Digital or Analogue - Best Baby Monitors

madwoman85

Hi,

I am shopping around for a decent baby monitor but am not sure whether to just go for analogue or pay slightly more for a digital one... What are your recommendations? I don't have a particular budget but obviously don't want to spend a fortune!

Any advice would be great!

Thanks
Mad
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ALIBOBSY

To be honest we had 3 kids and never used a monitor for any of them. I always found when a baby cries you hear them without any issues. Unless you have a huge house or will be a long way from the baby when they sleep they are a bit pointless.

So I would save the cash and spend it elsewhere. I know it is worrying with your first, but an awful lot of the items presented by the shops and the media as essential items, just aren't.

If you are on a tight budget I honestly wouldn't get one. However if you have cash to burn, or someone is buying it for you or if you feel you won't be able to manage without (I can understand when its your first and the fact that some people worry more than others) buy the best you can afford.

Mind you maybe my kids are loud lol. Plus I never left the house when they were asleep (have seen people go to parties etc near to home with a monitor) and as I breastfed, the cot was in with us at night for quite a long time.

ali x

LucyB-Bride_to_Be

We just bought the cheapest plug in ones, they were pretty useless could hear someone else's baby crying on them it confused us for ages as to why jake wasn't crying but we could hear it! Anyhow we only used them for about 2 days after he went in his own room and decided we could hear him well enough. All in all a total waste of money. At the end of the day its your choice if you use them, i just wouldn't pay loads of money for something you might only use once or twice x

daveyjp

They are also excellent at transmitting all your household noises to anyone who may be using a handheld scanner!

We never bothered with one either.

xmaslolly76

I never had one with the other two but have invested in one this time as i have a 3 story house and if bubs is alseep on the top floor i probably wont hear him if i am in the laundry on the bottom floor. If you have a 2 storey though i agree with the other posters you dont really need one :-)

Nicki

xmaslolly76 wrote: »

I never had one with the other two but have invested in one this time as i have a 3 story house and if bubs is alseep on the top floor i probably wont hear him if i am in the laundry on the bottom floor.

...that could be to your advantage of course. In those circumstances I might find myself doing a lot of laundry in the first few weeks. In fact reason enough to invest in washable nappies, thus saving the cost of disposables, the monitor and your sanity all in one fell swoop

I agree with others. When we had nos 1 and 2 we lived in a 3 storey house and could hear both kids wherever we were in the house. I have bought a monitor this time round (digital) as we have moved to a 5 storey house and that might be pushing it, but they (newborns) are designed to be pretty loud!

MrsTinks

I have the BT150 - which has the Which? award as well as one of the big baby magazine ones It's on Amazon - think it's on offer at the moment or was...
We live in a small house but is she's upstairs the doors have to be shut or the cats might try and sneak in - and oddly for a new build our house is virtually soundproof! You can't hear her unless it's right at the top of her lungs! So for me at least it was a must and it's got cool functions like a little torch, you can play songs remotely (it works!) and loads of other functions
I'd pay the extra myself...

Js_Other_Half

We have the BT one too - it's still going strong after 2.5 years.

xmaslolly76

[QUOTE=Nicki;23766561
I agree with others. When we had nos 1 and 2 we lived in a 3 storey house and could hear both kids wherever we were in the house. I have bought a monitor this time round (digital) as we have moved to a 5 storey house and that might be pushing it, but they (newborns) are designed to be pretty loud![/QUOTE]

:eek:5 storeys omg how do cope with all those stairs. Mind you will help the baby weight drop off

puddles

We have the BT150 monitor too - fantastic. When we are in the kitchen with the washing machine on it's pretty hard to hear the little man in his bedroom so the monitor is a must.

Nicki

xmaslolly76 wrote: »

:eek:5 storeys omg how do cope with all those stairs. Mind you will help the baby weight drop off

At the moment (31 weeks pregnant) I can't! The kids bedrooms are on the top storey, and whatever happens up there, stays up there as far as I'm concerned. OH goes up every few days to bring down dirty clothes or crockery, but unless they were actually dying, I don't venture up that far.

When we first moved into the house I couldn't understand why I was asleep on the sofa by 9 o'clock every night without fail for the first few months, but I did get used to it!