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WE've bought an Angelcare sound and movement baby monitor.
DH has set it up and its charged etc, ready to go.
Do I just turn it on when I put DS in teh cot, and turn it off when I take him out?
ANd have the parent monitor out of the room?
Or is there more to it?
Did you have any false alarms, and has anyone had to adjust the sensitivity of the pads from the default/standard?
Im worried Im going to put him down, turn it on and have it start alarming as he goes to sleep
Hi rayray,
That is pretty much it :) Test it before you put him in- turn it on and leave it for the 10 seconds to see if it beeps. Once it does, put your hand on the mattress firmly, but not pushing in. if it stops beeping, you're right to go :)
I did find I got a few false alarms once ds was rolling around to the edge of his cot, but i don't think you'll need to worry about that yet ;)
Thanks :)
ooh gosh I hope not yet! lol:
Yep, that's exactly how it works. We've had only 2 false alarms, both times in the middle of the night when I'm fast asleep and so scared the crap out of me! DS was oblivious to it all both times and gave me a funny look when I picked him up out of the cot :)
The only thing that bugs me about mine is on occasion the parents unit makes a brief "shh" sound like white noise for about a second. I have no idea why but doesn't seem to affect anything about the monitor.
Oh, wait till you get that first false alarm when they're not quite on the sensor pads... so bloody scary. I shook DS thinking he wasn't breathing... and he just opened his eyes and gave me a dirty look (as dirty as a 3 week old can give). :lol:
A fan in the room or some other vibration can also stop the alarm from going off - so I found out when I forgot to turn the alarm off after getting DD out of bed and it was still happily silent when I went back to the room half an hour later :doh: Good idea to check the alarm WILL activate if on an there is no movement.
Funny I should read this.. We just had our very first false alarm (and I didn't even realise till dh told me lol) I slept through it. Great aren't I.. I now have to move the pads further apart as she was right up one end of the cot which is why it went off..
The only thing I did with it was when we went away and I was putting the monitor into a new bed I would test it to make sure all was still working..
I only had to adjust the sensitivity when we had a fan on. Now I fixed the problem with the fan and its all good to go..
I had false alarms ALL the time once DD was moving - she always ended up in the very corner of the cot. We only had one sensor pad though, and the alarm never woke her.
I couldn't use the ceiling fan because it sensed that as breathing, so I set up an upright one when we needed one. It's nice to know they are so incredibly sensitive though.
You won't be forgetting to turn it off for long - it will train you well!
There should be a little cord that you attach after they start moving to stop false alarms (well ours had one)