Using two baby monitors at the same time?

[MommyKC]

Hey ladies...
For those of you with two (or more) young children, how do you use two baby monitors (if you do) together? My oldest is just turning 2 years old tomorrow and I'm not ready to give up the monitor in her room as she does still wake up occasionally at night and I want to hear her... and I've just had a baby nearly 3 weeks ago and obviously need a monitor for her.
Using both of them together creates alot of static and feedback, and it drives me nuts. Now they are different brands (and I can no longer get the same one my oldest daughter uses as they no longer make them) but has anyone managed to get two of them to work together without interfering with eachother???
Would buying two of the same brand work? And just putting them on different channels?

Any help is greatly appreciated!

 

[Scally]

I havent got two children, but live in a flat, and upstairs have the same monitor as us, and we cant use it at home at all, it just doesnt work. But when we use it when we go away its fine x

 

[MommyKC]

Hmmm that sucks. Right now my older daughter is napping again without the monitor and I hate it! I hate not being able to hear her. I wish there was something I could do.

 

[Scally]

it might be worth asking in mothercare or something, maybe someone would know which ones could work together x

 

[lanaross]

hun she's two, if something is really wrong, she'd let you know I stopped using the monitor about a month ago and I am glad I did. I don't spend hours watching Bella turning in her sleep and getting worried that she woke up etc. etc. If they really cry, you'd hear it (unless you live in a huge huge huge mansion

 

[rach321]

I've got a 2 yr old and a newborn both using monitors. We have angelcare ones, one is sound only the other is sound and movement for the little one. We have them set to different channels and havent had any probs with interference or static.

 

[_Vicky_]

I have two - tommee tippee sounds and movement ones - with the movement mat. Just put them on differnet channels and its fine. We have never had issues with ours and the monitors are right next to each other. HTH xx

 

[mumandco]

I just use one monitor and put in outside on the hall it picks up whoever is crying and I can distinguish the cry but tbh I hardly use it as lo never sleeps upstairs unless I am and if ds1 cries there us no need for a monitor he's so loud

 

[MommyKC]

Thanks ladies... I know I don't really need one for my first daughter, I just like using it. I'm so used to hearing her all the time, it feels weird not to. And I'm always worried I won't wake up at night IF she does cry, because I'm so exhausted right now getting up with my newborn all the time.
But, it may be time to move on and stop using the monitor with her... even if I don't want to just yet!

 

[Kate1s1]

I use Annie Baby monitor app for iOS and I watch my two kids simultaneously without any interference. You can watch up to 4 kids at the same time with this app. And you can watch them from more than one parent unit, that means my husband or my sister can watch them from their phones too.

 

[Perplexed]

I'm thinking of moving each child into their own room soon and was planning to use 2 monitors too...my dd is almost 2 as well but I need to know if she wakes up as she still doesn't want to be in her own room/in her own bed so it'll take a lot of adjustment. will keep checking to see if others have had success with any video monitors.

 

[Button#]

I have an angelcare for my DS and a Motorola for DD and don't have any problems with interference. I still use one for DS as my OH has taken over night duty and doesn't hear him as well as I did.

 

[d_b]

I use a video monitor with two cameras, but one camera has stopped working so we rely on DS1 coming to get us if his brother is awake (they share a room). We haven't used the monitor in ages though as we can hear the kids and baby throughout the house anyway.

 

[Zephram]

I have to agree with PP - she's 2, she'll be fine without a monitor. Unless your house is so gigantic you wouldn't hear a wake up, I'd just put the monitor away for your eldest. We haven't used a monitor with our eldest since he went in a big bed at 19 months. He just yells out or comes and gets us when he wakes up. We always hear him.

 

[sil]

I use an infant optics monitor. This monitor can have 2 separate cameras attached to the same monitor, and then the monitor will switch back and forth between the 2 rooms every 3-4 seconds or so so I don't miss anyone's cry. If you prefer or if only one kid is napping, you can change it to just stay on one room.

 

[Indi84]

I don't know how it works because dh set it up, but I have a camera on ds and then I can check on him through my smart phone. It has sound too, but I'd have to open the app to hear it. He's three but it's really useful to see if he has fallen asleep etc.

 

[k4th]

We have two avent ones. No interference - no problems. I don't set the bands myself they just work!

(& yes I still have a monitor for my four year old - it's so I can reply to her without going upstairs which always results in one more kiss/cuddle/book from the shelf etc etc).