[blparent] baby monitor

[Elizabeth Cooks]

It's not for two-way communication.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pickrell, Rebecca M (IS)" <REBECCA.PICKRELL at ngc.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 12:47 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] baby monitor


> Yes. You'll hear the baby cry, cough everything. Note, though that it
> does not transmit human speech, and it isn't designed to. You'll hear
> what your kid is doing and you'll have to figure out what if anything to
> do about it. I like my monitor as if it isn't on for whatever reason, I
> am always thinking I'm hearing my kid. The wind could howl, and I'll
> think it's my daughter, the dishwasher could beep and my head will make
> me think it's my kid, the cat we don't have can meow and I'll think it's
> my daughter. Being able to localize the sound source via the monitor
> gives mea healthy reality check. Once you see a monitor work, you'll
> instantly understand.
> Know that they also make video monitors which will show the baby on a
> screen. We don't have one, though again, if you've got a sighted partner
> who needs/wants that piece of mind, then get it.
> The stuff you buy for a baby has a lot to do with emotional and physical
> comfort for mom and dad, and we all approach this differently.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On Behalf Of Leslie Hamric
> Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 2:42 PM
> To: 'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [blparent] baby monitor
>
> Do you actually hear the sound of the baby'c rrying through the
> receiver?
> Is it like a little speaker?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On
> Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
> Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 11:03 AM
> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] baby monitor
>
> I think mine is Fisher Price as well.  I keep one receiver on my desk
> downstairs and one beside my bed upstairs.  You can shell out a lot of
> money
>
> for expensive monitors, but sound quality is really all that matters.  I
> do
> recommend that you get one with at least a couple of channels you can
> change
>
> to, so that if one channel isn't coming in clearly, you can try another.
>
> Jo Elizabeth
>
> Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always
> glorify
> the hunters.--African Proverb
>
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> From: "Leanne Merren" <leemer02 at gmail.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 10:49 PM
> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [blparent] baby monitor
>
>> I just have a fisher price monitor with 2 receivers.  It has good
>> reception and sound quality, and that's all I cared about.  I keep one
>
>> receiver in our bedroom and one out in the kitchen area.  I bought it
> at
>> toys r us.
>> HTH,
>> Leanne
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Leslie Hamric" <lhamric930 at comcast.net>
>> To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 3:11 PM
>> Subject: [blparent] baby monitor
>>
>>
>>> Hi all. Does anyone have any recommendations on what kind of a baby
>>> monitor
>>> to get?  Some have receivers that vibrate when sound is picked up,
> others
>>> don't. Thanks.
>>>
>>> Leslie
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