Do I need a baby monitor?

[Mom2Deacon]

I am currently looking for a new place to live. Currently Deacon and I are separated by a wall. A house I did look at, that I absolutely love, has our rooms separated by a bathroom. But I am wondering if I need a baby monitor because of our rooms being more separated. Deacon will be sharing a room with his brother Sebastian, and Alex or Hawke will be across the hall (not very wide hallway). I have never had a baby monitor for any of our kids. I am really great at waking up from unsettling noises. Do many of you have baby monitors for the younger children?

--Sara

[ROVERT81402]

I have a baby monitor, but Trevor shares a room with his 17month old brother. If it weren't for that, I don't know if I would have one,,,,I think I would.

[Caydens_Mommy]

Cayden is sleeping in my room and I know that if/when I move him to another room I'm going to get one for him because I don't think that I could bare not being able to not be able to hear him.

[thebestnest5]

What does your mama instinct tell you?

I realize, for me, that I won't regret being more cautious.
We have CGM, so we use a radio shack monitor to hear the alarms and that actually helps me sleep...odd thing to say, I know. Without the radio shack thing, I do not allow my body to fall into a deep sleep and I end up more tired in the morning.

[valerie k]

if matt ever chooses to spend time in his own bed instead of the dogs bed right next to my bed, I will be getting a "diabetec" monitor (cant call it baby, he will bulk) when we start using the CGMS to hear the alarms.

[Lee]

I have one - even though she is right next door - I have to keep my door shut to keep the cat out - or else I wouldn't and just leave the door open. I sleep better because I can hear her.

[Mom2Deacon]

We do keep all doors open at night. Since I have nothing loud in my room blocking noises I can hear anything and everything. Deacon has one of those sharper image sound machines. He loves falling asleep to the bamboo wind chimes. I am concerned that the baby monitor is going to intensify every noise in that room that I will not be able to sleep well.

--Sara

[zell828]

I am currently looking for a new place to live. Currently Deacon and I are separated by a wall. A house I did look at, that I absolutely love, has our rooms separated by a bathroom. But I am wondering if I need a baby monitor because of our rooms being more separated. Deacon will be sharing a room with his brother Sebastian, and Alex or Hawke will be across the hall (not very wide hallway). I have never had a baby monitor for any of our kids. I am really great at waking up from unsettling noises. Do many of you have baby monitors for the younger children?

--Sara

We just bought a baby monitor for my SD because she recently moved into her own room downstairs. She was right next to our room before. I have always used a monitor on my kids anyway as I would turn it on when they were upstairs sleeping and I was downstairs. So I went out and purchased another monitor now to hear upstairs when they are downstairs! :)

[Nancy in VA]

We don't have one. We never did when they were babies. We used one when we trialed the CGMS because you can't hear the alarms otherwise, but that's it.

[KeltonsMom]

Kelton sometimes goes low in the middle of the night, thankfully he wakes up when he does go low. However, there was one night I heard him thrashing around in his sleep and I got up went into his room and woke him up and he tested and found he was low. Since then I dug around in the garage for the baby monitor that Mark used when Nik was a baby and have it in Kelton's room.

If anything it helps me sleep better at night knowing that it is in there and I can hear him if he needs help.

[momtojess]

We never used one until last night when we got the cgms.

Our bedroom is down stairs and our kids room are upstairs

[Hockeygirl]

Our bedroom is downstairs and the kids are up. I got a great idea from another mom. A wireless doorbell, with 2 doorbell transmitters...It is great. You plug the chime in in our room and all they have to do is push the button that is right by their bed. It works great. They have both been low and it woke us up.