https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 28 Apr 2026 05:15:57 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-far-would-you-go-with-a-sleeping-baby-at-home/page/2#post-786552 Thu, 16 May 2013 13:31:57 +0000 yin 786552@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The furthest I have left the house was my front yard to trim some bushes. I kept watch on my phone, and I was still so paranoid. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-far-would-you-go-with-a-sleeping-baby-at-home/page/2#post-786443 Thu, 16 May 2013 13:07:59 +0000 bunnylove08 786443@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I live in an apartment building (1st floor) and I have run out in front of our apt building to the tree with my dog let her pee and run back into the apartment. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-far-would-you-go-with-a-sleeping-baby-at-home/page/2#post-786340 Thu, 16 May 2013 12:44:03 +0000 JoyfulKiwi 786340@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Champagne: Leave the MONITOR with a neighbor?! Holy cow! I feel like that's so irresponsible. What if someone broke into the house? Or there was a fire? You can't react to those things appropriately with just a baby monitor.</p> <p>We live in a house and I would get the mail or groceries or work in the garden (with the monitor). But I wouldn't let the house out of my sight or be gone for longer than a few minutes. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-far-would-you-go-with-a-sleeping-baby-at-home/page/2#post-786337 Thu, 16 May 2013 12:43:42 +0000 2PeasinaPod 786337@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We live in a single family home. I'll stay in the yard as long as the monitor is with me. I've hung laundry on the line with the monitor in my back pocket. We've also sat out on our patio with the monitor as well. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-far-would-you-go-with-a-sleeping-baby-at-home/page/2#post-786336 Thu, 16 May 2013 12:43:34 +0000 pl0508 786336@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We live in a single family home. I don't go past my yard but would check mail, let out the dog, get things out of my car ! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-far-would-you-go-with-a-sleeping-baby-at-home/page/2#post-786301 Thu, 16 May 2013 12:34:35 +0000 prettylizy 786301@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I will cross the street to get mail and uload the car. If she is napping I'll head outside in the yard to do yardwork etc, especially if her window is open so I can hear her. At night we'll sit in the backyard and relax on the patio, though I'd make sure to have the monitor if I couldn't hear her. I'd even venture as far as our neighbours patio, which is 14" further south of our patio (subdivision living). To me, being in the yard or being in the kitchen is the same as long as I can hear her and she is safe. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-far-would-you-go-with-a-sleeping-baby-at-home/page/2#post-786284 Thu, 16 May 2013 12:29:49 +0000 immabeetoo 786284@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Anagram: I totally get your point about proximity but I'd be terrified of locking myself out somehow!</p> <p>We stay in the yard or garage. Mailbox is across the street and ill run there if I have to. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-far-would-you-go-with-a-sleeping-baby-at-home/page/2#post-786281 Thu, 16 May 2013 12:28:55 +0000 rrachael 786281@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: I didn't take my eyes off her for a few weeks ... and then I realized, okay I really want to brush my teeth/wash my face/feel human.... and DH isn't home for six more hours :P She loved her mobile (if she was awake) and was totally safe in her crib and I had the monitor on the counter in front of me ...... baby steps :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-far-would-you-go-with-a-sleeping-baby-at-home/page/2#post-786259 Thu, 16 May 2013 12:23:42 +0000 Foodnerd81 786259@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@rrachael: Yup-- as soon as we get a monitor, I'm going to test it out. Not that I think I will let the baby out of my sight in the beginning! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-far-would-you-go-with-a-sleeping-baby-at-home/page/2#post-786226 Thu, 16 May 2013 12:14:17 +0000 rrachael 786226@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Same as @twoofeverything ... if I can see her with the monitor, I feel totally okay going about chores and such in my house and in the yard. A couple of times I've put my dogs on leashes and walked them up and down the sidewalk in front of my neighbors' homes on either side - but the entire time I'm watching her on my monitor and in view of her nursery window {it faces the front of the house}. </p> <p>Test out your signal when DH is home so you know your limits and what you're comfortable with. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-far-would-you-go-with-a-sleeping-baby-at-home/page/2#post-786224 Thu, 16 May 2013 12:14:03 +0000 Running Elley 786224@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We live in a house and I'll go unload the car or get the mail but that's it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-far-would-you-go-with-a-sleeping-baby-at-home#post-786221 Thu, 16 May 2013 12:12:35 +0000 mrsjyw 786221@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>we live in a single family home and i don't venture far when i'm home alone w the baby. the furtheset i've gone is the basement with the monitor. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-far-would-you-go-with-a-sleeping-baby-at-home#post-786190 Thu, 16 May 2013 12:01:38 +0000 Corduroy 786190@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm in an apartment and I've left LO in the apartment while I change a load of laundry in the communal laundry room. Honestly, I think it's safer than bringing her with me. When she's with me in a carrier I'm nervous about tripping on the stairs with a laundry basket, hitting her with the laundry basket or hurting her or my back reaching to the bottom of the washer. When I left her I was gone 4 minutes. But DH asked me not to leave her so I won't do it anymore. </p> <p>I'll still get the mail, get something from the car, or let someone in the complex which are all a trip down a flight of stairs - two flights from her room. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-far-would-you-go-with-a-sleeping-baby-at-home#post-786186 Thu, 16 May 2013 11:59:27 +0000 autumnlove 786186@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Checking the mail. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-far-would-you-go-with-a-sleeping-baby-at-home#post-786183 Thu, 16 May 2013 11:58:13 +0000 hilsy85 786183@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I live in an apt building (on the 6th floor) and the farthest I'll go is to the recycling room right next door to our apt. I won't leave our little part of the hallway. