we don't have one at all. DD sleeps in our room at the moment and our house is fairly small. our cordless phones have a room monitoring function, so f i have to go outside while she is asleep (if i have a load of washing to hang out or cleaning up the yard etc) i put the phone in our bedroom on monitor, take the second one outside and we have the third handset that will ring if someone calls. works really well, so i dont think we would need a baby monitor anyway when she does move into her own room.
I don't have one. We have a small house and I can always hear DD. The only reason why I would want one is for doing the gardening while she is asleep. Although now that she is older she is perfectly happy to jump around in her cot while she is waiting for me.
I don't think it is an essential thing to have before the baby arrives. I would wait and see how things go and you can always get one later.
I have a small flat and I use ours all the time, DD was in her own room from Day 1 and without it with both doors shut, I wouldn't hear until she had worked herself up into a frenzy as she isn't much of a crier. Also at night after putting her down she often needs to burp again and with the monitor I can hear her go in and lift her up, she burps and goes straight back to sleep, if I waited till I could hear her without the monitor she would have woken herself up and be more difficult to put down again.
I think it really depends what you want it for and what you plan on doing whilst bubs is asleep. We used ours all of the time & will do so again with this next bubs. We would shut DS door & then the hall door so we could watch telly, chat, entertain etc so we would not hear him until he was into a scream. So was great for that. Also at night as being so tired often & deep sleeping & with all the doors shut it gave me warning as to when he was waking up.
We also spend lots of time outside & DS was a bad sleeper in the first 6months or so in the arvo, he would often wake after bout 30mins....but if you heard him & got in with the dummy or some more music first he would go back to sleep. So it saved us having him wake up fully after little sleep. Also didn't have to keep going in & out to check he wasn't crying.
My sister was adamant they would not need one & now have gotten one.....she too would need to get in sometimes to settle her DD after a bit during the arvo & was often in the garden & wouldn't hear her.
We didn't use a baby monitor with my DS - DH did buy us one, but it was so crap it broke after a couple of uses anyway . But as our house is small and thinned walls I always heard every cry. But this time I am thinking of buying one though (obviously a better quality one) - as I plan to spend more time outside with my now toddler whilst the baby is sleeping inside. As people have said, I guess it'll just depend on where you plan to be whilst baby is sleeping.
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. But as our house is small and thinned walls I always heard every cry. But this time I am thinking of buying one though (obviously a better quality one) - as I plan to spend more time outside with my now toddler whilst the baby is sleeping inside. As people have said, I guess it'll just depend on where you plan to be whilst baby is sleeping.
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