Use this Mothercare promotional code to get £10 off when you spend £70 or more on a baby monitor. It only works on a single item.

Click here to use your Mothercare promotional code*

• Discount: £10
• Minimum spend: £70
• Applies to: baby monitors
• Promotional code: LNRM
• Expires: 31st January, 2013

To use this code, select the items you want to buy. It will only work with items from the baby monitor section. Enter it in the Promotion Code box on the Shopping basket page and it will be applied automatically to your order.

I tested this out initially by trying it on two baby monitors where the total cost of both came to more than £70. I thought this would be handy to have a set for, say, the grandparents and one for home. However the code wouldn't work. It only worked when I bought one baby monitor product that cost more than £70. At this price the shipping was free as well.

Thanks to missgem at HUKD!

There’s 20% off the Tommee Tippee Closer To Nature Video Sensor Monitor at Amazon right now, bringing the rather expensive gadget from £199.99 to £159.99.

• Keep an eye on things with the video sensor monitor

I must confess, that on the baby monitor scale, this one ranks pretty high. Yes, we have it, and although we don’t have call to use it too often, it’s brilliant.

It consists of a parent unit with a video screen, a baby unit with an adjustable video camera, and a motion sensor mat. There’s also 2 mains power adaptors, a battery pack and an instruction leaflet.

We’ve never used the mat, but the camera swivels in all the right ways, the sound quality is brilliant as is the video quality and the range is pretty good too – enough for popping out to the garage or sitting out in the garden and still keeping an ‘eye’ on the sleeping babies.

This monitor also features the two-way talkback function.

Opinion is divided on the Angelcare Baby Monitor and Sensor Mat here in the PlayPennies office - not as to whether or not it's any good, but whether or not it provides peace of mind or just makes you paranoid.

• Click HERE to take a look at the Angelcare Baby Monitor and Sensor Mat

Having had three babies and used this Angelcare baby monitor with the youngest of them, I can categorically say I slept better when I had the Angelcare monitor.

If the sensor mat technology was around and on the market in 1994 and 1995 when the teenagers were born, I didn't know about it and if I woke up in the middle of the night I'd have to go into their rooms and check they were okay.  With my youngest, now almost six, I didn't feel the need to and so I found my quality of sleep was much improved.

The sensor mat detects your baby's breathing and movement, if no movement is detected for 20 seconds it will sound the alarm - this provided me with massive peace of mind.

The Angelcare baby monitor also works the same as a standard baby monitor, letting you listen in to, and keep an ear out for, your little one when you're not in the same room as them; the digital display also tells you what the ambient temperature is in their room.

All in all I think this is a fabulous baby monitor and highly recommend it if you want that extra little bit of reassurance.

You can pick one up from Amazon for £64.99 instead of £99.99 - well, as long as they leave their prices alone for a little while you'll be able to.

Thanks to  pl8urk at HUKD

Home Bargains win today's low price prize for this Motorola MBP20 Wireless Video Baby Monitor - they're selling it for £49.99, the full price is usually £79.99.

• Click HERE to take a look at the Motorola MBP20 Wireless Video Baby Monitor

This really is a very good price for the Motorola MBP20 Wireless Video Baby Monitor, Amazon are selling it for £63.99 at the moment, Comet for £66.99 and Mothercare the full retail price.

When my eldest son was born, I had a Tommee Tippee baby monitor that had an arc of lights across the top that would light up when he made any sound - this was high tech at the time!

Next came the baby monitors with sensor mats and we all marvelled at this new way to keep tabs on our children as they slept; then came the video baby monitors.  I don't know if I'd buy one or not, oh who am I kidding!  I'd TOTALLY buy a video baby monitor if I was in the market for a baby monitor, especially for this price.

The Motorola MBP20 Wireless Video Baby Monitor is wireless and has a 200m range.  The screen measures 1.5 inches and will switch to infrared mode when it's dark, so you can keep an eye on your baby 24/7.

It also plays three lullabies, has a two-way communication feature and displays the temperature in your baby's room too.

If you have a Home Bargains local to you then you can go and collect your Motorola MBP20 Wireless Video Baby Monitor for free in-store, otherwise it's likely to cost you an additional £2.95 for delivery.

Happy video monitoring!

Amazon are selling this Philips Avent SCD525 Baby Monitor for £59.99 instead of £80.00.

• Click HERE to go over to Amazon

Baby monitors have come a long way since my first days with them, some almost 17 years ago.

Back then, it was a top of the range if it had flashing lights on the top, but now even the basic baby monitors have a ton of features for your parental delight.

