I have been hearing every little thing over our monitor overnight even at the lowest setting and the light of it is bothering me even on the lowest setting too. Even when LO is sleeping I seem to still be awake an awful lot. So I was just wondering what ya'll are doing with monitors and overnight.
Re: MOTN monitor
We have the BRU video monitor that we keep at the lowest setting. the video part can be turned on and off, which is nice. I do have to keep a fan running to help block out some of the white noise from the monitor. Over all I love mine.
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No need for a monitor at night.
DS1 is across the hall/other end of house (30 feet away separated by 2 closed doors). We stopped using the monitor in his room around 8 months or so.
I can hear him if he wakes up.
He doesn't usually wake up anymore, and he woke up at 4am when I got up for work when he was 9 months, so no monitor needed then.
Buuuuut, I kept it on lowest volume when we DID use it.
(No video)
I wish I could use the movement pad, and if I could I'd probably turn the volume down more, but LO likes to roll all around and particularly to snuggle herself far into the corners of her crib. This has led to false alarms in the MOTN which wake ALL of us up, which is not fun. I finally ended up turning the pad off, and only turning it on briefly to check on her for reassurance if I feel the urge.
ETA the right 'their'
She slept in a Moses basket on my side of the bed, literally 2 feet from me. I never heard a thing... X_X