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-far-would-you-go-with-a-sleeping-baby-at-home#post-786129 Thu, 16 May 2013 11:45:44 +0000 lomom 786129@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I check mail, bring in groceries, drag the trashcans back in from the curb, etc. </p> <p>We don't have a monitor but I'm never gone more than a few minutes. If I'm carrying in groceries, I poke my head in LO's room in between trips. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-far-would-you-go-with-a-sleeping-baby-at-home#post-786124 Thu, 16 May 2013 11:45:02 +0000 MamaMoose 786124@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My next door neighbor's yard is the farthest I've gone. With monitor in hand and a full view of my house.</p> <p>If I lived in an apartment building I would not leave the apartment (other than an attached balcony) without my baby. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-far-would-you-go-with-a-sleeping-baby-at-home#post-786119 Thu, 16 May 2013 11:43:50 +0000 Mrs. Pen 786119@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We lived in a townhouse for his first 7.5 months. Our mailbox was at the end of our street, but really only a couple hundred feet, if even. I would walk to the mailbox if he was sleeping. Since the garage was technically in the townhouse, I would definitely do things in there and get things out of the car. I always get a monitor with me.</p> <p>We live in a three story apartment now, we're on the second floor at the very end of the building. He's a toddler so I am not as paranoid. If he is sleeping I will go down and get the mail/packages in the apt lobby. The monitor doesn't go that far, but it's less than 2 minutes I'm gone.</p> <p>I wouldn't go out to the car though, since I'm in a big building, I wouldn't leave the building. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-far-would-you-go-with-a-sleeping-baby-at-home#post-786115 Thu, 16 May 2013 11:42:25 +0000 twinmama 786115@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I got locked out of the house while babysitting with the young kids inside when I was a teenager, so my limit is more or less, past a locked door :) </p> <p>Our monitor doesn't reach that far, so I'm pretty much limited to inside the house, but I've gone out on the back patio if they're sleeping a long time....but I only shut the screen, not the glass door! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-far-would-you-go-with-a-sleeping-baby-at-home#post-786102 Thu, 16 May 2013 11:39:25 +0000 BananaPancakes 786102@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No further than our yard, which is an acre. And I always bring the monitor. I'll go out and garden for as long as he's napping, so I don't really have a time limit. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-far-would-you-go-with-a-sleeping-baby-at-home#post-786093 Thu, 16 May 2013 11:36:21 +0000 blackbird 786093@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'll water the plants, get the mail, bring in groceries. I will also leave her downstairs in the swing if I'm upstairs, with the monitor near me. When I water the plants, I don't bring the monitor. I just come inside and take a peek before going to the front of the house </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-far-would-you-go-with-a-sleeping-baby-at-home#post-786087 Thu, 16 May 2013 11:32:16 +0000 mrsjazz 786087@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I never leave the apartment without her. If she's sleeping, I'll wait to do what I need to do. When she's awake, I strap her in the carrier and she comes with me to do laundry, etc. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-far-would-you-go-with-a-sleeping-baby-at-home#post-786084 Thu, 16 May 2013 11:31:26 +0000 Smurfette 786084@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I will run out to the car or grab the mail but that is about it </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-far-would-you-go-with-a-sleeping-baby-at-home#post-786082 Thu, 16 May 2013 11:31:16 +0000 littlebug 786082@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've been out in the yard gardening, getting bags from the car....as long as I know I"ll be just in and out f the house quickly, or the monitor still works, I think it's fine. I have friends who walk up to the neighbor's house with the monitor and hang out, and I don't see a problem with that, as long as the kids are in a safe place and the house is locked up. I don't immediately run to the baby as soon as he makes a noise, so I think walking back from the neighbor's house would be perfectly acceptable. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-far-would-you-go-with-a-sleeping-baby-at-home#post-786076 Thu, 16 May 2013 11:30:07 +0000 PrincessBaby 786076@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have a 2 story home and her crib is upstairs. I will only go out to let the dog out with the video monitor. And sometimes he takes so long I still get nervous leaving her.</p> <p>If I have her in the carseat/car and need to run back inside, I only do it if my car is parked in the garage with the door closed...I'd never leave her even for a second in the driveway in my car...That Madeline story haunts me... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-far-would-you-go-with-a-sleeping-baby-at-home#post-786069 Thu, 16 May 2013 11:28:35 +0000 lovehoneybee 786069@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We live in an apartment (private entrances) and I'll check the mail or lay/sit out on the deck while he naps. I always have the monitor with me, and I'm less than 2 minutes away. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-far-would-you-go-with-a-sleeping-baby-at-home#post-786030 Thu, 16 May 2013 11:20:05 +0000 Mrsbells 786030@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>we are in an apartment so I never leave the apartment without her. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-far-would-you-go-with-a-sleeping-baby-at-home#post-786026 Thu, 16 May 2013 11:18:53 +0000 twoofeverything 786026@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'll go as far as my video monitor signal will let me! I've never tried the mailbox, (it's probably too far), so basically just out to the car/driveway or the backyard. If something were to go wrong or somebody let out a huge wail, I'd want to be able to get to them FAST. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-far-would-you-go-with-a-sleeping-baby-at-home#post-786025 Thu, 16 May 2013 11:18:48 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 786025@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Just our yard. I usually leave her window open and go out in the backyard and lay out/tan if it's sunny out. :) that way I can hear her with the open window. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-far-would-you-go-with-a-sleeping-baby-at-home#post-785979 Thu, 16 May 2013 11:11:26 +0000 Andrea 785979@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I live in a house and would not leave the property. We have Foscam so I check up on her on the app. I always have my phone with me so that is handy. </p>