Choosing the right monitor for you and your baby

Getting your baby to sleep is only half the battle! Once they’re asleep most parents still have concerns that can keep them up at night.

However, most of these concerns can be addressed simply by investing in the right monitor for your family. In fact a third of parents see having a monitor they trust as ‘absolutely critical’ to getting a good night’s sleep.

At Tomy, we’re very proud of our multi-award winning monitors – the UK’s favourite range. Each monitor has been intensively researched and tested to provide the very highest standards of safety and a host of innovative features from guaranteed privacy and two-way talk back to remotely controlled night lights, vibration alert and last feed timer, that really do make parenting easier.

When choosing your monitor ask yourself a few questions first about your priorities, where you live and your lifestyle and this, together with the Tomy Monitor table, should help you find your ideal monitor:

• Do you want to ensure that no-one else can listen in to your monitor? Unique to Tomy Walkabout monitors, privacy is guaranteed thanks to an inbuilt scrambling device and 65,000 unique combinations in the Walkabout Baby Advance, Classic Advance and Premier Advance and an auto channel hopping selection function and digital audio in the Walkabout Platinum Digital. Guaranteed privacy means that the sounds your baby makes cannot be picked up by any other monitor in the area.
• Will you be spending time out of the house in the garden? If so consider a portable monitor with a longer range for flexible, portable monitoring. Also consider having a monitor with a vibration alert which is great for noisy environments such as when mowing the lawn.
• Will your baby be sleeping in their own nursery? If so you might want to invest in a monitor with a two-way talk back facility which is handy for when your baby only needs a word of reassurance from afar. Also consider a monitor with a night light on the baby unit to give a comforting glow in the dark to reassure your baby.
• Are you concerned that you might disturb your baby when entering the nursery? If so you might want to consider a monitor with a night light on the baby unit so there is no need to disturb your baby using the main light in the nursery.
• Are you concerned that you might forget when the next feed is due during the night? In order to reduce uncertainty about when the next feed is due, the innovative last feed timer on our top of the range Walkabout Platinum Digital Monitor will keep track for you.
• Are you concerned that the temperature of your nursery might not be ideal? In order to keep the nursery at the ideal temperature you might want to consider a monitor with an in-built temperature display enabling you to continuously monitor the temperature of your baby’s room. If you’re concerned about temperature variances overnight in the nursery you might want to consider the Walkabout Platinum Digital which records the maximum and Minimum temperature the nursery got to during the night.
• Do you want to be able to judge the intensity of your babies sound when not in the nursery? If so consider a monitor with a sound-sensitive light display which is a display of moving lights which echo the level of your baby’s sounds meaning you can stay alert to your baby’s needs even with the sound turned down and can also judge when you want to react to your baby’s sounds.
• Do you have two small children and want to use two monitors at one time? It is possible to use two monitors at one time however, it is not recommended to have two analogue monitors in close proximity as interference between the two monitors could prevent them from working properly. Using 2 DECT monitors in close proximity is fine and both will work normally with no interference.