How You Monitor 2 Baby Rooms?

Posted by Angela Brown on May 30th, 2019

When my second child was born, I realize that I needed so many things in double. But I wonder if that means I had to have 2 different baby monitors to watch both of my kids. It had to have a better solution, so I did some research. Here's what I learn about monitoring multiple-rooms.

The best solution for parents who want to monitor 2 baby's room or more is to get a multiple-rooms baby monitor. Parents have the choice between an audio monitor with 2 child units or a multiple cameras video monitor. Before getting one of those monitors, you should consider the following options.

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Use 2 baby monitors for 2 rooms

Your second child is ready to sleep in his own bedroom, and you want to use a baby monitor in this room too.

There's a good chance you already have a baby monitor. But you're planning a monitoring two rooms.

Don't get rid of it right now. Don't get a multiple room baby monitor right now. You can just get another single room monitor and use both to monitor 2 rooms.
Get a second baby monitor

As a matter of fact, many parents are only getting a second baby monitor.

It's not because you can buy a multi-room monitor at the store that you should. Keep your money and keep on using the first baby monitor.

You already have it, and you already know how it works. The range of its signal, etc. And if you have been really satisfying with it, why not get the same brand/model for the second one.
Advantages

There's more advantage than you think of getting a second baby monitor and using 2 baby monitor for 2 rooms.

The first advantage is you don't have to try and test new baby monitors to see if the work correctly in your house. You already use the other one, so you know if it works well (or not).

Secondly, a single room baby monitor is less expensive, in most case, than a multi-room monitor.

Finally, this is an eco-friendly decision. By keeping the old one, you are not throwing away a perfectly working monitor just to get a new shiny one. You can be eco even more eco-responsible buy getting a second-hand monitor. Each year there's too many, still working products, getting thrown away only because they are not shiny anymore.
Interference possibilities

Ok, you get the point, and you want to try only to use a second baby monitor, but you must be aware of the possibilities of interference between the monitors. I must underline the fact that it's a possibility and there's a good chance that interference will not be a problem.

It depends on the type of baby monitor you have.

Let say you have two different audio monitors and turn them on, it could make feedback. If they work on the same channel, you could be picking up the other rooms in your house, and your neighbor's house, and the radio station. This is a widespread problem with audio monitor working in the same range or the same frequencies.

To solve this problem, you could get 2 different models from different brands.
Add an extra child unit

Of course, you could be lucky enough to own a model that you can just add an extra child unit. Many monitors, audio and video, offer the possibility to add a second monitor.

Some baby monitor models even offer to add up to 3 extra child unit so you could monitor 3 rooms.

source: watchfuldad.com/monitor-2-baby-rooms