What’s the best baby monitor

I’m planning to put my little girl in her cot for her daytime naps but need a monitor. What does everyone have and what is said to be the best?

I don’t want the owlet and I would prefer to have a physical monitor to watch, not an app.

Thanks mumma’s!

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I use the VTECH VM3263 - its Bluetooth, can move the camera view around, talk to the camera if needed - I’ve been really pleased with it! x

We have this one still from our older now toddler, decent camera even at night , does the job doesn’t cost the earth and wifi free so no weirdos can hack and watch/talk to baby 🫠 and with these things I always trust the reviews with Argos over 1300 reviews and still basically at 5 stars says it all 🙂 https://www.argos.co.uk/product/9527814?clickSR=slp:term:baby%20monitor:3:43:1

Babysense, a tad pricey but totally worth it in my opinion!

We have a Vtech and it is really good but I would say one thing to bear in mind is you can’t buy replacement charging cables for it. Absolutely fine if you have a relatively peaceful household, my first two have 15 months between them and when we were using it for our second my first born took a real liking to wires and long story short it ended up wrecked and couldn’t get a replacement cable for the screen so couldn’t use it anymore x

We also have the Babysense, because it does split screen, and we have a 2yo as well.

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