B?b?sounds Angelcare Deluxe Movement Sensor with Sound Monitor
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Baby Products Reviews of B?b?sounds Angelcare Deluxe Movement Sensor with Sound Monitor
Customer Review: Well designed and high quality -- highly recommended
Summary: 5 Stars
We bought this monitor for our newborn. My first impression was that the components are all very well made. They're very sturdy, and the displays are very clear and easy to read. The range is also very good. I'd heard that these movement sensor monitors can be a bit finicky in that they occasionally won't detect the baby's movement and then will scare both the baby and the parents. I haven't encountered that problem with this monitor however, and in fact, the monitor seems to be very accurate at detecting when there is even the slightest movement in the crib.
The overall design is also very intelligent. Each parent unit has its own charger, so you can keep them in different parts of the house (eg: family room and bedroom). The parent units can also warn you when they are out of range, rather than just going silent like many other baby monitors will. The parent units also use standard NiMH AA batteries, so if you forget to leave one in the charging cradle you can swap out the batteries. (Just be carful not to use non-rechargables and then put it back in the charging cradle!) The system is also very configurable (though this aspect is a little complicated).
My only complaint is that I wish there was an easy way to silence the parent units when removing the baby from the crib. If the movement sensor is enabled and the baby is removed from the crib for more than 20 seconds the movement alarm will sound. You can avoid this by completely turning off the base station, but then the parent units will complain that the base station is "out of range" unless you also turn them off. It would be nice if the base station could instead tell the parent units to go into some sort of "standby mode" so we wouldn't have to coordinate turning the parent units on and off with the base station.
Other than that one minor gripe, I'd highly recommend this product, especially for very young babies as the movement sensor can give a lot of peace of mind.
Customer Review: This monitor is Great
Summary: 5 Stars
My husband and I bought this for our daughter because our grand daughter was born 9 1/4 weeks early and we knew that our daughter would be afraid to sleep when the baby came home. This monitor has worked wonderfully. It not only monitors for breathing and movement but it also tells the temperature in the bassinet, plus even though you cannot hear the baby breathing the parent monitor has a signal on it that shows the baby moving or breathing. I would highly recommend this monitor to anyone even people with healthy babies. The cost is not much higher than a regular monitor that works well and to us the cost was minor to the peace of mind this gives our daughter and her husband.Customer Review: A good night sleep
Summary: 5 Stars
B?b?Sounds Angelcare Movement Sensor w. Sound Monitor w. Two Parents' Units
Well worth the price - an excellent tool for helping my husband and I sleep better with our baby in his crib in his own room. We strongly recommend.
Customer Review: useful but flawed
Summary: 3 Stars
Well, we just bought this device for our new baby. The alarm part does work fine. But, there are a few serious flaws. The most important one, as many others have pointed out both with this model and the previous model, is that there is no other way to silence the transmitter alarm other than powering it off. I simply cannot believe the engineers (hopefully they are also parents) don't think this is a very useful feature while they added so many others. I'd think it would be nice to at least have the option to to turn off the sensor alarm once the receiver side alarm is turned off so that the baby and the parents won't be startled in the middle of the night longer than necessary. The tempearture reading is also way off. The display temperature is almost 5 degree lower compared to a good quality, dedicated thermometer. Several other features listed in the manual are either incorrect or broken. This is a cute, but overpriced device that leaves much to be desired. Only if they would listen to many customer desires, this could be a much more statisfying monitor than it is now. Customer Review: Great even if the alarm never sounds
Summary: 5 Stars
Originally I registered for a sound monitor. I figured that would be a sufficient way to keep track of the baby while he was asleep and let me know when he was awake. About a month into motherhood (our son is now 5 months old), our concerns and fears about SIDS grew, and with research we found this monitoring system. We had already been doing everything else to try to keep our son safe -- sleep sacks, "back to sleep", keeping soft objects and bedding out of his crib, and a breathable bumper.
For us it was simple to install -- it fit under his mattress in the bassinet and after placing a piece of plywood between the springs of his convertible crib and the crib mattress, it fits in the crib as well. We did not have to make any adjustments to the sensitivity of the movement sensor. I am amazed that the sensor picks up even the slightest movement when our baby is in a deep sleep and his only movement is his breathing.
The displayed information on the actual receiver is very helpful and includes information that it never occurred to me I would want to have, like room temperature, and indicator that lets you know the movement sensor is picking up signals. The sound from the receiver is clear and the volume is easy to set. I can even hear dogs that are barking outside through the transmitter. Depending on how close the receiver is to the transmitter, there can be some feedback.
Other features I like: the night light on the transmitter. It glows a gentle green that illuminates the immediate area enough to see a little. I also like that the receivers are rechargeable and the unit comes with two chargers -- one for each receiver.
When reading parenting guides, many of them talk about SIDS but say that getting a SIDS monitoring system is expensive and they don't recommend it. I beg to differ. Although $130 is not cheap, it was only twice the cost of the original monitor that I registered for. The peace of mind that we purchased with this is so much more valuable. When I wake in the middle of the night, I look over to the receiver and I can see the little pendulum swinging -- knowing that the sensor is detecting my baby's movement. I don't feel the need to go running into the room to see if he is still breathing. I still do spend a lot of time simply watching him sleep, but then many new parents do.
This review is incomplete because thankfully we have not had our alarm go off (except when we have forgotten to turn it off before lifting the baby out of the crib). I can say that the alarm is quite loud and should be enough to startle a baby or bring a parent running.
I hope that I never really have to use all of the functions of this baby monitor and movement sensor, but I am so glad that we have it just in case.