A recent innovation - these monitors let you see and hear your baby. This gives obvious added benefits such as seeing if

your baby has come out of their blanket, or if they are sleeping in an awkward position etc. However, these baby monitor

may also be useful for older children so you can remotely check on them if they are playing by themselves in another room. The range of audio/visual baby monitors can be limited by your house layout. If your house has normal partition (or stud)

walls then range will be around quoted 30m. However, if you live in an old house with solid internal walls

range will be reduced - especially if signal has to pass through several walls. This will not apply when you are

directly below or above a nursery as signal only has to pass through a wooden floor (or floors) and should therefore be

perfect.

AudioVisual Baby Monitors - Things to look for:

•Night vision - sounds obvious but some come without it! This is essential for night time viewing. All our

audiovisual baby monitors come with night vision. •Number of channels - helps in finding best channel but can also enable you to add extra cameras later. •Standby mode - if you have a portable parent unit screen can be draining on battery. Some units such as

Tranwo Gigaair automatically come out of standby

mode if you baby makes a noise.

Sensor Baby Monitors

Also called respiratory baby monitors these monitors consist of sensitive pads that go underneath your baby's mattress.

During first year of life, infants can experience irregular breathing patterns or even stop breathing completely. These monitors can alert when your baby's breathing changes due to a cold, high fever, or other illness. The href="http://www.MonitorMyBaby.co.uk/Products/babysense.html" rel="nofollow">Babysense II will continually detect your baby's motion

and breathing movements, and set off a sound and visual alarm if breathing movements ceases for over 20 seconds or if

breathing rate slows to below 10 breaths per minute.

REMEMBER, a sensor baby monitor is an added precaution and safeguard which can help peace of mind but it must be combined

with important recommendations of "Safe Sleeping" (sleeping on back, not overheating of baby's room, not smoking

around baby).

Sensor Baby Monitors - things to look for

•Certifications - Babysense II is currently

the only Household Movement Monitor to carry complete CE registration as a Medical Device and to comply with 93/42/EEC

Medical device Directive. •Mattress type - some sensor baby monitors will not work properly with a spring mattress •Mattress thickness - check your mattress thickness. Some are certified for thicknesses up to 12cm and some for

thicknesses up to 14cm. •Mattress base - sensor monitors work best on a flat base. This should be no problem with a cot, however, if used in

a Moses basket you are advised to put basket on a flat base.