Do you hear phantom baby noises on the monitor?

christyp80 · June 2011

I swear, at least 5 times a night I think I hear Auds waking up on the monitor, only to turn on the video and see that she's completely sacked out.

Am I going crazy?

TiffanyTheMom · June 2011

Creee-peeeey....

For real though, it could be a baby wheeze- loud, might sound like a cry, and baby sleeps right through it. (I'm in the living room and I just heard one on my monitor.) Or, maybe you've heard cries so much that it rings in your brain even when your baby isn't crying. One night I let LO cry for a bit because I was so tired an angry if I went in there, something bad would have happened so it was smarter for me to let her just cry. Anyway, even an hour after she'd stopped crying I could still hear it in my head. Was your LO recently crying? Or is your house close enough to another's that if they have a baby monitor, the receptions might be on the same wavelength and you're hearing their baby cry? (This happened to me constantly in my high rise apartment in Japan- I couldn't even use the baby monitor because someone else's baby was always on both channels!)

Or, you have a ghost baby crying and you're hearing it in the monitor.

Aviee · June 2011

I think I do if the monitor is up too loud, but then again I can hear the neighbors like they're next to me in that thing, so it's probably DD just making teeny tiny sleep noises that sound like she's awake because of the volume lol

vflipo · June 2011

DD makes a lot of noises in her sleep. The Angelcare doesn't pick up most of them, but when she naps with me I always hear her whimpering or laughing. It's hilarious.

GracieMaeLovey · June 2011

Haha, I do it too! At least once a night...usually closer towards the morning hours when I think he ought to be getting up, but 9 times outta 10 he's zonked.

What really creeps me out is the humidifer. There have been times when I'm watching him on the monitor and suddenly the vapors from the humidifer "float" up onto the screen and for a split second I think 'ahhhhh ghost'- gets me every time!

noodle929 · June 2011

I here soooo many phantom noises. My monitor has a little light display that turns on more lights the louder the noise. I'll here noises but there will be no light. or i hear noises when the monitor in his room is turned off. i'll also hear the neighbor's cat's outside the baby's window through the monitor. sometimes i feel i need FBI surveillance training just to distinguish between all these sounds and what may actually be my son!

Wufroggy79 · June 2011

I think the sound is really sensitive on ours. I picks up every little creak and air noise, which tends to be a lot when your house is 80 years old.

courtneyt13 · June 2011

I don't have a monitor and I hear phantom baby cries. It's super weird and makes me crazy. I was thinking if I got a monitor it would go away.

christyp80 · June 2011

TiffanyTheMom:

Creee-peeeey....

For real though, it could be a baby wheeze- loud, might sound like a cry, and baby sleeps right through it. (I'm in the living room and I just heard one on my monitor.) Or, maybe you've heard cries so much that it rings in your brain even when your baby isn't crying. One night I let LO cry for a bit because I was so tired an angry if I went in there, something bad would have happened so it was smarter for me to let her just cry. Anyway, even an hour after she'd stopped crying I could still hear it in my head. Was your LO recently crying? Or is your house close enough to another's that if they have a baby monitor, the receptions might be on the same wavelength and you're hearing their baby cry? (This happened to me constantly in my high rise apartment in Japan- I couldn't even use the baby monitor because someone else's baby was always on both channels!)

Or, you have a ghost baby crying and you're hearing it in the monitor.

It could totally be that! Our next door neighbors have a baby, and a few times I've sworn I heard a lullaby playing over the monitor when there is no music on in Audrey's room. I'm pretty sure the monitor goes up to 900 feet, and their house would be in the distance of our living room.

Either that, or we have a ghost baby who listens to his ghost lullabies. My cat does meow at this certain spot on the wall a lot. Haha

christyp80 · June 2011

GracieMaeLovey:

Haha, I do it too! At least once a night...usually closer towards the morning hours when I think he ought to be getting up, but 9 times outta 10 he's zonked.

What really creeps me out is the humidifer. There have been times when I'm watching him on the monitor and suddenly the vapors from the humidifer "float" up onto the screen and for a split second I think 'ahhhhh ghost'- gets me every time!

Creepy!!!! That would freak me out!!

slcmomma · June 2011

We live in a apartment complex and I can hear other babies all of the time! When I was still pregnant I plugged in the monitors to see if they worked and I could hear a baby crying and someone open a door, walk in and talk to the baby! I was so creeped out!!!