https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 10 Jun 2026 04:31:39 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/just-need-to-say-it#post-1920542 Wed, 29 Oct 2014 08:12:47 +0000 JMOM 1920542@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Could you get a 2nd cheapy monitor as a backup to help ease your fears about the video monitor not working? Or maybe a friend has one they aren't using that you could borrow until you get used to the transition? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/just-need-to-say-it#post-1920455 Wed, 29 Oct 2014 06:59:28 +0000 My Only Sunshine 1920455@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mae: It gets so much easier! I felt exactly this way when we moved our daughter to her room. For like a week I would wake up in the middle of the night and make sure the monitor was still working.</p> <p>Now she's 13 months and it doesn't cross my mind to worry about not hearing the monitor. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/just-need-to-say-it#post-1920325 Tue, 28 Oct 2014 22:41:13 +0000 loveisstrange 1920325@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Honestly? She may surprise you and sleep 10x better in her own room. I know C did.</p> <p>For the first couple weeks, I woke up freaking out all the time. It definitely got better and easier. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/just-need-to-say-it#post-1920225 Tue, 28 Oct 2014 21:13:29 +0000 Mae 1920225@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. D: ah haha yea. We actually use baby gates now around the house-- but just to keep the dog penned to various areas. Cats just hop on over like they're nothing. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/just-need-to-say-it#post-1920224 Tue, 28 Oct 2014 21:12:25 +0000 Mrs. D 1920224@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mae: My moms cats I guess were lazy, they never jumped higher than a doorknob. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/just-need-to-say-it#post-1920222 Tue, 28 Oct 2014 21:11:14 +0000 Mae 1920222@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. D: We do leave the monitor plugged in all the time. It will be fine unless the monitor just totally stops working for some reason. Also, you don't have cats do you? :) Our cats can jump onto/over anything around 5 ft or less (possibly higher). There is really nothing to put on the door that would leave it open to sound but closed to cats. Unless we put a screen door on our bedroom... hmmm lol </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/just-need-to-say-it#post-1920212 Tue, 28 Oct 2014 21:03:42 +0000 Mrs. D 1920212@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Monitors can be plugged in, and you should also have the batteries in there for back up for piece of mind.</p> <p>We keep her door closed to keep the dog out, but leave ours open so the puppy can get in and out. Have you considered a pair of baby gates? that way you could leave the doors open and the cats could not get in. Or if it's an option, changing the doors so they open at the top and the bottom can stay closed, kind of a built in baby gate. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/just-need-to-say-it#post-1919187 Tue, 28 Oct 2014 11:38:56 +0000 catomd00 1919187@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I know the feeling, but you'll both be fine. If not, you can always switch back. I feel like mom's have a sixth sense for crying - you'll hear her! Oftentimes I wake up right before my DD does even now that she's in her own room (and even on nights I accidentally turn the monitor off!) Good luck! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/just-need-to-say-it#post-1919135 Tue, 28 Oct 2014 11:18:34 +0000 catlady 1919135@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hugs! You will be ok. I felt similar when we moved LO to her room, which is also on a different floor from ours, and we also close all our doors due to cats. :) One thing I discovered is that I am very sensitive to her noises so I can hear her even through the doors/floors without the monitor on. We use white noise in her room so usually we keep the sound to the monitor on all the time and the white noise is actually decent white noise for us too, and we just check the video if we hear her. It was pretty distracting in the early days, so sometimes we would take turns with ear plugs so one person could sleep. Now I'm used to it (plus she STTN so she doesn't make much sound at night any more) and it really is no big deal that we are a floor away. