Graco Angelcare Movement Sensor with Nursery Monitor

by Graco

Product Features

• Detects your baby's slightest movements, even while sleeping
• Alarm sounds if baby becomes absolutely still for 20 seconds
• Under-the-mattress sensor pad detects baby's slightest movements
• Sensor Pad sends signal to Nursery Unit which sounds an alarm
• Portable Parents' Unit (Sound Monitor) will pick up alarm and other nursery sounds

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 11 x 12.8 x 5 inches ; 3.6 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B0000CEDRO
• UPC: 740033000324 740033001482
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,279 in Baby (See Top 100 in Baby)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (65 customer reviews)

Product Description

itor) two AC adapters It can also operate with 8 AAA batteries (not included).

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Saved my baby's life, September 8, 2004

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L. Solberg "bennlarr" (Monterey, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Graco Angelcare Movement Sensor with Nursery Monitor (Baby Product)

My baby had RSV at 7 weeks old, and wasn't bad enough to go into the hospital right away. About 3 am, the monitor went off, and he wasn't breathing. We were able to get to get him breathing again, and he was admitted to the hospital for 8 days after that. If it weren't for the monitor, he would have stopped breathing and we would have not been able to save his life. It is expensive, but worth every penny to have a happy healthy baby now!

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars We sleep well knowing this product is turned on, September 8, 2007

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M. J. Miller (San Jose, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Graco Angelcare Movement Sensor with Nursery Monitor (Baby Product)

My wife used to wake up every 15 minutes or so and check to make sure the baby was still breathing. She was so very worried about SIDS, and at first she insisted the baby sleep in the same room as us so that she could keep an eye on her.

We've both been sleeping more soundly now, knowing that the Angelcare Monitor will tell us if there's a problem.

This product should also work well for monitoring seniors, but since it monitors for any movement in the bed, a second person in the bed would throw it off.

This falls short of a perfect 5 star rating for two reasons:

+ It has a sensitivity adjustment knob but at best, sometimes the baby rolls too far away from the sensor and it goes off, and on the same setting we've noted that sometimes when the baby is no longer in the crib (we're standing next to the crib rocking her back to sleep in our arms) it picks up our footsteps as breathing. That means a large dog in the room might also throw it off. Still, it's usually accurate.
+ The audible baby monitor functions are not very good. Perhaps in the silicon valley there are more of us with wireless gateways, wireless security systems, wireless phones, etc. that create interference. I bought a second baby monitor with 10 frequencies that we set next to the Angelcare monitor in the baby's room (Angelcare only has two). If the Angelcare alarm goes off, the other baby monitor picks up the sound and broadcasts it on a frequency free from static.

Suggestion: If you're going to get a second monitor, get a video monitor. Sometimes you hear an odd sound in there and it's helpful to see what's going on without walking in there (are they throwing up or pulling the sheets off the mattress? The sounds are surprisingly similar!).

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best baby monitor, period., September 21, 2007

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J. Cain "fuzzlekins" (East Coast, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Graco Angelcare Movement Sensor with Nursery Monitor (Baby Product)

If I could only buy one baby item, it would be this one. It is that wonderful. No baby should be without this monitor. This monitor can save lives, not just tell you when baby is waking up or fussing. We have used this monitor every single day since our baby arrived home - we love it and couldn't sleep without it. We have had a few false alarms when she strays to the edge of the crib mattress but no big deal. SIDS happens and there is no better monitor to protect your baby from being a SIDS victim than this one. We use it every time our baby is in her crib and we've used it in her bassinet as well. It has nice features of being able to adjust the volume on the extra sound piece and being able to turn the ticking sound on/off. The way it works is very simple -- you put the movement sensor underneath the mattress on a hard surface (thin piece of wood works - it even works with just the crib springs underneath) and it detects the baby's movement caused by breathing. The main monitor piece that stays in the nursery has a flashing green light that flashes as movement is detected. If the movement stops for several seconds, you hear a single beep and a red light flickers on both the nursery unit and the mobile unit. After a few more seconds, an alarm will sound.