When I was buying my baby equipment for my elder child I had my eyes on this monitor. Id seen it in family members houses and thought the sensor mat and little 'pip' noises were a great idea to let parents know how their baby was doing in their sleep. When I went to buy it they were out of stock and so we bought an alternative, but very similar Tommee Tippee monitor which was also a great baby monitor although we still like to keep it in our 2 year old's room at night as he is now in a bed and so we like to hear if he is getting up so that we can get up and make sure he is ok. (obviously at 2 we have removed the sensor mat, but its still nice to be able to hear him- for example 2 nights ago he was ill while he slept and it was great to hear that he needed us straight away as otherwise we would not have realised until one of us went to check on him which could have been a further half hour as he did not waken up when he was ill)

My little girl is still in her Moses Basket but that doesn't stop me using the monitor when I am in a different room from her. It's not ideal but it will suffice until she gets into her cot. I love the reassurance of knowing she is moving around. My daughter was born by emergency section slightly before full term after growth scans showed she was not growing in the womb very well. She is well over 9lb now but although she is a healthy little fighter I was very worried while the docs made sure a neonatal bed was free for her as she was born. Thankfully she arrived in the world needing no extra help other than lamps for jaundice, but the very memory of her arrival is enough for me to want all the helpful baby gadgets I can have just to keep sane and not be checking her breathing every 2 minutes. The monitor provides that peace.

Baby monitors have been around for a long time. It is not always convenient to have our infants in the same room as us and with the cot-death advice that we should have our children sleeping in the room with us for the first six months, having a good quality monitor is a must-have for a lot of new parents. We live in a bungalow where the kitchen is quite a walk away from the baby's bedroom and so I need to be able to hear her so I can make a quick trip to see she is ok if anything troubles me over the monitor.

The Parent Unit has a nursery temperature sensor so parents can keep and eye that the heat of the room the baby is in, is at a suitable warmth. Overheating, and on the other hand, being too cold can be dangerous for a young child.

MY EXPERIENCES
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I find the parent unit blends fairly well into our normal living quarters. It is inoffensive and rests in its little stand on top of our hifi. I haven't noticed any hikes in our electricity bills either so I assume it doesn't use an awful lot!

I sometimes get a little confused with the menu button and its sometimes a war to get the setting I want (usually just to see the temperature when someone has been fiddling with the monitor- namely my toddler son) It is fiddly- I have long nails and the buttons are tiny. The simple solution would be to trim my nails but this is the first time my nails have grown so I want to keep them for as long as possible! I would also imagine having large fingers would make this hard too.

I would wholeheartedly recommend this monitor to anyone who is in the market for baby products at the moment. I know monitors are not for everyone, and perhaps we live in an overly monitored world at the minute but for me, I like to know exactly what is going on in my baby's bedroom.