So, this week, we bought ourselves a video monitor....and I love it! We actually hadn't even been using our regular monitor for quite a few months now since Canon has been sleeping through the night and our rooms are so close I always hear him when he cries. However, the past few weeks, since he figured out how to sit up in his crib, he has started not crying when he wakes up. He just sits himself up and plays with his little blankets, pacifiers and the bumper. We quickly realized that even though he wasn't making loud enough sounds until 8:30am, he had most likely been up for waaaaay longer than that! And he was doing it at naptime too! I felt so bad, thinking of him sitting in his crib all alone awake, even though he seemed to be having himself a great time.
So, we bought a video monitor. I did a little bit of research on some blogs I follow and Target's website reviews, and we landed on the Motorola Digital 2.8" Video Monitor.
It was nicely mid-priced and had the features I wanted - mainly the fact that it would also tell us the temperature in his room. Aaron loves the fact that we can talk to him in his room from our monitor, but I won't let him do it because I don't want Canon to get scared, haha. I'm sure it will come in handy when he gets older though.
So far, we love it! It is so fun to watch him squirm around, but most importantly it is nice to see him and know when he has actually woken up! It also came in quite nicely just this morning when it took him 40 minutes to go down for his nap! After watching him sitting up, playing and then fussing, we realized he must have thrown his pacifiers out of the crib and went in there to return them. After that, he was asleep in 5 minutes! So precious.
Finally asleep! I'm so glad we invested in this bit of technology and I know I will appreciate it more and more as he gets older and when we have more babies.
So, we bought a video monitor. I did a little bit of research on some blogs I follow and Target's website reviews, and we landed on the Motorola Digital 2.8" Video Monitor.
So far, we love it! It is so fun to watch him squirm around, but most importantly it is nice to see him and know when he has actually woken up! It also came in quite nicely just this morning when it took him 40 minutes to go down for his nap! After watching him sitting up, playing and then fussing, we realized he must have thrown his pacifiers out of the crib and went in there to return them. After that, he was asleep in 5 minutes! So precious.
Found you through A Liz's link up. I don't know what we would have ever done without our video monitor.
ReplyDeleteWhat did people do before monitors?LOL! Shelby has been in her crib since 3-weeks and it's been our saviour!
That's exactly what we were saying and we've only had it for 3 days! I am SO glad we got it! Just read your post about swaddling - I think I was more nervous about giving that up than anything else in Canon's short 9 months, but like your sweet girl, he did great! Keep up the great work!
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