arguement over a baby monitor

Bridesmaid83

have not read the replies but can't you just tell them that you bought a monitor with a sensor pad just to shut them up? If not, just make them buy it for you and sell the one you already have.

I have a baby monitor with the sensor pad and to be quite honest with you..it does my bloody head in because my 8 month old moves about the bed all night to all corners and it's always beeping because it cannot detect her. I end up having to get up about 4 - 5 times a night just to turn the bloody alarm off. Sure it's super useful for very young babies but we didn't even use the sensor pad back then as she was in a moses basket right next to our bed. It wasn't until our DD was 6 months old and in her own bedroom that we started to use it.

Js_Other_Half

Here is one of the devices which sits against the nappy (mentioned earlier in the thread). It vibrates against the child after a certain amount of the child not breathing.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Respisense-Ditto-Movement-Monitor-Warranty/dp/B001BX76TI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1299702878&sr=8-1

pigpen

Js_Other_Half wrote: »

Here is one of the devices which sits against the nappy (mentioned earlier in the thread). It vibrates against the child after a certain amount of the child not breathing.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Respisense-Ditto-Movement-Monitor-Warranty/dp/B001BX76TI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1299702878&sr=8-1

I have one of those too... mainly for in the car seat.. yes I am this neurotic!

They vibrate really hard it is a very odd feeling... had to try it on myself before subjecting my baby to it. They do slide off the nappy if they are really wriggly too.

They were going for about £40-£60 on ebay last year.

ClareEmily

I have an angelcare alarm, and have never had false alarms, only gone off if I have taken my son out of the cot and forgotten to turn it off. You can alter the sensitivity, my son moves to the end of the cot and it has no problems detecting him.

I would rather in the worst case situation be alerted as soon as my baby stops breathing so something can be attempted, instead of finding him the following morning and always wondering what if.

It is a personal choice, it helps me worry less, he is my first child and he is indeed wrapped in cotton wool.

To the OP try to give them some slack, if you are happy with your monitor, tell a small white lie that you have the all singing dancing one, they need never know. They are grieving and you are pregnant and hormonal.

kjmtidea

I didn't use one for any of my 4 but like everyone has said, it is personal preference. My brother died of cot death when he was 13 months, a lot of people would have stopped using the monitor by then though.

Becles

hulagirl79 wrote: »

Now i know i can never understand how they feel but i feel to say that was extremely unfair.
Am i being wrong.

Thanks for any advice. X

Congrats on your pregnancy :j

There are two very important lessons you need to learn now.

1) grow a thick skin

2) learn the art of smiling sweetly and nodding at all the advice you'll be given, while letting the stuff you don't want to hear flow in one ear and straight out the other

Loads of people have comments on parenting and time and time again you'll be told you're doing it wrong.

If you choose to breastfeed someone will complain about you doing "disgusting" things in public.
If you bottlefeed someone will complain because you're not breastfeeding.
If you use disposable nappies, someone will tell you cloth is better.
If you use Pampers, someone will tell you how much they leaked on their baby and you should use Huggies.
If you wean with purees, someone will tell you baby led weaning is far superior.

Everyone's baby has done everything well before your baby ever will. Is she sleeping through? No? Mine was sleeping through by 10 days old. Is he walking yet? No? Mine could run round the block at 10 months old.

and so on.

It's personal preference what you do, and as long as your baby is loved, fed and well cared for, it's nobody elses business what you do.

Hope all goes well xx