Suggestions for new Parents: Monitor and Thermometer for Baby

Philips Digital Baby Monitor

This monitor may cost more, but it definitely makes up for it in the reassurance one feels when you have to leave your baby alone in a room. This monitor can play 5 lullabies, has a night light on the base and lets you know the temperature in the room and alerts you with an alarm when it is too cold or too warm. One can set the sensitivity of the microphone and change the volume. There is also a battery indicator to let you know how much time you have left before it needs to be placed back on the charger. The charge supposedly allows for 8 hours of monitoring, but I think that is pushing it a bit; 6 hours is more like it. It is long enough for naps, which is what I use it for. It will also alert you when the monitor is not linked with base. Philips’ new DECT (Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunication) technology guarantees a crystal clear connection with zero interference between the baby’s monitor and the parent unit and finds an unused channel so you are the only one listening to your baby. It has a range of about 900 feet. I can go outside and garden around the house and be confident that I will hear my baby.

Braun Thermoscan Ear Thermometer

This is a great thermometer for baby because it only takes a couple of seconds to determine the body temperature in the ear. It is accurate if taken correctly since it takes the temperature of the eardrum which shares the blood supply with the temperature control center of the brain. Therefore, temperature changes are reflected sooner in the ear than on the skin, in the mouth or in the rectum. It is easy to clean with the lens filters and can not be inserted to far into the ear canal because of its shape.

 

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