I can just hear some people going, “WHAT? Are you crazy?”. I was a little tike in the early 60s and the only monitor my mom had was me screaming or the “THUNK” of me falling and hitting the floor.
Hangglide@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I had 3 babies and spent $0 on video monitoring. Your baby will be fine. Don’t fall for the advertising drama. Babies have been fine for thousands of years with no electronics.
RufusFirefly@lemmy.world 1 year ago
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I used a normal webcam to monitor my baby and, honestly, I was so paranoid that I don’t regret it. Seeing her breathe or move before I went to bed and when I woke up was a comfort and relief.
CADmonkey@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And only a few children were kidnapped by the Fae.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
What about the ones that were left in the cold for being sickly?
GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 1 year ago
frazw@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They’ve also not been fine.
SUID Death rate for infants has decreased even since 1990. Baby monitor likely had a role in that.
FYI not supporting subscription for features a device has in hardware, just saying I’d rather have a monitor that never went off than no monitor and a dead child. There are plenty of alternative devices without subs that cost a lot less to begin with.
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You know what else happened in the 90s? Leaded gas was banned. I’ll attribute it to that. Anecdotes don’t mean much.
wagoner@infosec.pub 1 year ago
You need to publish a scientific paper on your SIDs discovery. Don’t let this major work languish in some technology comment on Lemmy!
frazw@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m not saying baby monitors are the only reason for improved SUID rates. I’m saying they likely played a role. Despite your sarcasm, you might also be right that lead could have adversely affected unexplained infant mortality. The point I was trying to make was that baby monitors are not useless devices designed to extract money from you as implied by OP, whose comments by the way, were anecdotal.
$400 is excessive though. As is a subscription.
And data on SIDS is freely available. www.cdc.gov/sids/data.htm