STM+ Monitor Question(s)

smg2302 · August 2014

1. When did you stop using a monitor with your older LOs? We still use ours for DD who is 15 months old. We're not sure if we need to get another for this LO.

2. Have you found any kind of double monitor? Would you recommend it?

Thanks.

Beth.1212 · August 2014

I still use a monitor with my 19 month old. I have a motorola video monitor that I'll be adding a 2nd camera to so that I can monitor both children.

mandamoochie · August 2014

Yaaaay! Thank you for asking this question.. I asked the same one a couple of days ago in another thread.. my DS is 13 months and we still use ours as well.

t8keepr03 · August 2014

Good question! My DD will be 18
Months when this little one is born and wondering if we should get a second monitor or use a double monitor? We currently have a Motorola video monitor and love it. We can get a second camera for it but you would only get sound from whatever camera the monitor is on at the time. So in the middle of the night if it's on camera 1 how would we know LO with camera 2 is crying?

smg2302 · August 2014

All great questions! Our monitor is audio only. I'm wondering if I should just get another one, then label the receivers so I know which baby is making which noise.

t8keepr03 · August 2014

@smg2302‌ I'm thinking the same thing of just getting a second monitor and camera set and just labeling the monitors so I know who is making noise.

michelle142 · August 2014

DS is 2 1/2. We haven't used a monitor with him for about 6ish months now.

We have a Motorola video monitor that we can add a camera to if we decide he needs one.

lilybug319 · August 2014

We use a video monitor for our daughter. She's 4 but the reason we still use it is because she has epilepsy so it's easier to catch the seizures in the middle of the night. I know our monitor can have up to 4 cameras attached to it so you can switch between kids and views or just have both in split screen.

WanderingA · August 2014

We only use our video monitor for A (12 months) when we watch TV in the basement after she goes to bed on the 2nd floor. We might start relying on it again once she moves to a toddler bed, but I can hear her from anywhere in the house so there isn't really and need for it.

maryxc1 · August 2014

We still use our Summer Infant video monitor with DS who turned two in May. We plan to buy a second camera for it. It doesn't do split screen but it has a scan mode where it goes between each camera for a few seconds.

bhjones1980 · August 2014

We are just going to get another camera for our Motorola video monitor, we still use it for DS

FlowerPower16 · August 2014

We are still using our Summer Infant video monitor for DS. He is 2 years and a couple months. He's been sleeping better and we can hear him from our room since he's just across the hall, so we'll probably just stop using it for him and move it to the baby's room once the baby starts sleeping in his/her own room.

CatLadyTX · August 2014

Baby monitors 4 lyfe! My son is 20m and I keep his monitor on. He has a sensor pad, but we only use it now when he is sick with something like croup. We use the video monitor but not all the time.

Oem617 · August 2014

DS is 25 months old and we still use the video monitor every night. I like to see what he is doing. He is not a great sleeper and up until about a month ago he would still wake up in the middle of the night. I have no plans of stopping. I think it has an option to buy a second camera. I should look into that.

mommy510 · August 2014

We only used our monitors until they were regularly STTN. Also, their rooms are relatively close to ours, so if they were crying loudly or screaming, we could definitely hear.

KMommytobe · August 2014

We bought a summer infant video monitor back in 2011. It has the ability to monitor up to 4 cameras. When our 2nd child was born in 2013 I just purchased a 2nd camera. What is does is cycle back and forth between the 2 camera every eight seconds I think it is.

I'm not sure how long people normally use monitors for but right now our bedroom is far enough away from the kids that we can't hear them at night so definitely need them.

mamabisme · August 2014

We stopped using a monitor with our first two once they were sleeping through the night consistently. Our house then was 1 story and the kids rooms were close enough that if they were to wake up we could hear them anyway. I've never had to purchase a second monitor.

At 4 and 2.5 they now sleep through the night 99% of the time. If they do wake it is just to go potty, which they do by themselves and then get back I bed. Man, it's going to be rough going through this newborn thing again! :-S

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