VTech BM5100-Bear

Absolutely worth buying for any new parent – This monitor has been fantastic, I have an 18 month old but I bought it when she was 2 months old and it was totally worth buying. After having my daughter, I know they suggest you keep the baby in the room with you for the first few months but I could not sleep with her in my room any longer because every little sound my daughter made it would wake me up when I really needed to sleep. After doing research, I had this baby monitor suggested to me because it was perfect for what I needed. The key feature that I love is the ability to filter the sounds the monitor picks up from baby. As any parent would know, some baby monitors just pick up any noise the baby makes. But This baby monitor allows you to control what level of noise you hear through the parents device. So if your baby is just making little noises it doesn’t pick it up but when it gets to a certain level of noise it goes off on the parent device. This made me so relieved when I placed my daughter in her own room, because I had complete control over what noises I heard from her throughout the night.

The other feature I love is the ability to play music or sounds through the baby device in my daughters room. My daughter is a light sleeper so noises wake her up easily but when I play music it helps to create white noise while she sleeps and blocks out any noises going on around the house. You can also choose to have the monitor play the sound of a tv, grasshoppers, waves or a heartbeat.

This device also has multiple other functions that are useful. You can change it to notify you when it gets too hot or cold in baby’s room. As it constantly reads the temperature of the baby’s room and will display the temperature of the room on the monitor. You can change it To vibrate when the monitor picks up noise. It also doesn’t require wifi to connect, which was a big selling point for me as I don’t like baby monitors that require wifi. The night mode on the camera is really good, you can still see Bub clearly and picks up images in the dark pretty well. It gives you the option to add extra cameras to the one parent monitor, I currently only have the one bear camera in my daughters room but it allows you to add more cameras if you have more than one young child you need to keep an eye on. The bear camera can move up and down. And the owl version can scan the room. That comes down to personal preference.

The only thing I don’t like about this monitor is the Battery in the parents monitor Isn’t that great at holding charge. It can’t be off charge for too long or It goes flat pretty quickly.

I paid $190 for the device and it is really worth the price. Would highly recommend to anyone that needs a new baby monitor. Over 12 months later after buying it I’m still using the same monitor and it’s still doing a superb job.