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Baby Monitors?
I am a first time mother expecting twin girls in February...Having a difficult time registering for/finding a baby monitor. Does anyone have any suggestions? Two separate monitors? Will one monitor pick up both babies? The only one I see that you can buy additional for is a video monitor and it didn't get the greatest reviews!
Any susggestions are appreciated!!!
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We got a summer video monitor that included one camera and one receiver and the capability to toggle back and forth between the one camera and a second one. Then, of course, we also got the second camera.
Works fine. I'm annoyed at how quickly it runs out of power/needs to be recharged, but as time goes on I watch the screen less and it lasts longer. So maybe it is/was just me being neurotic.
I'll tell you that my husband, an obsessive researcher, was in charge of the monitors, and this is what he picked. I'm going to assume that means it was the best reviewed.
Angelcare monitors are the thing that saved our sanity - and still do. They sense movement (breathing) and will sound an alarm if it's not picked up for 15 seconds. You need 2 of them with twins - and they need to sleep apart, for the movement sensor to really work... but it's SO great to not have to worry and check if babies are breathing 100x's a night.
and on days when our kids sleep in- we never worry - we just let them sleep... it's also great when we switched to a toddler bed b/c it will alarm if DS1 gets out of bed - which he doesn't b/c he knows the alarm will go off
Honestly, if I had to do it over again, I'd probably get a video monitor of some type. When they were babies, it wasn't as big a deal because I could easily go in a check on them. However, as they have gotten older, you really can't go in their room if they aren't fully asleep without causing issues. :-) I would love to be able to see what they are doing (lying down, standing up, playing, etc).
We have one sound monitor (well, we have two...when they were little I set up a receiver in our main room so if they were sleeping in their bouncers I could take a shower, do laundry, etc) and that's always been fine for them. We have Sony Babycall monitors and while for the most part they work well, I do have some issues sometime with it beeping for out of range when clearly it's not.
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We have one video monitor that pans the room so that we will be able to see both babies without having two cameras. I think it is a Summer brand. We used an iGraco video monitor with DS1 and like previous post said it is much easier to be able to look at the monitor instead of having to go in and cause issues.
I have the Sony Babycall monitor and love it (just one - it picks up sound from both babies just fine).
It's just a regular ole sound monitor, and I think I'm one of the few parents on the planet who didn't want a video monitor (we would have needed two since there's no place in our nursery to put the camera that would take in both cribs) or a motion sensor monitor like Angelcare.
We have one, regular monitor and that has worked fine. Actually, I bought it at a rummage sale.
We live in a ranch style home and the babies are never very far away. I could see wanting a video monitor if the babies were going to be upstairs and I didn't want to be running up and down to check on them all of the time.
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We also use a video monitor. We initially used a regular audio only monitor (Sony Baby Call Monitor), which worked well...but since both our babies are very noisy sleepers, we decided to get a video monitor so we could see what was going on without actually going in their room everytime they fussed. We bought the Summer Infant Video monitor and it works great!
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I also have the summer infant best view. I like that the camera pans/zooms b/c 1 camera is enough for our nursery. I'll probably add more cameras when they get older and have a play room I'll want to spy on. I had the Slim & Secure for a while and the resolution on that handheld is better than the Best View IMO. But I still wanted the zoom camera. Since my DSes are newborns I just use the sound feature on it. The video feature is mostly for when they're a little older. Well, that and playing a game where DH & I try to guess which twin is making noise
I don't have an Angel Care, but I want one. DH won't let me buy 2 expensive monitors though, unfortunately.
This is the one we have and it is fantastic. They also have great customer service. Our toggle broke and I called them, they sent out a new monitor and we sent back the broken one in the same box with a pre-paid shipping label.