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[glishara]

I do not like my baby monitor. I need a new one.

Flaws with this one:
1) It transmits low-pitched sounds better than high. This means we hear a lot of static and quiet baby grunts if we want it loud enough to hear him crying. It also means it is very hard for us to test volume, since our voices are clearly audible through it when his cries are still impossible to hear.

2) Its on/off control is the same as its volume control. This means you cannot turn it of without screwing up its carefully calibrated volume setting. Since it takes several tries to put Wesley down (each of which except the last involve crying) this means that either one of us cannot immediately go back to bed after the other goes to deal with him or we will surely screw up volume calibration.

3) The volume knob has nothing to indicate how loud it is. No number, no ticks, nothing. Just a little wheel you turn some random distance and, I suppose, guess how loud it is.


Other things I need:
- A nightlight
- A Halloween costume
- More baby toys
- More medium-sized baby clothes (he's almost outgrown smalls!)


This Mommy thing is complicated.

PS: Many thanks to those who recommended fenugreek. It has been a great help.

Comments

[bluekitsune.livejournal.com]

Maybe in the interim put a little dot of fingernail polish on the dial and the side of the monitor next to the dial when you have the volume adjusted where it seems most optimal? It might help a little to have some frame of reference...

[glishara.livejournal.com]

Huh. I might try that... I think I'm going to try and buy a new one this weekend, though, so hopefully I won't need it long. It's tough, though, because the level of volume we need depends on whether we have the AC on or a fan or something else making noise in our room. For a day or two, though, that should help. Thanks! :)

[mereilin.livejournal.com]

You might also try unplugging it rather than turning it off. I could look and see if our monitors are still knocking around. One or the other of them might be an improvement over the one you're currently using, and it's not as if we need them anymore...

[glishara.livejournal.com]

That's actually what we've been doing. It works all right, but makes it impossible to manage the slipping into and out of the room with the lights off. The real problem is that we're just now transitioning to the baby monitor, so we're fairly hyper-sensitive.

Before tonight, our method was to keep him in a bassinet in the living room. One of us would "sleep" with him until 3-4AM while the other slept in the bedroom, and then we'd trade off. And tonight we're back to trying to use this flawed monitor that was driving us crazy 3 weeks ago. And it's still driving us crazy. ;)