Age to get rid of baby monitor?

[Anti-Chris]

I had a discussion with a colleague that complained about not getting any sleep due to his kid's baby monitor keeping him up at night... I found it odd that he still has a baby monitor at age 4...
Now, I never used a baby monitor on my kids... Oddly enough my kids were born with automatic malfunction detection and a very loud alert siren when something was wrong... And to top it off, the standard built in monitor my kids came with never gave false alarms.
At what age did you stop using a baby monitor for your kids?

 

[Ancalagon]

When they start playing kak teenager music that you don't want to listen to, you turn it off.

Jokes I don't know!

 

[Binary_Bark]

2 years

 

[neoprema]

When a random stranger starts talking over it.

 

[Paul Kemp]

I don’t even think we used one for our second kid but for the first probably a year due to new parent paranoia.

 

[Tomtomtom]

Never used one, except for special cases like leaving the baby sleeping somewhere out of earshot.

Within earshot there is no point. Also, SIDS is a silent death afaik. And if you have a heart-beat monitor or whatever the false alarms are going to freak you out. I feel sorry for parents with that level of anxiety actually.

 

[Geoff.D]

I had a discussion with a colleague that complained about not getting any sleep due to his kid's baby monitor keeping him up at night... I found it odd that he still has a baby monitor at age 4...
Now, I never used a baby monitor on my kids... Oddly enough my kids were born with automatic malfunction detection and a very loud alert siren when something was wrong... And to top it off, the standard built in monitor my kids came with never gave false alarms.
At what age did you stop using a baby monitor for your kids?

When you hear those strange fap-fap sounds at night?

 

[TheBadMadMan]

...parents with that level of anxiety actually.

IMO, this happens when the wife gets to go all paranoid without the husband keeping her paranoia in check. Most women have anxiety levels over 9000 by default.

 

[Geoff.D]

I had a discussion with a colleague that complained about not getting any sleep due to his kid's baby monitor keeping him up at night... I found it odd that he still has a baby monitor at age 4...
Now, I never used a baby monitor on my kids... Oddly enough my kids were born with automatic malfunction detection and a very loud alert siren when something was wrong... And to top it off, the standard built in monitor my kids came with never gave false alarms.
At what age did you stop using a baby monitor for your kids?

Ditto. We did okay with all the OEM facilities.

 

[Quintrix]

Never used. Also kids grew up with tiled stairs Researched all kind of gates etc but took too long. Found first one on top of stairs and he automatically engaged reverse gear. OEM is best

 

[karnuffel]

IMO, this happens when the wife gets to go all paranoid without the husband keeping her paranoia in check. Most women have anxiety levels over 9000 by default.

I need a manual for that please, willing to pay or torrent.

 

[Lupus]

We stopped at about 9 months old or so. But 4 is ridiculous, but I still see a lot of parents who moan that their kids keep them up and this and that some of them are still on the boob at 2. Some people will over protect their kids, good on them but don't moan at me.
I mean we went the route of self-soothing, don't know if it was good or bad, I mean we only have one child but he pretty much slept through the night since he was 9months old and now and again at 9 years old will talk in his sleep.

 

[Moto Guzzi]

I had no baby monitor myself, but boy do I have adult monitors.

 

[My_King]

When you start hearing masturbating noises, you then switch over to IP cameras.....

Seriously...who installs cameras in their kids rooms:

 

[Paul Kemp]

Checked my memory with the missus last night. She says no longer than 6 months.

 

[Deandbn]

Get a smaller house so you can hear the child screaming in the next room.. Problem solved.

 

[GhostSixFour]

We stopped using it when we kept forgetting to switch the damn thing off when we gave him bottle at night. Then the alarm screams and we struggle to get him back to sleep. So roughly 1 month....

 

[Geoff.D]

We stopped using it when we kept forgetting to switch the damn thing off when we gave him bottle at night. Then the alarm screams and we struggle to get him back to sleep. So roughly 1 month....

We did not go through that feed every 4 hours crap either. We fed on demand. Chuck all those damn books away. Nature can't read and neither can babies. Never had any issues.

 

[GhostSixFour]

We did not go through that feed every 4 hours crap either. We fed on demand. Chuck all those damn books away. Nature can't read and neither can babies. Never had any issues.

Ours spent sometime in NICU, so that was his routine. Also, wife breastfed, so she had to either feed or pump..