Monitor at night?

myla14 · November 2014

Are people using their monitor at night anymore? I'm sure I could hear a true cry without it, but it feels like another one of those funny milestones to turn it off. So:

zazu13 · November 2014

I put SS. I can hear the babies from their room, but I still use the video monitor with the volume turned all the way off. I am easily woken up so I don't need the audio monitor amplifying their little night noises, but I do like the peek in on them and hate getting out of bed if I don't have to.

Teresa1896 · November 2014

We got one but never needed it with either kid, since they both slept in our room until they were sleeping all night. Then they moved into their own room, 10 feet from ours.

olenkapdx · November 2014

We have the audio part on lowest setting at night. SO and I are actually having a battle of wills about the monitor now. I want to keep using it, but he says it wakes him up, even when LO is not really waking, but just making noise. We are both really deep sleepers, otherwise, though, and I'm not sure we would hear her without it.

JessieAlbin · November 2014

SS We use ours, video only, sound all the way down because we can hear him just as good "live" across the hall.

BuggasMom · November 2014

Another SS here. video on and volume all the way down.

AmberLiz99 · November 2014

Still use the video one. She is down the hall so it an be hard to hear with both of our doors closed. She's also next door to her brother, so the monitor helps me hear her before she wakes him up.

MaglioMomma · November 2014

Yup Ss here too. Video on, volume off

UnofficiallyLO · November 2014

No monitor, house is small, I can hear him.

myla14 · November 2014

I'm intrigued by video on, audio off...never really occurred to me!

Dixon813 · November 2014

I was JUST thinking about this. We've only used an audio monitor from the beginning but our rooms are beside each other, small house, wood floors, we can hear everything. I think I might sleep better if I just turn it off because I wouldn't wake with every noise.

Talltrees82 · November 2014

We have an audio monitor that we're still using on the highest volume like we always have at night. His room is down the hall a bit. When we're downstairs in the evening it's hard to hear him in his room and sometimes we're outside during naptime.

Edit: didn't answer the question properly the first time around

ambarnett1 · November 2014

Video off. Audio on.

Roufi · November 2014

Ss- our monitor sends us alerts to our phones for noises over a certain volume (if he cries or babbles) without actually having video or audio on, at which point we can view & hear on our phones if we choose to access the feed.

eireyes · November 2014

Audio only monitor from the get-go. He sleeps with his door shut, and although I can hear through the door if he's really crying hard, I can't always hear him when he's just starting to cry. Plus, I'm a sound sleeper (I apparently got up with him last week and have no recollection of it happening) and DH never wakes up, so I keep it on my nightstand just in case. We use it during naps as well since he's on the second floor, door shut and we'll be downstairs or outside.

ksulli · November 2014

Ours also lets us talk to through the baby piece, so we still have it on for our 3yo- she'll ask if she can get out of bed & we let her know if it's time yet. Or if she needs the potty, and because if she gets sick overnight her room is too far to hear anything less than panic.

Baby we don't talk to through the monitor, but I keep it on all night even though I can also hear her through the wall. The video is handy because we can tell if she's fussing and mostly asleep, or fussing and pushing up which means she needs something to get back out.

kmos816 · November 2014

Audio On very low....I check the video on my phone when I need to, like if she cries and I want to see if she is crying in her sleep or awake

vlagroupie · November 2014

Video monitor with no sound on. DD is down the hall and I can hear her without the audio on. It took me a while to get to that point, I used to watch the video monitor all the time when she was just getting used to the crib. I love the infant optics monitor it has a setting for the video and audio to turn on when LO makes any noise so it is in sleep mode most of the night unless she wakes up.

KM0715 · November 2014

Another Ss vote for video no audio.. She's across the hall so I can hear her but like to have the video to check on her if I wake up to go to the bathroom or if I hear her fussing and want to check what she's doing

loveyoga7 · November 2014

We use ours when we are downstairs watching a movie and LO has been put to bed upstairs in her crib. But when we are upstairs in bed we usually turn the sound off. She is just across the way.

csmily51 · November 2014

We use ours. She is just across the hall, but her door is shut and the furnace closet is next to our room, so we can't hear her when it's running. Our video monitor is on the lowest volume setting, and on VOX, so it only comes on when she makes a noise.