A Little Bit About a Lot of Things

Disclaimer: This is a sponsored post. I partnered with Safety 1st to review their new HD Wifi baby monitor. All opinions are my own.

People have said to me that going from one child to two is much harder than two children to three. They were wrong. We have gone from man to man coverage to zone defense, and during the day, I am completely out numbered.

Remember when you were 20? You could drink yourself silly and then bounce back like nothing happened the next day. But then when you hit 30, you no longer had that super power and your hangover the next day felt like you were on your deathbed. Yeah, that’s kind of what having your third child feels like. It hasn’t been that long that I’ve been out of the ‘baby’ phase, but it apparently has been long enough – because those 3am wake up calls are PAINFUL.

If the celebration for your first child is a shower, and the second is a sprinkle, what do you call the party for the third? A trickle? By baby #3, I was certainly not expecting anything, but I moved into this amazing neighborhood and the ladies threw me (well, baby #3) a fabulous party. We are incredibly fortunate to have so many wonderful people supporting us – baby #3 was loved so much even before he entered the world!

With hand me downs from my two other kids, I wasn’t really expecting to have to get anything new for baby #3. We were, however, going to need another monitor. I have the Summer dual screen video monitor for my other two. I don’t love it (I had to replace the base unit already), and with all the new options out there, I was looking into a wifi monitor this time around. The Summer monitor base unit is larger than my cell phone and doesn’t hold the charge for very long – with the video on the whole time it won’t even last the whole nap time. It also doesn’t have a good range, which limits where I can be during nap time.

Enter the Safety 1st baby monitor. It was super easy to set up, and has a wide angle so I can see the whole room without needing to tilt or pan the camera. It has 12 infrared LEDs which makes it easy to see your baby at night – with my Summer monitor, sometimes it’s hard to tell where the kids are in their beds. The app that allows you to see your baby from your cell phone is easy to use and set up. You can receive noise and motion alerts, grant temporary access to caregivers, talk to you baby with two way talk back and share cute moments with family and friends.

The piece on the right is a hands free smart audio unit that can let you know when your baby moves or cries. Use it in the house when you’re not near your phone (yes, there are moments when I’m not near my phone). Pretty cool right?

Now that we have the monitor set up, all we have to do is teach this new little baby how to sleep through the night!

Tags: kids, sponsored