I have never used baby monitors with my wee boy, and this has shocked some of my friends.

Am I the only one who doesn't bother with montiors??

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We have an Angelcare movement monitor - it's just so reassuring. If we didn't have it i'd have been checking on him constantly to make sure he was still breathing when he was newborn. I am a bit more relaxed now though! Since we moved him to his own room we also got a video monitor. This means when i hear him in the night i can see whether he's actually awake or just having a whinge in his sleep! very handy when he's on a different floor!

Hi my little boy is one in the next coupple of weeks and we only got monters last two weeks ago just because he was always with me and still slept in our room but now we have some video monters

I think its down to the individual.

If you are relaxed enough not to have one then good on you as I wish I was relaxed enough!!! I call mine a paranoid parent monitor!

SB x

G/C from toddler, we use a sound monitor just when we put dd to bed to make sure she settles and in the morning to hear when she wakes up. We stopped having it overnight when she was about 6 months old as she grumbles in her sleep and it just kept me up all night while she slept away! They are definitely handy for afternoon naps as when you are doing housework or out in the garden you cant tell when they wake up.

we had a cheap one that would burn a set of batteries in less than a week! we live in such a small house i can hear him at the same time as i hear the monitor.so after the initial teeny weeny phase we didnt bother replacing it. i wouldnt have been without it when he was brand new (he was in with us and took daytime naps downstairs, but was useful for the time between him going down upstairs and us going to bed). now he's bigger and can really yell it's more trouble than its worth. i think if i was in a big house id want one though x

We use one just when we put her to bed until we go up because sometimes I will be cooking etc downstairs and worry I won't hear her cry... however we sometimes forget to switch it on and I haven't felt that I've ignored her.

If I go to the loo or upstairs for anything else I always poke my head in to check her so don't really know why I use the monitor - probably just because we were given them second hand (I wasn't planning to buy any).

Next week she will move into her own room, and I think I won't bother using them during the night as I feel I probably will react too soon to her stirring when she may just go back to sleep if I leave her.

If you are comfortable, I wouldn't worry about it!

It is totally personal choice but we use the movement monitor and will do until she is 12 months old. My auntie lost a baby to SIDS but a monitor saved the life of the little boy she had a few years afterwards. She was alerted to the fact that he had stopped breathing and was able to do CPR and call an ambulance and saved his life. xx