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Baby Monitors Overview

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When designing your baby’s nursery, consider adding a baby monitor to help you listen for your sleeping baby while in a different room. This will help give you peace of mind that baby is okay without having to constantly press your ear against the door. Baby monitors allow you to hear or see your baby’s cries through sounds and lights broadcasted over a radio transmitter, which gives you freedom to move about the house or even work in the garden outside while baby is napping during the day or sleeping at night. Baby monitors can be especially helpful for a concerned parent with a sick baby since you can listen for coughing, wheezing or other signs of discomfort through the monitor.

Typically, baby monitors come in two parts - a transmitter and receiver - and can be plugged into the wall or carried around with the parent while operating on batteries. If they are placed within ten feet of the baby’s bed, monitors can pick up sounds and movements that baby is making. Some models allow you to view your baby on a television screen, while some models even let you talk to your baby through the receiver and soothe him with your voice from a distance.

Baby monitors are very convenient, but can have operational difficulties at times. Cordless phones, concrete walls or other baby monitors in close proximity can interfere with the reception that you receive and produce static feedback. Sometimes you can even hear a neighbor’s conversations (or vice versa) through a monitor if you have them set on the same channel. If this happens, simply change the monitor channel to see if the problem clears.

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