Baby Monitors Radiation, Parenting Gurus

dame

What do you folks think of this? Is it just another scare from people who are opposed to mobile phones, masts, microwaves etc.?

http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/parenting/radiation-from-baby-monitors-poses-risk-680514.html


Personally we've never used a baby monitor. I don't think there's any need unless you live in a mansion with the baby off in a different wing. Plus, until baby was seven months old she slept in a cot in the sittingroom until we were going to bed ourselves.

The advice is that monitors should be placed at least ten feet away from infants? Do people keep theirs that far away? Can you still hear anything at that distance? Does the monitor still fit inside the room while it's ten feet away from the cot? Is having a baby monitor any safer than just checking the baby in their cot regularly?


Here's another article from today's paper. I think it's interesting.

http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/parenting/tyranny-of-the-child-gurus-you-dont-have-to-be-a-paranoid-parent-681080.html

The Hill Billy

I read the first article yesterday & while somewhat concerned, if I were to have the monitor 10' away from my baby's cot - either the baby or the monitor would be outside the house & have to hover 14' above the front garden.

As for the second article I got as far as "sacrilisation of bonding" and "intensification of fatherhood" & moved on. More book-selling, money-spinning, self-publicising bullshìt IMO.

Wishbone Ash

dame wrote:

What do you folks think of this? Is it just another scare from people who are opposed to mobile phones, masts, microwaves etc.?

I'd be more concerned with the fact that transmissions from a baby monitor can be picked up with any cheap scanner!

Davidth88

Hi,

Used a baby monitor since my daughter moved into own room .....

Have the monitor the other side of the room ( about 6-7 ft ), the microphones are sensitive enough to pick her breathing up even from there.

I assume this is coming off the WIFI debate thats raging in the UK at the moment , baby monitors use the same wavebands ( the 2Ghz range ). I figure it's very low power and it's not next to her head ....... I wouldn't have it next to her head , that's common sense ( like mobile phones or anything like that )

Ill be honest , the monitor is just a ' crutch ' , if she cries we can hear her anyway, it's useful if you want to go into the garden though.

Wishbone Ash...... What's your concern ? If some wierdo wants to listen in to a baby breathing / crying , yes thats wierd but ??? The thought hadn't even crossed my mind !

Anyway , Eastenders ( and other soaps ) would lose half their story lines without baby monitors picking up people confessing about affairs etc

nesf

Davidth88 wrote:

Anyway , Eastenders ( and other soaps ) would lose half their story lines without baby monitors picking up people confessing about affairs etc

*picks up son*

Oh, your mommy would be so angry if she found out about daddy's other women. But since you're only 10 months I can tell you all my secrets.


*camera pans slowly to baby monitor*
*cut scene to nextdoor neighbour's scandalised face with scanner held next to ear*

*cue credits and music*

dame

Actually, it's not just Eastenders.....I've heard of people who are into CB radios and the like, who have scanners and drive around parking outside houses listening to whatever's going on inside. Mind you, I can't see the attraction myself; "Will I stick the kettel on?", "All right", "What time should we head to that place tomorrow?", "How was the office?", "Little Joshua needs new shoes". I'd say they get some fascinating tidbits.

Davidth88

Or in my little one's case all they would hear ( I hope ) would be a soft breathing , and the occasional ( every 45 mins ) turning over in the cot followed possibly by a musical toy playing softly for a min and her telling her teddy a story.

Wierd what people are into.