Baby monitors
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Topic: Baby monitors
Posted By: Jaxnz1
Subject: Baby monitors
Date Posted: 03 August 2009 at 9:08pm
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Any suggestions on which brand baby monitor to get? Just want a sound, not video monitor. I'm looking at the Tomy Walkabout on trademe, but would like to know if it's ok. ------------- 
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Posted By: ElfsMum
Date Posted: 04 August 2009 at 1:42pm
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me too ------------- Mum to two amazing boys! |
Posted By: first
Date Posted: 04 August 2009 at 4:32pm
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I had a tomy walkabout and it was fine. Only used it if we were at friends places and he was asleep in another room. At home we could hear if he was crying and if we didn't hear him crying then he obviously didn't need us enough to put the effort in to wake us. Tough parents I guess. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: RoSee
Date Posted: 07 August 2009 at 1:25pm
I also have an Angelcare.. it's absolutely awesome I highly recommend them  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: flakesitchyfeet
Date Posted: 07 August 2009 at 4:53pm
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We have just a basic steelcraft one, it does the trick :) -------------  http://lilypie.com"> |
Posted By: RunningT
Date Posted: 10 August 2009 at 9:23am
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My 22 cents worth
Tommee Tippee Ultimate Reassurance Monitor Vs AngelCare Sound and movement Monitor AC401. We have been in the unique situation of having used both monitors so I feel that I am situated that I can explain and compare the features of both. These are only my opinions which you can take or leave. I’ll tell you why we had both monitors later. The TT was cheaper. I liked that there was a movement light on the TT parent unit that flashed every time movement was detected. The AC has a movement light on the nursery unit but when you are standing by the cot you can usually tell if your baby is moving or not. I guess you don’t really need to see a movement light flashing on the parent unit because if the baby is not moving the alarm will sound but watching the light flash on the TT did “soothe me” as a new mother. It was VERY easy to switch the TT nursery unit from movement to sound only when you picked up baby out of the cot. This can be good if you want to be able to call for backup in the middle of the night from DH sleeping in bed or bad if you don’t want to be heard talking in baby talk. They both display the temperature however the TT is on the nursery unit. The Angelcare has a reading on the parent unit so I can see from my bed whether the nursery is hot/cold/just right. The AC monitor allows you also to set an alarm if the temperature goes above or below levels you set. (I have never used this function but could be useful in winter) Both monitors suck in that if you turn off the nursery unit (movement and sound) the parent units sound an alarm if you haven’t turned the parent units off first. Annoying if you forget to turn the parent units off before you go to the nursery. Both monitors have a small warning beep if there is no movement for 15 seconds then the big alarm at 20 seconds. The small warning can jolt baby back into breathing. Both monitors have a night light on the nursery unit. We feed by the AC night light which is good for the final feed of the day. The AC has two sensor pads for under the mattress which I think will be good once baby start moving around in the cot. This is a BIGGIE… The AC monitor charges the parent unit when you put it on the charger. An overnight charge is enough for a whole day. I don’t even move the charger now and just take the parent unit with me from room to room during the day. The TT parent unit does not recharge and if you use rechargeable batteries you void the warranty. We went through a set of batteries with the TT monitor in two weeks which is a cost you need to factor in. The sound function on the AC monitor can be set to continuous transmission or voice activated ie if there is no sound in the nursery there is no sound coming through on the parent unit. You can also set the AC monitor so the “voice” has to be a certain level to activate… ie if you don’t want to hear all the little grunts you don’t have to and you can just hear the medium to loud crying. The AC monitor also has less feedback or interference than the TT monitor and you can also change the frequency if you want/need to. Both monitors can run on batteries so we could take either up to my parents and use them in the portacot up there. We never bothered to take the sensor pads. Alternatively if baby falls asleep in the car you can put the ‘nursery’ unit in the car to hear when they wake up. The TT monitor is certainly cheaper. Rrp around $270 but we got it on special for $198. The AC rrp $400 we paid $330 on a web