One of the best pieces of advice for new mothers is to sleep when their babies are sleeping. Resist the urge to do “one more thing” – another load of laundry or another email – and get some rest instead. But in order to get that nap, it’s important to be able to turn off the worry about your little bundle of joy. Here are the baby monitors we recommend.
Sleep highlight reel
This monitor not only lets you see your baby day and night, but it puts together a time-lapse video of your little one sleeping, so you can have some fun watching your little angel. The Nanit app does more than that – it gives you motion notifications and professional suggestions on improving your little bundle’s sleeping habits. The wall-mounted monitor and camera set has an amazing screen. Rather than just hearing and seeing your baby, you can actually speak to your little one with this smart baby monitor. It’s great to still be able to listen to your little one while using other apps on your phone. It even tells you your nursery’s temperature and humidity level.
Buy: Nanit Plus – Smart Baby Monitor and Wall Mount
Great while visiting family
For the family on the go, this is a useful baby or backyard monitor. The long-lasting battery allows this video baby monitor to provide coverage for up to 10 hours in power-saving mode. The lightweight design gives you zoom or a wide-angle lens depending on your needs. Although it uses the internet to send you videos, your privacy is guaranteed, so you never need to worry that someone is checking on your little one besides you. It sends a signal in ideal conditions up to 700 feet.
Buy: Infant Optics DXR-8 Video Baby Monitor
A little bit of everything
This product offers a bundle of features: a nice screen, zoom capabilities, infrared night viewing, and a quality digital camera. The surface-mounted camera has a small but mighty 2.4-inch display, just enough to check on your little one in color during the day. Simply plug it in to charge the Lithium-ion battery. Then at night, the 8 infrared lights provide you with night vision and temperature checks. Under ideal conditions – in a straight, unobstructed line – you can check on your little one from up to 960 feet away, almost ⅕ of a mile!
Buy: ANMEATE Digital 2.4Ghz Wireless Video Monitor with Temperature Monitor
Easy to use
All you really want in a baby monitor is to be alerted when your little one wakes up or is needy, and that’s what this baby monitor provides. You can rest assured that your baby monitor is private, all the way out to 1000 feet – the longest distance of any of our monitors. This audio-only unit comes with a rechargeable battery that powers the unit for eight hours. The belt clip comes in handy when you’re taking the dog out or you’re working in the yard gardening. The units link in under a minute, and then this baby monitor is ready for use. If you prefer seeing to listening, just set the LED lights so you can get visual cues when there’s noise in the nursery.
Buy: Upgraded VTech DM111 Audio Baby Monitor
Cyndi Mathews is a contributing writer to Florida Travel & Life, an online brand that inspires active, affluent travelers, providing them with insider information on discovering the best of Florida. Informative and engaging, the website showcases travel destinations, arts and cultural venues, vibrant dining scenes, recreational activities, the great outdoors and the revitalized real-estate market. Cyndi recently published her first book and enjoys traveling to Florida in her sailboat.
