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mts
Dr. Robot KingRegistered User regular
Dr. Robot KingRegistered User regular
So come October we will have a new baby in our house. exciting yes. Our house is all one level (except the basement) and we don't think we really want a sound monitor since really at most we would be 2-3 rooms away for the nursery. At this point we are questioning how paranoid we are going to be and thinking that a video monitor might be worth it to check in the middle of the night that the baby is, well, still breathing without getting up and going to the nursery.
looking at different places, most baby video monitors seem expensive as hell and don't seem all that great.
Was thinking how diffiuclt it would be to set up some sort of monitoring system using webcams or something like that. Either a dedicated viewer or smartphone app/website would be fine since we both have android phones.
i know some fancy systems you can access through a website which might be nice for when i go back to work and my wife is still home.
Or am I better off just springing for the baby monitor
looking at different places, most baby video monitors seem expensive as hell and don't seem all that great.
Was thinking how diffiuclt it would be to set up some sort of monitoring system using webcams or something like that. Either a dedicated viewer or smartphone app/website would be fine since we both have android phones.
i know some fancy systems you can access through a website which might be nice for when i go back to work and my wife is still home.
Or am I better off just springing for the baby monitor
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As far as sound monitors, even if you're one room away, they're still worth having. The point of them isn't to hear if the baby is crying, you'll hear that across the house anyway. We use ours mainly to hear when he's waking up, and to listen for any bad sounds, like choking.
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Probably not, most of the time. The monitors pick up a lot, but at least our son didn't make much noise at all while sleeping. You'd have to stare at him for a couple of minutes while your eyes adjusted to the dark to see any movement at all.
And that constant need to check on them will fairly quickly go away. After a few weeks of them being okay, you'll start to relax a little.
Ultimately, the reason we didn't get a video monitor was for the same reason other people have said. You'd need really high resolution to see a newborn breathing, which means you'd need to spring for a high-end version. And realistically, are you going to want to wake up in the middle of the night, turn on the monitor, and stare for half a minute to see her breathing (in the dark)?
And like Sir Carcass said, the constant need to check goes away pretty quickly.
Yeah, it's a tough call. Personally, I'd recommend at least waiting until after she (or he) is born before buying anything. We had all sorts of ideas about what we'd do once she was born, and that pretty much went out the window after the first few days.
As an example, I was pretty worried about our cats jumping into the crib and suffocating her (or whatever). So I bought a fairly expensive net thingy that fits on top of the crib. And I'm not sure we've even zipped it up once. We ended up just not letting the cats into the room at night, and that has been fine.