> your baby is left crying unattended for a long time.
How is it possible?
Are people leaving babies in far away corners of the house and walk outside with baby left alone?
For me baby monitor is to inform me sooner when baby is starting to cry so I can comfort it faster and make it sleep again.
I have never ever been 100% dependent on baby monitors. I will always eventual hear when my baby is crying, I do it right now (I don't use baby monitors anymore because they were useless and loud and didn't have visual feedbacks).
If your partner isn't at home, and you're doing laundry in the basement while the baby sleeps on the 2nd floor, you definitely need it.
Also we let the babies sleep outside, it is a tradition around here [1]. Then you need a baby monitor.
And when our first kid got to the age where she slept fairly reliably (close to a year), we did go over to visit friends next door. The baby monitor was still in range there, basically twenty seconds to walk from door to door. But I'll concede that it's fairly unusual to have good friends living that close.
How is it possible? Are people leaving babies in far away corners of the house and walk outside with baby left alone? For me baby monitor is to inform me sooner when baby is starting to cry so I can comfort it faster and make it sleep again.
I have never ever been 100% dependent on baby monitors. I will always eventual hear when my baby is crying, I do it right now (I don't use baby monitors anymore because they were useless and loud and didn't have visual feedbacks).