Q. Ok so i just found out that strangers can see your baby if you have a video monitor!!!! U can change the channels and pick up other babies that are close by! CREEPY!!! There was a big thing about it on the news! They also hear everything! I read somwhere that if you have a DIGITAL video monitor you are safe and other people arnt able to see your baby! Does anyone know if this is true or not about the digital monitors? Id feel much safer having a video monitor on my baby so I can actually see her, but if a stranger can see her too ITS NOT WORTH IT!!!
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As far as I know, as long as it's a closed circuit then you should be fine. So if it's connected with a cable, there's no picture being broadcast and no one but you would be able to see. But if it's a wire-less version someone could look if they have something that would pick up the signal. If I was going to do a video monitor like that I'd actually get a security camera and set it up like that. To me though, there was no reason to have a video monitor. The sound monitor worked fine. :)
Add: Considering the number of burglaries that happened a few years back from people copying the signal from garage door openers and using that to open them and get into the house, I dunno. A video monitor that shows a burglar when I'm with my baby and alone would worry me a bit. *shrugs* But that's just me. I've read the police monitors around here and there have been increases in burglaries that happen when the people are home.
For me, I can tell when my baby is crying and when she's talking or singing. I just listen to her voice.
As far as I know, as long as it's a closed circuit then you should be fine. So if it's connected with a cable, there's no picture being broadcast and no one but you would be able to see. But if it's a wire-less version someone could look if they have something that would pick up the signal. If I was going to do a video monitor like that I'd actually get a security camera and set it up like that. To me though, there was no reason to have a video monitor. The sound monitor worked fine. :)
Add: Considering the number of burglaries that happened a few years back from people copying the signal from garage door openers and using that to open them and get into the house, I dunno. A video monitor that shows a burglar when I'm with my baby and alone would worry me a bit. *shrugs* But that's just me. I've read the police monitors around here and there have been increases in burglaries that happen when the people are home.
For me, I can tell when my baby is crying and when she's talking or singing. I just listen to her voice.
Are plain, old baby monitors adequate?
Mariposa
I'm being a bit proactive and have decided to educate myself on all these baby gadgets. I had a pregnancy that ended in a miscarriage, so even though I was only pregnant a short time, I remember how stressed I was trying to figure out all of this stuff.
So my question is... I thought baby monitors were a dime a dozen. Never knew there were motion sensors, 49 mhz and 900 mhz, video, laptop viewable, etc etc etc. The reviews saying how some mother's felt their babies lives were saved by the motion sensors got me into "paranoid-mommy-to-be" mode. When I was little, everyone had those Graco, lights when the baby makes noise versions. Does anyone find that these are perfectly adequate for their babies, or are the motion sensors/video models really a better choice? Keeping in mind that I'm trying to restrain myself from one day spending thousands of dollars on things a baby will use for a year. :)
Thank you!
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I didn't use one - we live in an apartment, were never going to be that far from the baby, I'm skeptical about gagetry, and I had a sixth sense that alerted me whenever my little one had a hiccup in the next room.
If I'd had a big house I might have gotten a simple monitor, but I think a lot of these things are designed to separate you from your wallet ...and will surely rob you of more sleep than you can afford in general.
Just my $.02 - and I know how it feels to be prenatally paranoid. I'm sure I had plenty of my own issues although this wasn't one of mine. :)
I didn't use one - we live in an apartment, were never going to be that far from the baby, I'm skeptical about gagetry, and I had a sixth sense that alerted me whenever my little one had a hiccup in the next room.
If I'd had a big house I might have gotten a simple monitor, but I think a lot of these things are designed to separate you from your wallet ...and will surely rob you of more sleep than you can afford in general.
Just my $.02 - and I know how it feels to be prenatally paranoid. I'm sure I had plenty of my own issues although this wasn't one of mine. :)
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