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=Lee=B=Lee=B member
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So, I always sort of laughed at people that bought these.  But, I am set to open a home daycare in January and will slowly be transitioning up to having 5 young children in my home.  I needed a monitor system that can monitor 5 nap rooms on one parent device which left me with only video monitors.  So, on Black Friday I bought one.  It arrived today so I set it up in all the nap rooms, including my daughters room and I have spent the day watching her nap.

How fascinating.  1.5hrs into her morning nap she woke, did like 18 stretches looked around, leaned up to check the door was closed, found her soother and passed back out for 45min. 

I just put her down and all these months I have laughed at how she can just pass out so quickly when I put her in her crib (most of the time other times she makes it clear it is a nap in bed with mom day).  So today she went in, did her usual "ehhh, ehhh" as I left then stopped as I closed the door.  I always thought this was her passing out.  But, I just watched her for over 5min play silently.  She leaned over grabbed the crib bars, pulled herself onto her side and lied there rubbing the bars until she fell asleep.

Every time I put her in the crib she reaches over and touches the bars...it's become so routine that I always put her off center so she can reach the bars.  At night when she bedshares with me she always reaches for the wall and rubs it.  Seems this is her soothing mechanism!  How funny.

Anyways it's been neat to use and see how she sleeps.  I've learned a lot, mainly that she has some pretty good self-soothing skills.  All this time I just assumed she passed out and let me know when she wakes but seems she puts herself to sleep and when she wakes in the middle of sleep she can easily put herself back to sleep! 

If only I could make this thing record a full night of sleep to see what she does all night next to me in bed!!

 

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  • Emerald27Emerald27 member
    I want one! We used to live in a small apartment and didn't need one, but in September we moved into a 3-story, well-insulated townhouse. You can't hear anything on the floor above or below you...so I have to be on the 2nd floor during naps. There's only so much you can do on the second floor for 2 hours a day. Laundry? Check. Bathroom clean? Check. Bump on iPhone....double check! Lol
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  • nanabanana06nanabanana06
    I used to not like video monitors. However, when we moved Cade into his own room SO wanted one so he can check up on him like he used to when he bedshared. So, we got one! I freaking love it! I love being able to see what he's doing and check to make sure he's breathing. Much better than covert missions into the babies room before bedtime like we did with Rosie.
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  • honeydew01honeydew01 member
    My SIL has commented that she thinks our video monitor is silly, overkill and she did just fine without one. She also thinks the reason I don't sleep good is because I peak at it throughout the night. I think that part may be true, because I do do that.

    I love ours! We got it when DD was 4.5. She had already been sleeping in her crib for a month or so by then and like you I always thought "oh she falls sleep so quickly." When we got the monitor and watched the things she does, we were amazed too. I think for the first few days, I'd put her down in her crib and run out to grab the monitor to see what she was going to do before she fell sleep.  

    She's 9 months and I still love it. She tosses and turns so much at night, I think she does multiple 360 turns each night so it's cool to see it. Also I like watching her work on her skills. She's now pulling up holding on the rails. The first time she flipped to her stomach I was watching it on the monitor...or when she was rolling and getting her one hand stuck underneath her and how she'd try to get it out from underneath herself...yea, I think for our family it's a must baby item:)
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  • =Lee=B=Lee=B member

    I always thought they were overkill.  We just used an audio monitor and if we heard her we went in...didn't see the need to see her while sleeping.

    BUT WOWEE is this thing neato!  She is napping now.  Awhile ago I happen to look at the monitor and she was silent but WIDE awake with her head completely turned up around looking at the video monitor. It was creepy.  But I watched and she quietly laid there watching the camera blinking away, every now and then she would try and sit up to see her door (checking if it's open I think) then look back at the monitor, the door.  After a few minutes she just went back to sleep and has been sleeping for another 45min now!

    It is incredible.  As those months where every sleep cycle she would wake and I would go in and move her to the bed and lie with her until she fell back asleep.  She doesn't do that very often anymore so I had just assumed she never woke...but clearly she still wakes after some sleep cycles she just silently lies there until she puts her self back to sleep.  I also assumed that when her nap was done she woke and fussed right away.  But now I see she stretches, rubs her eyes, looks around and waits a couple minutes before calling out for me.

    Man, super baby!  I am so proud of her! 

     

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