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/just-need-to-say-it#post-1919116 Tue, 28 Oct 2014 11:12:44 +0000 Adira 1919116@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mae: I'm a WOHM, but I had the same instincts. We ended up staying in the guest room for over a year!!!! We only recently moved back into our master bedroom because we had to convert the guest room into Xander's new toddler room in preparation for baby #2 taking the nursery. You gotta do what you gotta do. :D </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/just-need-to-say-it#post-1919106 Tue, 28 Oct 2014 11:09:21 +0000 Mae 1919106@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Adira: yes our guest bedroom is next to the nursery. Actually for the first 4 nights my mom will be staying with us so I guess for that time, she is a failsafe because she'll be able to hear her if I don't. After she goes I may seriously consider us sleeping up there for a few more days. I sort of feel like I'm being neurotic but I think its one of those instinctual things, maybe especially because I SAH and I'm with my LO 24/7... the idea of her being so far away from me just feels wrong (even though my rational brain is ready, my emotional brain isn't maybe?) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/just-need-to-say-it#post-1919101 Tue, 28 Oct 2014 11:07:06 +0000 Smurfette 1919101@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our bedroom and the nursery are on opposite sides of the house. It will get easier and you adjust. If you are really worried about it, once you go to bed, just open the nursery's door. If LO is really crying I am sure you will hear her. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/just-need-to-say-it#post-1919099 Tue, 28 Oct 2014 11:06:12 +0000 Lindsay05 1919099@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We had a similar issue. DD1's bedroom is directly underneath us but is the farthest away from out bed. We wouldn't hear her unless she was screaming so we do have to rely on the monitor. We also keep her door closed because of our dogs. It was hard at first knowing she was all by herself but the monitor does give a peace of mind. I also made sure there is a working smoke detector by her door. After the initial worry, you realize the freedom you suddenly have! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/just-need-to-say-it#post-1919095 Tue, 28 Oct 2014 11:05:05 +0000 Adira 1919095@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It's definitely not the same situation because Xander is older, but we recently just moved him into his new Toddler Room and now have the situation you described - his bedroom is upstairs on the opposite end of the house from our bedroom and we can't hear him without the video monitor. That said, I do think my hearing has increased since becoming a mom and I wake up to the slightest sounds now, so maybe you won't have an issue, even if your monitor fails!</p> <p>When we first moved Xander to his nursery, we actually ended up moving into the guest room so we could be closer to him. I'm not sure it was necessary, but I felt more comfortable doing something like that, especially while he was still a baby. Do you have an option to do something like that for a week or so? It might make you feel more comfortable about the transition and then you can move back into your master bedroom. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/just-need-to-say-it#post-1919094 Tue, 28 Oct 2014 11:04:56 +0000 Applesandbananas 1919094@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think it's totally normal to freak out! Just remember, nothing is permanent, if you hate the new set up, you can move her back! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/just-need-to-say-it#post-1919085 Tue, 28 Oct 2014 11:00:12 +0000 Mae 1919085@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So we have plans to move our LO to her nursery (finally) this weekend at 5.5 months. We were planning to move her around 12 weeks but then her sleep went to shit and I was up so much with her it was just easier to have her right next to me in her pack n play. </p> <p>But now it is 5.5 months and her sleep is better(ish) but still kind of sucky but we are just ready to have our room back. I am worried I'll be running up to replace her paci 6-10+ times like I do now and it will net me even less sleep than I'm currently getting, but also slightly hopeful that maybe she'll sleep better in her own room anyways and maybe will wake less. </p> <p>But here's the thing. I am sort of freaking out about her being so far away! Maybe that isn't rational because I know she is safe in her crib and we have a video monitor that works just fine (we use it every night on mute even though she is in our room so that I can just look at the monitor to see if her eyes are open, because I can't tell in the dark). </p> <p>But our house is sort of big and has an odd layout, meaning our bedroom is on a different floor at the opposite end of the house from her. We have to keep bedroom doors closed at night because if we don't the cats harass us and won't let us sleep, but with the doors closed there is 0% chance of hearing her cry without the monitor unless/until she started reallllly screaming and even then I'm not sure it would be loud enough for us to hear and wake up. </p> <p>I just keep worrying the monitor will fail and she'll wake up and cry and I won't hear her. And I know even if that happens, she'll survive. But as the day of her move gets closer I'm just freaking out.</p> <p>Anyone else go through this? Anyone else's baby sleep far enough away you have to rely solely on a monitor? Does it get easier? </p>