Hi,
I was wondering if any moms out there could recommend a good baby monitor. We have a two story house with a basement. I'd like to be able to carry the baby monitor around the house and into the backyard and be able to hear the baby. I currently have the Fisher Price Sounds and Lights monitor and it gets mostly static and drives me crazy. Thanks for your recommendations!
I wonder if you have something interfering with the monitor? We have a sound and lights that we have had for a while, so it is probably an older version, but we have the babies room up stairs in a two story house and I take it in the basement and out into the back yard with no problems. Perhaps you have a cordless phone on the same frequecy or a wireless router or something like that?
Good Luck,
D.
I love my Sony monitor. My favorite feature is where you turn it to a particular setting and noise only transmits when the baby makes sounds. In other words, you don't hear static or white noise all night long, just the sound of your little angel waking up (or coughing, cooing, or babbling).
Im interested to read the responses since our Graco monitor is a pain. Constant static and buzzing! The only place we get a halfway audible reception is when we put it in our bathroom, which is not terribly convenient.
I have a graco one that is pretty good and a sumner video one that is useless.
We have a Phillips monitor. It is not cheap and is in the $150 range but works great and is static free.
we have the sony baby call and it works good. some interference on occasion but there are several different channels you can try out. we have a finished basement and it works down there as well.
We also have the Phillips Advent and while it was expensive $150 on Amazon (we received it as a gift) it is really great. No interference whatsoever and we can clip it to ourselves and walk into the backyard and still hear here. There is also this neat light feature so it doesn't have to be loud and we can see the lights spike if our daughter is making sounds. Highly recommended. Good luck to you!
E. in Evanston
We also have a Sony Baby Call and have no complaints. It works great, some occasional feedback/static, but nothing big.
We've been very happy with the Philips Avent monitor, which rated top with Consumer Reports. Apparently, it's the only baby monitor to operate on its own frequency, so there's zero static. It's more expensive than the others but worth it, on an entirely different level. I found it at Amazon.com $50 cheaper than other places....
See:
http://www.amazon.com/Philips-Avent-SCD-590-Zero-Interfer...
