We just got a video monitor over the weekend, and we can't stop watching it! I feel so stalker-ish. Right now I'm just watching LO kick around in his crib with his eyes open, even though I put him down about 45 mins ago!
We keep the sound on, but I've heard a lot of people don't?
GOLD / wonderful coconut / 33402 posts
I keep the sound on since her room is on the other side of the house from our bedroom. I just keep it on the lowest volume.
pomegranate / 3895 posts
We keep the sound off. There are lights at the top of ours that go from green to orange to red if he starts fussing / crying. His room is near ours and we are WELL AWARE if he's unhappy, too.
And yes, I'm a baby stalker. If I wake-up in the middle of the night I will often check the monitor. He will sometimes really freak me out and be awake at like 2 AM just looking around his room. Creeper baby.
GOLD / wonderful olive / 19030 posts
I used to do both, and then I turned the sound off and just kept the video on, and then I finally reversed it and turned video off and kept sound low. I've already decided this next child I'm going back to a classic one, I'm selling mine as it was keeping me from getting necessary sleep.
pomegranate / 3565 posts
With my 1st child, I did. This time, I just check it every so often. I keep it at the lowest level when I'm asleep.
With your next child you'll be too tired to check it all the time or let it wake you up!
nectarine / 2932 posts
@LBee: lol at creeper baby.
We keep our sound on. I don't know why - I can hear him loud and clear through the wall! I only turn the screen on when I want to sneak a peak or during naps.
blogger / grapefruit / 4836 posts
no sound...we have a small house and I can hear big noises. I only leave the video on when lo is playing in his room alone.
pear / 1849 posts
We keep the sound off because he's right across the hall. I check the video once before I go to bed, but that's really it. He's 2 though - I definitely checked it more often as a baby.
wonderful grape / 20453 posts
It's fun 
But we keep the sound off because she's down the hall--we can hear her if she is crying for sure. We'll check it when she's going down for a nap because she has a habit of throwing everything out of her bed.
papaya / 10570 posts
I like to keep the screen on during the evening but the sound off. At night, we are in the room next door so I keep sound and screen off, flicking it on if I hear her making noise.
pomegranate / 3779 posts
Ours has a sleep mode that turns off the video and sound if there is movement or irregular noise (i.e. not from the white noise) so we keep it on that.
pomelo / 5258 posts
Our house isn't big so we can hear LO. We only turn the monitor on when hear her and want to see what she's up to - like if she's really up for the day. I don't think we've turned the volume on since she was a week old.
papaya / 10343 posts
Yep I pretty much always keep the sound on. I stare at it while she is falling asleep then I generally just set it next to me and glance at it every so often.
cantaloupe / 6171 posts
I keep the sound on for when we're watching TV or something in the living room because it's easier to hear her that way. I turn it off at night though, otherwise all the sounds the radiator in her room makes wake me/keep me from getting into a deep sleep. I don't usually watch it anymore, only quick checks.
nectarine / 2272 posts
I turn the sound off because he's right down the hall so there's no point. We don't leave it on...we just check every once in a while or if he makes noise.
honeydew / 7295 posts
If we had one I would because I'm obsessive! I would also want sound.
pomegranate / 3716 posts
@mrs.shinerbock: that sounds like a cool feature, what model is yours? We may need to return the one we got as the software sucks!
eggplant / 11716 posts
I used to watch it constantly--but ours broke when LO was around 12 months, and I parent much better without it! I think if we had a bigger place with multiple stories, I would have more use for it.
pear / 1799 posts
I am not the kind of person that could have a video monitor. I would literally bring it everywhere and never put it down. I knew this about myself, so we opted for the cheapest, simple sound monitor.
@LBee: Haha! Nothing like a baby's glowing eyes at 2:00 am to mess with you! 
pomegranate / 3779 posts
@Meridian: Infant Optics DXR-5. We like it a lot and you can add additional cameras (up to 4) for multiple rooms. The only thing I don't love about it is that it really sucks up your wireless bandwidth, but I suspect that most video ones do that.
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