This Philips Avent SCD525 baby monitor comes with the following:

• A temperature sensor, and five soothing lullabies to calm your baby that can be switched on remotely
• A lightweight and portable cordless parent unit, with a belt clip: move freely around the house while remaining in touch with your baby
• The parent unit allows up to 330m of roaming, and is rechargeable with up to 24 hours continous usage
• Talk-back allows you to talk to the baby remotely
• ECO mode allows you to decrease energy consumption and transmission power

The temperature sensor would be great for me - I'm not the best judge of room temperature and am often sitting cuddled up in warm cosy jumpers whilst the rest of the household is in shorts and t-shirts!

I also like the idea of being able to talk to your baby via the monitor - sometimes they just to hear you're still there rather than actually see you.

This is an Amazon Deal of the Week so the reduced price is guaranteed for the whole week.

Happy listening in!

I like, and have concerns with, the Tommee Tippee Digital Sensor Mat and Monitor. As a product, I think it's great – but I wish it could be sold only to sensible parents! Let me explain:

The Tommee Tippee Digital Sensor Mat and Monitor has three parts – a parent unit, baby unit and sensor pad.

The Tommee Tippee sensor pad lies under the baby's mattress and monitors breathing. It sounds an alarm if no movement has been detected after 20 seconds. Personally I don't find it a necessarily addition to a nursery (probably because we co-sleep) and think it would make me rather neurotic.
I do think, however, that sickly, premature babies or smoking parents could benefit from this, as such babies are at higher risk.

The Tommee Tippee baby unit has a nice design and has a very useful built in night light with three brightness settings which can be controlled from it or from the parent unit. It has volume control buttons and an on/off switch for the optional sensor pad. It also gives a room temperature reading. Helpfully, there's a locator alarm for those inevitable I-can't-find-the-parent-unit moments.

The parent unit is sleek and has a clip for attaching to clothes. The Tommee Tippee parent unit can be battery operated – two rechargables are included in the box – has a docking station for electric charging, and a sound level monitor.

The two things that bother me about this monitor are also probably its biggest selling points: it has a 300 meter range, and an out of range indicator, and it has a two-way talk back function to “reassure baby from afar”. While this is fantastic for older kids – “Johnny! Stop teasing your sister!” or “Kids, wash your hands and come down for dinner” - I have real concerns about it being used to 'shush-shush' babies who really need human comfort.

So, for sensible parents with older children, I love this monitor, but would urge parents to think twice about using the two-way talk back function as a replacement for physical comfort with infants.

The Summer Infant Digital Video Baby Monitor is £134.99 at Amazon, a saving of £45.

• Keep an eye on your little one with the video monitor from Summer

I must admit, I've never had much luck with Summer products. I had one of their fetal heart rate monitors with which I never picked up anything, and their first ever video baby monitor, which didn't work if you had WIFI or a microwave in the house.

Judging by the 5-star comments on this monitor, however, they have sorted out their issues. The reviewers – albeit only two – love it.

The screen has a large 9cm colour display with black and white night vision with easy to use touch screen display and menu controls. The camera is a 'pan and tilt' camera, meaning it can be moved around to a position that suits you, and with additional cameras you can keep tabs on the inhabitants of four different rooms on one monitor.

The battery has a 10-hour lifespan before needing recharging.

The reviewers on Amazon have left lengthy comments with a lot of information, so well worth a read if you're thinking of buying.

Thanks to londonuk at HUKD

This Angelcare AC401 Baby Monitor and Sensor Pad will provide peace of mind that, in my opinion, you can't put a price on.

• Click HERE to get this Angelcare Baby Monitor from Boots

I had one of these monitors when my youngest was born and I wouldn't have been without it.  I didn't have one with the older two - I'm not even sure they were available when they were tiny - and the difference in my quality of sleep was very noticeable.

With the Teenagers, if I woke up in the night I would HAVE to go and check that they were still breathing. With my youngest I didn't feel the need to and slept better as a result.

The Angelcare Baby Monitor is a sound monitor so you can keep an ear on whether they are awake when you might be too far away in the house, or there's a lot of noise going on, to guarantee you'll hear them.

It also has a motion sensor mat that monitors the movement from breathing and triggers the alarm should this stop. Contrary to popular belief, I found this didn't make me worry more, it had the opposite effect.

It usually retails for £79.99, but Boots currently have it on offer for £69.99 and if you apply this code at the checkout - AFPE22 - the price will come down to £62.99.

Delivery is free or you can collect it from your local store and you'll pick up a stash of Boots Advantage points too.

Thanks to Gavin1980 over at HUKD.

I think I will dub today 'Safety Saturday'!

• Click HERE to go to Amazon

Baby monitors were a MUST for me for several reasons.

1) the walls in my house are 2 feet ghick and noise doesn't travel well - so with me in one room and a baby in another a monitor was essential.

2) peace of mind - both during the day and night time (once they were in their own bedrooms).  Having a monitor on during the day meant I could be getting on with other things rather than having to sit in silence waiting for them to wake up; during the night I could sleep without keeping one ear open just so that I wouldn't sleep through them if they woke up!

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