Please note that we only offer fitting on select car batteries and do not currently offer fitting on motorcycle or leisure batteries. The company should make instructions easy to understand or provide a QR code or video to walk you through the process. Along with a live video feed of the baby’s room and temperature and humidity readings, the app allows you to snap a picture, speak to your baby, or change the volume settings for the “background audio on” feature, should you navigate away from the app. This opens up lots of new options, including increased range, the ability to record and save videos, and perhaps the ability to view the live feed from multiple devices (such as a parent unit and a smartphone or tablet). The display shows you the room’s temperature, too, though in our temperature testing it consistently measured a few degrees higher than the control.

Audio baby monitors only allow you to hear your child and therefore can have you running back and forth from their room unnecessary and thus increasing the possibility of waking them up. Ideal for soothing your child to sleep, it features 2-way talkback, 18 different lullabies and even a star and moon light show. While it doesn’t have an extra monitor (connecting instead to a smartphone app) you can tap a button that puts the video feed in a window at the top right of your iPhone so that it’s there every time you glance at the screen – a unique capability that means you don’t have to enter the app to check in. As long as you set up the Nanit Pro on your Wi-Fi network, it can maintain the video stream even if the internet goes down, provided that your Wi-Fi router still has power. The display unit was able to maintain a solid connection to the camera everywhere in a three-story home, and it stayed connected the longest (though with an increasingly pixelated image) during our walk down the street.

Parents should bear in mind that a newborn should always sleep in the same room as a carer or parent.

Nanit pushes a sleep-training agenda that may rub you the wrong way, from nudges on putting your baby down drowsy but awake to offers to connect parents to “sleep-training experts” for a fee.

When it comes to preventing hacking, Nanit has taken more precautions than the majority of its competitors.

It’s also more complicated to hand over the task of checking on a sleeping baby to other caretakers.If this isn’t possible or convenient, then you might need to also invest in a separate smart device like an ipad, that you can use predominantly with the brand’s video monitoring app and always have it plugged in. I’ve tested all of the above and you can read my reviews further down, followed by some advice on how to use them. When Jasper was co-sleeping with us, his granny often had to remind us that there was a live video feed from our bedroom to the kitchen screen, so be wary when you’re changing or having private conversations! The Snuza Hero MD is a frills-free, pocket-sized device that clips onto your little one’s nappy (no cords or external power sources required) and registers each breath, alerting you if it detects a weak pattern of less than eight breaths per minute, or if breathing stops altogether.