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On the list of things that I'm not going to drive myself crazy worrying over.

Agree with PP, there are so many things to worry about in the world, this was not one I gave thought too. the benefit outweighted the risk in my mind. I like to be able to see LO, and having a video monitor prevented me from getting up several times in the middle of the night, I could look over and see she was breathing & go back to sleep.

is it because it's wireless? if that's the case, you probably have a whole lot of other electronics you should be concerned with, too. So...nope, it wasn't a concern for me.

I thought about the radiation but I didn't come up with any research that I could understand. We have WiFi throughout the house, cell phones while nursing, and power lines - what's one more thing? I don't know. That being said, after two months we stopped using the monitor. Our LO is a screamer. There's no question about whether she's awake or not.

I love, love our video monitor. I couldn't live without it. I know LO's sleep patterns and can judge when to go in there and get him up for the day, etc. Benefits far outweigh the risks.

I honestly never really thought of this. The monitor is way up on her wall. You get radiation from everything, so I'm not too concerned

@fussygal: With one family I work for their compromise on the issue is to leave it off most of the time. Usually we can here the baby just fine but for the times we will be in the basement or doing dishes etc we flip it on. My understanding though is you need to flip the camera unit off to avoid the radiation issue so it does take some thought beforehand. I believe they leave it off overnight since their room is steps away.