How many new parents among us have tiptoed into baby’s room to ensure he or she was breathing in the middle of the night? Designed to lighten the mental load of overwhelmed new parents, the Snuza Pico ($109) is a small device that monitors baby’s breathing and streams all the data...
This The Netatmo Healthy Home Coach is a baby monitor of a different stripe. It doesn’t actually watch or monitor baby, but monitors baby’s room (or any other room) for sound, humidity, and air quality. The Healthy Home Coach is marketed to all families but has a special value for parents...
The WiFi Baby 4 is the second wireless camera we’ve used as a monitor for our nursery. The first was Dropcam, which overall my husband and I liked, but thought there was room for improvement. In terms of setup, the process is fairly easy but a little time consuming. The...
Lorex BB2411 2.4-Inch Sweet Peek Video Baby Monitor with IR Night Vision and Zoom $169.99 (but under $100 at Amazon) The Lorex Baby Sweet Peek monitor is a basic monitor entry in comparison to their other WIFI and networked security monitors. It has the simple functions you would expect from...
Mobi Secure Start MSRP: $149.99 2.0” high res color screen; night vision; 2-way audio; 400’ range getmobi.com The Secure Start has a lot of the basic features you will be looking for in a baby monitor: two- way talk, high res screen and night vision at a lower cost. However,...
I will be the first to admit that I’ve been skeptical of baby monitors. Are they truly helpful or just one more thing to feed into parental paranoia? However, when I heard about Knit Health, I was curious. Personally knowing the founders (all fathers themselves) and their talents both in...
For parents who prefer an audio monitor, Summer Infant’s Babble Band Wearable Audio Baby Monitor is a great hands-free, wearable option with exceptional sound quality. I’m using it as a second monitor (more on that below) when I don’t want to lug around the video monitor from room to room....
One of the most nerve-wracking moments for a new parent can be the simple act of taking your baby for a drive in the car. This is one of the few moments when you don’t have a direct line of sight to your child, and you’re powerless to reach for...
My husband and I live in a loft so when it came time to think about getting a baby monitor for our little one, our first question was, ”do we even need one?” We definitely didn’t need one of those traditional two-piece monitors since clearly, we can hear the baby...
MobiCam Digital DXR MSRP: $229.99 3.5” color screen; night vision; 2-way audio; 450’ range; remote viewing via SKYPE and others getmobi.com Mobi makes the more geeky entries in this category with all the bells and whistles of the Withings and Peek Plus, but at a lower price. With the DXR,...