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We share a wall with C's room so I can hear her very well when she cries- and I still kept the sound on our monitor for ages! Could you put a gate in your doorway to keep the dog in, and keep your door open, and crack T's door?

We turned off the monitor around 9/10 months and it was fine. We haven't used one in a really long time. However, our rooms shared a wall so we could hear her pretty well.

I still have the moniter on. N is 28 months. We don't have a video one tho and he is one room over. We share a wall. Dh thinks I am nuts.

We don't use a monitor at all! Never have. Our house is all one level.

We don't have a monitor, but we also live in a smallish apartment. I'm a light sleeper and hear EVERYTHING!

I don't think I could do it, and DS is two years old. Lol

While we have our monitor on silent (video), E's room is probably 20 feet away from our bed on the same floor. There's our bathroom, a closet, and a guest bathroom in between us all. And i can still totally hear her if she wakes up crying.

I think if T is only two rooms away, you could certainly hear him if he started crying!!!! Honestly, if we didn't have a video monitor, we wouldn't even bother with having one. Even if we are downstairs watching tv, we can hear her crying!

I slept with a monitor the first few months and then we switched to a video monitor that had a broken speaker (from ebay so couldn't easily return) so I had to use it without sound. I could hear him fine from our room without it, so I didn't worry a whole lot but I can see that if you can't hear him with both doors shut that can be a little stressful for you. Why not just invest in a cheap audio monitor and be able to sleep in your room again and then you can keep it as a back up, or to use when traveling? When we upgraded to a proper video monitor I gave my mom our audio one for when she babysits or when we visit and LO needs to nap.

We are on a different floor on the opposite side if the house from lo and with her white noise on we can't hear her when she cries. Our video monitor is flukey so I bought a super cheap (like $20) audio monitor that we leave on as backup.

Very. We haven't used ours for many months now. We would most likely hear her cry from our room anyway.

We use our video monitor when we are in the living room, but our audio monitor in the bedroom is silenced. Her room is across the hall from ours and I can hear her with no problem. We keep all of our doors open and the house is all one level.

I probably need to stop using the audio because it's always silenced!

Couldn't do it. DS's room is at the other end of the hall. Plus we both use sound machines. No way I could hear him without a monitor

we never had one!

We leave the sound off, but he just started tummy sleeping so I'm still a little crazy about watching him for breathing if I wake-up in the middle of the night. I've learned that if he's awake and pissed, I will know... as will the rest of the neighborhood.

We have a video monitor, but only so we can see him when we already know he is crying. Even across the house and down a level I can hear him well enough (we watch TV in the basement after he goes to bed). At 2, I only watch him on it because I think he's so cute, haha.