Vtech Safe & Sound Full Color Video & Audio Baby Monitor {Review}

Oh the won­ders of tech­nol­ogy! Six years ago, when I was preg­nant with Big Brother, I never even thought about get­ting a video mon­i­tor. Per­haps they were rather new to the mar­ket? Maybe because we were just liv­ing in a small apart­ment? Hon­estly I have no idea. What­ever the case, we just got a nice audio mon­i­tor that worked well for our needs. When Lit­tle Brother was born we wanted a sec­ond mon­i­tor — one for each of their rooms. This time, we did con­sider a video mon­i­tor, but just ended up going with what we knew (the same exact mon­i­tor from before, lol!). And boy were we miss­ing out! The VTech Safe & Sound Full Color and Video Baby Mon­i­tor is amaz­ing! I wish we would have had one for the past 5 years!  The “big boys” moved into the same room about 2 weeks before Baby Brother was born and hav­ing a video mon­i­tor in there has been invalu­able! Being able to see what they’re doing (as it seems like one big slum­ber party in there every night) has helped us know what changes we’ve needed to make and who the cul­prit has been with some “inci­dents”. And, the extra awe­some part?! There is a talk-balk fea­ture in which I can remotely com­mu­ni­cate to the boys from the par­ent unit to the unit in their room. Since Baby Brother has arrived, there have been count­less times where I’m feed­ing baby and instead of hav­ing to yell or go upstairs, I’ve been able to tell them to “get back on your bed” while still feed­ing the baby. SO con­ve­nient! See?! Jump­ing on their beds…then, lay­ing down! The VTech Safe & Sound Video Mon­i­tor sys­tem con­tains a cam­era (the “baby unit”) and a receiver (“the par­ent unit”). Another awe­some fea­ture is that you can have up to 4 cam­eras linked to the same receiver! Cur­rently, we have 2 — one for Baby Brother’s room and one for the older boys. The cam­era just sits on their dresses, but can be mounted to the wall (some­thing we may need to do in both rooms even­tu­ally). Link­ing up the two cam­eras was incred­i­bly easy! I love that I can choose which cam­era I want to see on my par­ent unit OR I can choose a split screen ver­sion to see what’s hap­pen­ing in both rooms at the same time! The other thing I love is the infrared light­ing, even in super dark rooms, I can still make things out well. There really are so many great fea­tures with this mon­i­tor! Just check out this list:

• Six level sound indicator.
• Vibrat­ing Sound Alert — Enjoy some added peace by being silently alerted when there is sound in the baby’s room.
• Tem­per­a­ture Sen­sor — Par­ent Unit dis­plays baby’s room tem­per­a­ture. Be assured the con­di­tions are ideal for rest­ful sleep.
• Talk-Back Inter­com Sys­tem — Remotely com­mu­ni­cate with your baby from the par­ent unit to the baby unit. Soothe your baby from another room or even from outdoors.
• Poly­phonic Lul­la­bies — Play 5 dif­fer­ent lul­la­bies on the camera.
• Cam­era Bat­tery Com­part­ment — Add four AA bat­ter­ies (not included) to the cam­era for up to 4.5 hours of video streaming.
• Zoom the cam­era from the par­ent unit.
• Night View­ing — 8 infrared LEDs auto­mat­i­cally sense the light­ing con­di­tion pro­vid­ing full video view­ing in dark rooms.
• Split screen capa­bil­ity — Sys­tem sup­ports up to four cam­eras to be viewed from one Par­ent Unit. View­ing modes include Sin­gle View and Quad View Split Screen
• High Res­o­lu­tion 2.8″ Color LCD — Eas­ily view your baby (or babies) from the 320x240 full color display.
• Full Motion Video — Up to 22 frames per sec­ond of full color, dynamic frame rate video pro­vides excel­lent view­ing of all the action in the baby’s room.
• Wall Mount Bracket — Safely view your baby from a fixed loca­tion. Bracket includes a cord man­age­ment sys­tem for stor­ing excess power cord. Swivel, tilt and zoom the cam­era for the ideal view.
• Adjustable cam­era angle.
• Extended Range — Up to 1,000 feet of range allows you to feel safe and con­nected to your child while you go about your day.
• Dig­i­tal Trans­mis­sion — This 2.4GHz Fre­quency Hop­ping Dig­i­tal Spread Spec­trum sys­tem dig­i­tally trans­mits both the audio and video sig­nals. No annoy­ing white noise sound. You only hear the sounds com­ing from your baby. All trans­mis­sions are encrypted for your pri­vacy and security.
• Expand­able to 4 Cam­eras — For fam­i­lies with more than one child to mon­i­tor, this sys­tem can expand to four total cam­eras. Extra cam­eras sold separately.  

Awe­some, right?! So, I highly rec­om­mend the Vtech Safe & Sound Full Color Video & Audio Baby Mon­i­tor for added peace of mind & know­ing what’s going on with baby. And, if you’re like me with mul­ti­ple young chil­dren in mul­ti­ple rooms, then I think this is a “must-have”. We love all of the capa­bil­i­ties of this handy lit­tle piece of technology!

Dis­clo­sure: Vtech pro­vided me with the above prod­uct for the pur­poses of review. As always, all opin­ions and expe­ri­ences are entirely my own!