Sony BabyCall Nursery Monitor NTM-910 900 MHz Review

The Sony Baby Call monitor is so sensitive, you can hear every breath your baby takes. The first time I used it, I turned the volume up and was jarred awake when my baby cried. It was LOUD! We've since learned to turn it down! It's so sensitive, that even upstairs, it can pick up the sound of a television being played in the living room below.

While the base unit stays plugged in in baby's room, the other, rechargeable unit can be plugged in by your bed or taken along to any area of the house. It has a handy carrying handle on top and a belt clip on back to keep it securely with you. And, if you get out of the base unit range, a red light blinks and an alarm sounds letting you know you've gotten too far away to hear baby.

It operates on different channels so you can adjust it until it works at optimum performance for you and can be set to "off," "on" or "voice activated," which only comes on if a noise is heard.

This baby monitor gave me the freedom to get chores done and never miss my crying baby when my kids were small and, now that they're bigger, we still use it as a kind of intercom. When they are upstairs playing, I leave it on to hear what they're doing and, if they need something, they can just speak normally in the room and I can hear them without them having to shout for me.

The Sony Baby Call is not just for babies, which is great since there are so many baby gear items that are useless once kids get older.