My son is three and we still use it every night.
I have no plans of retiring it. I dont think ill get rid of it until he is old enough to masturbate, I dont wanna hear that.
I like having it because I can hear if he isn't sleeping, if he is playing, or idk lets get off my sanity for a second and say if a baby thief broke in through his window, id be able to hear him say, "MOMMY!". I like to be able to hear everything that goes on in his room.
Sometimes he wakes up and just says, "Mom, thirsty." or "Mom, Potty." in a very regular voice. We taught him not to leave his room at night...so im able to respond to him at night through the monitor.
I have heard mom's say they got rid of the monitor the moment their child became a toddler at 12 months. I really don't know when most mom's ditch the monitor and im curious about it.
So tell me your monitor stories & opinions please : )
i quit using the baby monitor when my son started waking up in the middle of the night to play. he used to wake up not crying and just started playing and would go back to sleep by himself. i didnt care too much to wake up in the middle of the night to listen to him play.
We've never used a baby monitor. I have like, super human mommy ears though. Anything my son does, I know where he is, if hes awake, asleep, crying, its when I can't hear him, either somethings wrong, or hes getting into something hes not supposed to. When it comes to other stuff, its like I'm deaf, like not listening to my husband, or whatever else, lol. But my son, I wake up the second hes awake. I've got that mommy instinct on crack...
ME TOO! Except im sort of a heavy sleeper (idk, it hasn't been tested) and our rooms are right next to eachother, but my husband and I tested in when he was a newborn, and you can't hear squat! We have soem kind of amazing insulation and you can scream in one room (with no monitor) and not hear it at all in the other room.
Quoting Anonymous:
My son is 4 I am a very heavy sleeper he is across the house (small house) And so I still use it. The hubs thinks I am crazy but I really don't care. If I could have a camera and a microphone in there to tell him to lay the hell back down I totally would.
I think thats AWESOME!
Quoting talktojonell:
Never. I still catch my kids doing stuff on them lol.
I have my original two from 1992. One in the basement and one in the family room.
Didn't you put a gate or something on the stairs???? We have a 1/2 door on ours, that our oldest dd can only open when she's going upstairs, but not to get down, because she's a sleep walker.
Quoting Matriarch87:
Quoting JaimieLynn8:
We got rid of ours a little after he turned 2 when our youngest was born. It was hard at first but I just make sure to check on him a few times before I go to sleep. If he needs anything in the middle of the night he can leave his room.See...*shame* we didn't really "TEACH" him not to leave his room per se, its a combination thing. His room is at the top of a verrrry high stair case, as is our room. When he got big enough, I told him he had to be very careful to not wander out of his room cause he could hurt himself on the stairs. Im kinda in a haze as an adult when im sleepy, I cant imagine a toddler being very "with it" in the middle of the night. But on top of that, I have always responded to him and ran into his room for every little thing, that I really don't think he realizes he can even get up out of bed in the middle of the night lol. When we took the bars off his crib and converted it to a toddler bed. I was soooo scared he would be running all over in the night and break his neck on those stairs...but he didn't, he absolutly refused to get out of bed without me....He will bawl for hours before getting out of bed himself. I don't really know what thats all about...but I dont mind it.
I stayed the ngiht with a friend one time. Her brother planted a walkie talkie under the mattress of the bed I was sleeping on and was saying things like, "I am here to have you souuuuuul! Give it to me! Giveittome!"
Freaked me right the frick out, lol.
Quoting Sanctimommy:Keep it around after you retire it. I once had a crazy friend (she was literally bipolar) spend the night. She was a Rastafarian and never, never, never would cut her hair (due to her religious beliefs). So my SO at the time and I hid the receiver of the baby monitor in the room she was sleeping in and held the transmitter and said things like, "Hadassahhhhhh....this is God. Shaaa....aaaa...aaaave your he....e....ead!". She came flying out of the room freaking out and we showed her the monitor. She laughed her ass off.
Good times, man. Good times.
That's the ugliest name everrrr!!!
- Matriarch87
on May. 25, 2012 at 4:40 PM