please recommend your baby monitor...or tell me what to avoid!

[MommytoEliana]

Our old monitor (I think it was a Fisher-Price) is pretty much dead, and with a two-story house, we really need one for DD2. I'd love to do a video monitor but it seems like people's experiences with them are so iffy, especially since we need something that has a decent range (two-story house plus basement, and I'd like to be able to use it outside as far as a few houses down the block and still get reception). Plus video monitors are SO expensive!

Do you have a monitor that you love (audio or video)? Do you have one that you do _not_ like, and why? We need to make a decision soon. Thanks!

[rolypoly27]

We have this Philips Avent baby monitor and have been very happy with it. There is absolutely no interference or static since it works on DECT technology. We did not find a need for video, temperature sensors, or other extra features.

[theriviera]

nak...

on the recommendation of ms.pacman, we bought these cameras:

http://www.amazon.com/Foscam-FI8918W...5418390&sr=8-2

i posted instructions on how to set up here:

http://windsorpeak.com/vbulletin/sho...5&postcount=11

[MommytoEliana]

Thanks! I do hope to go for the webcam route eventually, so those instructions will be great. I like the looks of the Avent one for a plain audio one; that may be our short-term solution.

[Bootsie]

We have that Phillips Avent DECT basic model too and it has worked really well for us. Anything non-DECT has been subject to a lot of interference and when that happens, the monitors give off this shrieking warning beep that could make you lose your mind.

[lhafer]

We have the cheapy Sony 27 channel one, and have had it since DD1 was a baby...so 5+ years. It still works. I never wanted a video one...never heard good things about them. We've packed ours up and used it on vacations, trips, ILs house, etc. I used to mow the lawn with it attached to me - and turned all the way up, I could hear if she woke up over the mower!!

[TwoBees]

We have this Philips Avent baby monitor and have been very happy with it. There is absolutely no interference or static since it works on DECT technology. We did not find a need for video, temperature sensors, or other extra features.

We have this one also, and have been very happy with it.

[kijip]

We had luck with a Sony BabyCall. No interference, no picking up the neighbors or anything and we live in a townhouse, so I was ready to have to try a few.