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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Sunday, July 22, 2007 - 2:21 pm
Any advice/suggestions/recommedations on these? TIA!
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Spygirl
Board Administrator
04-23-2001
| Monday, July 23, 2007 - 12:16 am
Do not buy anything marketed for baby - they tend to be overpriced and lower quality. Go to Sam's Club or somewhere like that. We bought a video monitor that lets us watch through TV or the handheld-sized base. In pitch dark we can see perfectly and the camera is remotely adjustable - up, down, left, right. It is marketed as a security camera, not a baby monitor, and it was about $130. We did go ahead and buy a $20 sound monitor b/c we had some minor static on the sound with the video system when we use it from one end of the house to the other. Now, we use the sound on that and the video on the other. I honestly don't know how anyone can sleep without being able to see the baby!!
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Monday, July 23, 2007 - 5:02 am
I honestly don't know how anyone can sleep without being able to see the baby!! you are just too cute! 
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Monday, July 23, 2007 - 7:29 am
quote:I honestly don't know how anyone can sleep without being able to see the baby!!
Rofl!!
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Monday, July 23, 2007 - 12:01 pm
And yet somehow we managed! ROFL
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Spygirl
Board Administrator
04-23-2001
| Monday, July 23, 2007 - 3:38 pm
I guess you guys can make fun. I was sincere...it really helps to know where he is in his crib so I don't have to worry about him getting limbs stuck in the crib slats or smashing his face against the bumpers and suffocating.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Monday, July 23, 2007 - 3:55 pm
I think if we knew about the kind of technology that Spy was talking about (if it were even available a few years ago), we would have done it. I loved watching them sleep anyway and knowing they were safe and happy.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Monday, July 23, 2007 - 4:00 pm
Well Spy how do you think people survived before video monitors? Or people who can't afford them? Babies grow up very well without adults looking at them constantly.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Monday, July 23, 2007 - 4:17 pm
Plus you gotta sleep sometime too!! Oh, Abby already got her leg caught in the slats. I heard her cry but thought she was half asleep and didn't want to wake her up more. Imagine my guilt the next morning when I went to get her and there she was sound asleep with her leg sticking out! Poor kid. But she survived!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, July 23, 2007 - 4:24 pm
No making fun here Spy, we co-slept with both our babies because neither one of us could stay in bed for more than a few minutes without running to check on them when they were in their cribs out of our room. Even when we moved their crib in our room we couldn't stop getting up, so if we'd had video monitors, I'd have happily tried it at least if it meant getting some sleep!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, July 23, 2007 - 4:42 pm
Belive me if the technology had been available when we were having litters of puppies we'd have had a set up!
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Dolphinschild
Member
06-22-2006
| Monday, July 23, 2007 - 5:02 pm
Spy, I wasn't able to sleep unless my babies were in bed with me. I would feel the slightest move from them I woke up and checked them. I had cribs for them, but neither one slept in them, it was a waste of money for me. During the day they slept in the living room with me watching and at night they slept with me in my bed. (I was always afraid they would knock the cover's off of them at night and freeze. I slept in one house where I had to manually turn the heater on and off, so at night we never had any heat.) I was also a single mother, so I had no one else to sleep with to worry about. Today I would get one of them monitors with the video, but I can bet the baby would probably still sleep with me at night. My niece and nephews slept with me too when they were young and I had them as well. I think it stemmed from something that happened one night while I was babysitting. There were 4 children and one was a baby. Everyone was in bed and I heard the baby choking and crying and I ran in to check on her. I noticed the baby was on her back and she had vommitted up. It wasn't a little spit up it was regular vomit. She was choking from it and I had to clear her throat to help her. Then when my first born was born, and in her crib, I fell into a deep sleep. I had her in her crib, because we were in same room. My mom woke me up, my baby had vomitted and was choking and I didn't hear her, I was sleeping really hard. So with those two events, it freaked me out and from then on, babies sleep with me.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Monday, July 23, 2007 - 5:05 pm
My mom got sick(lukemia) when Dylan was 13 mo old, when she came home after 3 mo in hospital I spent my nights going to her room to make sure she was breathing and then back to Dylan's crib to make sure he was breathing. Technology would have been a big help to me back then. It took 8 yrs and meds before I was able to sleep more than 1-2hrs at a time
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Dolphinschild
Member
06-22-2006
| Monday, July 23, 2007 - 5:12 pm
I agree Pamy, the technology that Spy mentioned would really help in that compasity. I will keep that in mind if I ever have to homecare my parents. I wake up every hour still. I am an insomniac, but not as bad as I use to be. I slept hard for the first time this year after 20 years and it scared me when I woke up and I realized how hard I slept. ETA: forgot to mention Pamy, sorry to hear about your mother. Hugs...
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-31-2000
| Monday, July 23, 2007 - 5:33 pm
Spy, my "baby' is now 13 years old (how did that happen??), but I was much like you when he was a baby. For the first two months, he slept in a bassinet by my bed. Then he moved to a crib, but I never slept as well, every time I stirred, I got up to make sure he was okay. Babies didn't always make it without technology. How many moms and dads have woken up in the morning to find a baby gone in the crib. I thank God we have better technology to ensure they are safe in their own rooms.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Monday, July 23, 2007 - 5:58 pm
I've contemplated getting a webcam to keep an eye on Mom if I ever can find a job and go back to work. I figured I could check up on her from my computer at work (if so allowed). When she came home from the hospital, I needed a way to keep in contact with her in case she needed anything when I was in bed (my bedroom is upstairs, and hers is on the main level). I looked into baby monitors, but it didn't give a way for her to contact me if she needed something. So, we use walkie talkies. Over the years (can you believe its been 6 years now?), she's had to wake me up a couple of times when she either fell out of bed, or fell when trying to get to the bathroom.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Monday, July 23, 2007 - 7:33 pm
Thx Dolphin, I appreciate it.xoxoxo
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Dolphinschild
Member
06-22-2006
| Monday, July 23, 2007 - 8:06 pm
your welcome Pamy! Hugs...
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, July 25, 2007 - 5:31 am
oh, spy..don't get your feelings hurt. i knew you were sincere. your enthusiasm for motherhood is touching. your comment just tickled me. we have all watched our kids sleep at one time or another.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Wednesday, July 25, 2007 - 6:28 am
ITA with Annie, Spy. I'm sure if they'd had those things when our kids were babies we would have had them too. Instead, Mandy's crib was in my bedroom from the time she was born until she was almost a year old when I got married so I watched her sleep alot.
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