Posted on 25th May 2011 @ 11:08

It’s always been important to keep close monitors on your baby and we’ve been doing this for years with audio baby monitors. These are perfect for detecting when your child is crying or complaining; all you do is go upstairs (or wherever your child is) to see what the problem is and comfort them accordingly.

However, what happens if you live in a larger house, or you are trying to get on with something, or you’re even in the garden? What then?

Video baby monitors

The latest thing to hit all the major baby superstores is the video baby monitor. These things come in so many shapes and sizes and specs that it becomes awfully hard to keep up with what’s new. But you don’t need to consider what the latest thing is necessarily, what you need is the device that works the best.

How do video baby monitors work?

They basically work from a camera in the baby’s room, and this camera is obviously connected to a monitor where you can view and usually hear your baby when they’re in their room asleep or playing. There are only two fundamental differences when it comes to video baby monitors, and these are: analogue baby video monitors and digital video monitors. The analogue monitors are perfectly acceptable if you don’t travel around your house much, or you’re likely to be spending more time in a particular room; this is because they work via cables and are not mobile.

Digital video baby monitors work by sending digital signals wirelessly in your home so that you can use a monitor that can be taken anywhere, including the garden. Many of these monitors are only tiny in size and not much bigger than a mobile phone.

Talk back baby video monitors

By far one of the greatest innovations however is the video baby monitor that allows the parent to not only monitor what their child is up to, but also talk back to them if they are in any form of distress that would only really warrant some verbal soothing; there is no real need to always run to your child’s room when they are experiencing distress, sometimes they may only need to hear your voice in the night when they’re asleep to relax them.

Overall

The best thing to do is to look at the size of your home and consider whether or not you are likely to be quite mobile whilst you’re in and out all day. If this is the case then you are likely to need a digital handheld baby monitor. If you’re happy to monitor your baby in one room only, perhaps in the evening then opt for an analogue monitor; it’s important to know that if you want to monitor your baby in more than one room with an analogue set up it is possible if you wire in extra monitors.