Each week we'll spotlight a new category of product. Feel free to comment on threads like these throughout your time at the board, not just when they're in their week in the spotlight, if you discover something new OR are new to the board. This week it's.... Baby Monitors!
FTMs are encouraged to ask questions & STM/+s encouraged to share their knowledge based on experience. You can use any or all the prompts relevant to you below to share info in an easy-to-read format. Pictures/screen grabs, if put in spoilers, are welcome!
For FTMs...
Re: Product Spotlight- Baby Monitors
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Me 34 DH 34
PCOS
Baby number 2 due 4/11/20
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Me 34 DH 34
PCOS
Baby number 2 due 4/11/20
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Me 34 DH 34
PCOS
Baby number 2 due 4/11/20
We have a portable video monitor for when we travel too. I think it's whatever was popular on Amazon's list. I like having it a lot
We can check it from our phones and we have an old phone set up with it so anyone babysitting can check in. It's nice bc we both travel for work every so often and we can pull it up to see she is sleeping or just get a little hi.
In terms of the sock- We've had a lot of hospital experience over here and they all say do NOT do it. It adds to anxiety, they are not perfect and unless your babies HR and O2 levels are within their range, it will go off all the time. Even for a short time period. I mean DD set the hospital alarms off all the time bc the monitor wasn't against her wrist or ankle enough. Same for the sock.
1 infant loss
8/17: Our daughter was born
8/18: Our daughter kicked open heart surgery ass
2/19: We lost our son to Prader-Willi/Paradoxical Vocal Cord/ Noonans at 6wks old
4/26/2020: EDD for baby #3!!!
We had a Summer Infant monitor with DD and we still use it 3 years later. My grandmother is getting us a dual camera monitor for Christmas. I gave her my “requirements” and let her pick one based on reviews. She went with this one: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NW9PWHZ/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_tai_Qw4ODb
We will be getting an Owlet (just the sock, not the camera). We’ve done our research and feel like it’s the right decision. I’m not too worried about false alarms having talked with friends who have it and knowing how DH and I react to things. I think overall
peace of mind will make it worth it for us.
What monitor do you have? Just bought a new one because our old one crapped out. Went with the Infant Optix DXR-8 and so far I like it.
Do you have an audio or video monitor? Video. Again, I need to see them for anxiety purposes. Also, when they yell/cry out, I can tell whether it’s in their sleep or if I need to go in. And now that DD is older and will play in his room, can keep an eye on him.
Any features you really like?
circuit. I read horror stories of creepers hacking into WiFi monitors
can add up to four cameras. Can view one camera
at a time or scroll
two way talk
temperature display (two of our rooms get very cold in the winter and hot in summer)
Natural BFP Feb 2017. DD born Oct. 2017
Natural BFP Aug. 2019, EDD April 2020