site I had never heard of (I won’t name it so I don’t get into trouble but I ordered it at lunchtime and it arrived at 9am the next day) There are price comparison web sites so regardless of which model you want to buy you can find it cheapest. Now my confession: We had the TT first and had a number of false alarms with it (ie over 20 in 3 weeks). We had baby sleeping at one end of the cot and we changed the cot end he slept in so that our set up was EXACTLY the same as the manual. Then when the false alarms continued we changed the end back again but the alarms continued. We discovered a major installation error after three set up changes. I don’t know if the installation error was present in all the three set ups we had tried (I would be really surprised if both DH and I failed to notice this 3 times when changing it around. However more importantly the false alarms continued after we put it the right way up so it appears that the installation error was not the only problem with this unit. We returned it and got our money back no problems. I have not heard of other people having this trouble with the TT monitor (our issue may have just been a one off) but we have had NO false alarms with the AC monitor for 6 months… and counting. I love my AC monitor. ------------- 
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Posted By: boys.boys.boys.boys
Date Posted: 17 August 2009 at 7:33pm
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I have a Phillips monitor, it is absolutely awesome, very very clear sound, and has a huge range. Highly reccommended. ------------- 4 boys!! 7 years, 5 years, 2 years and 8 weeks... |
Posted By: monkey33
Date Posted: 19 August 2009 at 8:45pm
We have bought an Angelcare one  ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: skp
Date Posted: 29 August 2009 at 10:22pm
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Angel care movement one! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: WestiesGirl
Date Posted: 29 August 2009 at 11:31pm
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Yep Ditto the Angelcare movement monitor! Wouldnt be without it!! ------------- Our Angel July 08 Gone but not forgotten
And to complete our family, our princess has arrived 
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Posted By: Kirstine
Date Posted: 30 August 2009 at 4:47pm
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is it better to get the angel care one with the two sensor pads? or is one fine? and if you get the two pad one can you choose to only hook up one?
also can you use them as sound only and not have any sensor pads operating? so many questions! ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: WestiesGirl
Date Posted: 30 August 2009 at 5:43pm
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I only have the one sensor pad and find it enough, but I dunno what its like to have both IYKWIM. And yep you can just choose to have sound only ------------- Our Angel July 08 Gone but not forgotten
And to complete our family, our princess has arrived
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Posted By: Lizze
Date Posted: 01 September 2009 at 3:36pm
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i've just bought the Phillips Avent 520, sound only. We didn't want a movement one and the Phillips had the best reviews on Consumer. ------------- 
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Posted By: Katherine
Date Posted: 10 September 2009 at 11:49am
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We did a round-up of baby monitors in Issue 3 of OHbaby! Magazine. Are you a subscriber? If so, you can check them out http://www.ohbaby.co.nz/article.aspx?ContentID=2575 - here . If not, you can buy the back issue http://www.ohbaby.co.nz/Store/Products.aspx?catID=56 - here . |
Posted By: Connors
Date Posted: 19 September 2009 at 9:14pm
| Angelcare - love it |
Posted By: Inlove28
Date Posted: 26 September 2009 at 1:16pm
Ohhh good post, I am too trying to decide what monitor to purchase and are looking at getting a second hand Angel Care one, sounds like they are the way to go (even thou they are so pricy) 
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Posted By: MistyMolly
Date Posted: 29 September 2009 at 8:40am
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Philips Avent works really well for us! Though my experience so far (and it is a personal thing) is to not have it switched on permanently when your baby has been put to bed for a nap - I became obsessed listening to it and wondering if I should rush in at every noise. I switch it on intermittently now and keep it on at night on a low volume. My wee man has big lungs - if he needs me, he lets me know!
I know people like the monitors to check fro breathing etc. I just turn mine on here and there and check or else pop my head in the door and watch for a few seconds. Personally, I found monitors make me more edgy! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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