador and when it did\u00adn\u2019t work, had no recourse. With the second I made sure I could return it for a full refund if need be. <\/p>\n
There are lots of types of baby mon\u00adit\u00adors, mostly clas\u00adsi\u00adfied by how they work. Those that use a 49 MHz trans\u00admis\u00adsion fre\u00adquency have been around for years (we had one with our first child), are cheap, and usu\u00adally work. They tend to have quite a lot of stat\u00adic, inter\u00adfere with one anoth\u00ader (import\u00adant if you\u2019re liv\u00ading close to oth\u00ader fam\u00adil\u00adies that also have baby mon\u00adit\u00adors), and can inad\u00advert\u00adently eaves\u00addrop (one of our neigh\u00adbours picked up a con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion I had on a cord\u00adless phone on hers; I promptly bought a new 2.4 GHZ<\/span> phone). Those that run on 2.4 GHz are in the\u00adory bet\u00adter but have prob\u00adlems of their own. We bought a Sum\u00admer Infant 2.4 GHz mon\u00adit\u00ador, which sup\u00adposedly changes chan\u00adnels to be secure. In our house at least, it was so secure you could\u00adn\u2019t actu\u00adally get it to work if you had the par\u00adent end more than a few meters away from the baby\u2019s end. It would\u00adn\u2019t work from the liv\u00ading room to the baby\u2019s room, let alone from the base\u00adment or out\u00adside. (This was the one we bought first and could\u00adn\u2019t return). I\u2019ve read lots of reviews of this mon\u00adit\u00ador and oth\u00ader people seem to have got it to work, so I assume it\u2019s some\u00adthing about our house, either the fact that we\u2019re sur\u00adroun\u00added by wire\u00adless net\u00adworks (which in the\u00adory might be inter\u00adfer\u00ading), or the fact we have some stain\u00adless appli\u00adances in the kit\u00adchen (a the\u00adory pro\u00adposed by someone at the store where I bought the second monitor). <\/p>\n The baby mon\u00adit\u00ador we finally bought and are extremely happy with is the Graco iMon\u00adit\u00ador. It uses some\u00adthing called \u201cDigit\u00adal Spread Spec\u00adtrum (DSS<\/span>)\u201d tech\u00adno\u00adlogy to trans\u00admit the sig\u00adnals, has very little stat\u00adic, and works through\u00adout our house and in the garden. It\u2019s more expens\u00adive than a lot of oth\u00ader baby mon\u00adit\u00adors but saves an immense amount of frus\u00adtra\u00adtion, so if you think you need one, I\u2019d recom\u00admend look\u00ading at this. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A few thoughts on baby mon\u00adit\u00adors; how you par\u00adent will affect how (or wheth\u00ader) you need a baby mon\u00adit\u00ador. I\u2019ve got a couple of \u201chow to buy\u201d tips if you do want one which I wish someone had told me! First, do you need one? If you think you\u2019ll be spend\u00ading quite a lot of time \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cBaby Monitors\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}