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We have an older model Motorola with two cameras but I know the functionality is the same with my BIL's Baby Optix monitor. Essentially, you can select on the parent unit to focus on either camera solely or you can select the scan setting which jumps from one camera for some short interval (maybe 15 seconds) and then to the other and then back again. I personally think I would be annoyed having to carry two separate parent units around the house but maybe it wouldn't be that big of a deal if the kids had different naptimes, etc.

I had this same dilemma! We bought a summer monitor that had two camera's and set up a camera in LO1 room and LO2 room. I use the split screen at all times so I can see both and I use the sound on the summer monitor for LO1. For sound for LO2 I use our old angel care monitor that is not video but it is the motion detecting one so it gives me peace of mind that it's detecting LO2 breathing (we used it for lo1 until she was like 2). Anyway, it works for us.. I do have two monitors on my end.

If I hear LO2 I just check the video to see what he's up to. It works for me.

There is a smalls square of the 2nd camera (you can choose which one to be the smaller square). Note that that square will have no sound. But it has worked totally fine for us b/c we bed share so we are only watching them up till we go to bed. DD1 doesn't really stir so we keep her on the small square just in case. DD2 is on the main screen with sound.

@MrsADS: I rely on the monitor heavily too. DD is 4 but I still use it for her and have no plans to stop...

Sorry, I didnt read all responses, but here is what we did with our motorola.

-Got a second monitor
-Got a cheap sound only monitor (like $30 vTech)

During nap time we left the monitor on DD2, but toggled back n forth as needed.

At night, we set the monitor to scan while we were awake, it would switch back n forth between DD1 and DD2 like every 2 mins or something. When we went to bed for the night we'd set the video monitor to DD2, and turn the sound only monitor on DD1.

I should note that when I moved DD2 out of my room at 12 weeks, DD1 was 2 years 9 months when we moved her to sound only...

We use the Motorola units. We just got a second camera for DS2. You can set it up to just scan between the two rooms - it jumps back and forth like every 20 seconds or whatever. Or you just hit the OK button and manually switch between cameras.

If you turn the sound on, you get sound for both rooms - you can't just listen for one and not the other.

I typically keep the screen black at night except for the very early newborn stage and I don't leave the sound on at all. I can hear my children just fine when they cry from their rooms.

I posted the same question a few weeks ago and based on recommendations on here, Amazon reviews and online ratings, I went with the Infant Optics DXR-8. I got a great deal with the 15% amazon registry completion discount and a $20 off special they had a few days ago (might still be going on). I paid $119.