Nanit

TLDR:must have for every parent, easy to travel with and gives such peace of mind. Only thing to consider is it does require a secure wifi connection. Absolutely love this camera! Have even purchased a second camera as I am now a mother of 2 under 2 and let me tell you the peace of mind I have with this monitor is unmatched! I love the having the insights especially with my first child because I was reassured that I could see my baby even while at work during his naps or when he and his dad are playing in the room. Because let’s be honest maternity leave in the US is a joke. In addition to being able to have peace of mind the sleep insights really aided us when sleep training our baby and not feeling like we were traumatizing him because we could clearly see that within one minute he would stop crying and start self soothing or playing with his stuffy with intermittent “whining” to see if one of us would come in. Bear in mind sleep training was not done until 1 year old when he had object permanence clearly mastered and a secure attachment to both my husband and I. Naps took a little longer to master. Purchased the stand and travel case as well! Love having it when in hotel rooms and airbnbs. Some hotel rooms however the wifi was not secure so nanit would not work. Small downside but still worth it in my opinion. Hope this helps. Plan on using until kids are in their preteens or simply transitioning it to a living room camera.

My husband and I fell in love with this product just reading about it, but now that we’ve been using it a couple of weeks, we love it even more. Our daughter started sleeping in her crib the first night we came home from the hospital. We keep our Fire 8 Plus in our room on loud with the app running in the background so we don’t burn the battery on our phones at night. There is barely a second of delay. When our daughter cries you hear her first and then an echo through the app. The key is getting the band situated correctly each night. We were using the band in the beginning and swaddling her (which you’re not supposed to do). We got a red alert on the second night (the most terrifying noise to wake up to). Our daughter was fine and breathing but the layers from the swaddle and band must have made the reading difficult. I will say the red alert will give you some false alarms which I would rather have happen than not. However, all in all we’ve really enjoyed watching the nightly summaries that are produced the following morning to see how many times our daughter woke up, for how long, and how long it took us to get back to sleep after a feeding. Additionally, we love that you can turn the camera off when it’s not in use so we keep ours turned off during the day. Last, but not least, when the time comes that we need to travel to visit family, I love that we can take the camera with us and utilize the stand for traveling. Such a great feature!

Very easy to use and I love that I can get alerts on my Apple Watch to bypass the sleep “do not disturb”so I know I’ll always be able to know when my baby needs me, but I don’t need to wake up for any other phone notifications. We always used the breathing bands when he was little but now that he’s a little older I don’t monitor his sleep so closely. The insights are great! And I loved being able to know when he’s in a deep sleep and when he wakes up, so I can keep a better eye on his “wake windows” and make sure he’s getting all the rest he needs so he’s a happier baby and I’m a happy momma :) my only issue is with the Alexa Echo Show, it never works right :/ and even when it does work it turns itself off so you can use it as an all night monitor if you like to sleep with the monitor display on. But it works well to just have the monitor video on my iPad and keep it on night mode. I also love the “background audio” mode, so I can get other things done on my phone but still hear him if he needs me and switch back to the Nanit app to check on him if I hear him. The only other problem I have is that we travel A LOT and when we go to family or friends house and we are using the multi stand, it works perfect, but at hotels it doesn’t work with the Wi-Fi. We only stay at marriotts so maybe it’s different at other hotels, but we ended up needing a non-Wi-Fi Monitor for when we travel and stay at hotels. Over all I highly highly recommend, we’ve been using our Nanit for almost 2 years and we absolutely love it!!