 Monitor designed to wake your baby and drive you mad |
| Review Date: February 24, 2010 |
| Reviewer: JoW, Cirencester, UK |
Had to post a review today after another night of being woken up by this monitor. Bought one about 3 years ago, which broke and then was replaced. The new one is no better:
1) Beeps loudly when you put the handset in the cradle (which wakes me when my husband comes to bed)
2) Connection between the parent unit and cradle dodgy, so unless you wiggle it to make sure it's connected, it starts beeping at 4:30am that it's running out of battery
3) Seems to beep loudly either once or about 6 times when you take the handset off the cradle for no apparent reason. Only started doing this in the last 4 months or so.
4) Random interference means that it hisses loudly as I take it past my son's bedroom as he's trying to settle to sleep. Also means that we have to move it around the lounge floor until we can find somewhere that the hiss isn't louder than the telly. (No amount of changing channel fixes this either.)
In summary I would think that 2 cups either end of a piece of string would be more satisfactory. |
Not Impressed
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| Review Date: December 15, 2009 |
| Reviewer: K. Stone, |
| We bought this monitor before our baby was born based on the fact that it's the one you see everywhere so assumed it must be one of the best. We have been very disappointed with it for a number of reasons. 1. Bad interferance, it sounds like a plane taking off or a police siren! 2. The 2 units constantly loose connection with each other and so turn off. Not really what you want in the middle of the night but.....3. You end up turning it off in the night anyway so the interference stops waking you up. 4. The battery doesn't last through the night. I could go on but on the plus side, the night light is good! |
Not that good
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| Review Date: September 16, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Catherine Garden, Malaga, Spain |
| This baby monitor has interference and sometimes does not pick up my baby crying even though it shows the temperature in the room, I would not recommend it and am away to buy a replacement after only 9 weeks of using it. |
Almost perfect!
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| Review Date: September 9, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Derek Griffiths, |
| Only been using this monitor for a week, but so far so good! The only negative thing I can say about it (hence the loss of a rating star), in common with one or two other reviews here, is that the temperature reading isn't accurate. It's consistently about 3 degrees higher than the actual temperature. This feature was never a deal clincher for us, but is still a tad annoying. The rechargeable nature of the parent unit is a real godsend and more than makes up for this. Overall a good purchase. |
A waste of money
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| Review Date: July 31, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Henry's Mummy, London, England |
| I bought this unit before my baby was born because, on paper, it fulfilled all the criteria I felt were necessary for a baby monitor (outlined in the Contented Little Baby Book - and that is another review entirely!). The unit worked ok, but not great for the first few weeks (when our baby was rarely more than a few feet away from us anyway) although there was a fair amount of background static to contend with - this was whether we were at home, in London, in the Hertfordshire countryside or in Cambridge with the grandparents. After the first few weeks the "background" static noise got worse and worse and I couldn't trust the unit to pick up noise from the baby at all. Turning the volume up or down, changing frequencies etc. had no obvious positive impact on the static noise. In the end, I gave up and found that I was far more likely to hear the baby with the unit turned off. Maybe I just got a duff one but I would strongly recommend that if you are looking for a baby monitor you can really trust (and one that doesn't emit a permanent, annoying noise) that you buy an alternative product. |
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