i bought my tb mare form a dealer in april and just found out she is pregnant. i know nothing about mares in foal or how to care for foals. can anyone please point me in the right direction of useful websites or books i could read. Thanks
I'd be more concerned about the creepy neighbors being able to access the video of your kids in their rooms. I had a video monitor when my son was a newborn but immediately stopped using it when I realized I could pick up the video from the people's house across the street which means anyone with a reciever could have picked up mine as well.
I am sure they make dual camera monitors, but I have personally never seen one. My suggestion would be to wait until your baby comes and then see if you think you need two monitors. My girls are 15 mo apart and I didn't find I needed two even though I thought I would. Aesa - seriously? I always just had a regular monitor, not a video one - but that is creepy!
My friend has an alarm at her house. She went out the window so she could go to the backyard and jump on the trampoline. So if you can try a window.
Neither of my kids were okay with opened door check ups, ever, if we opened the door to see if they were ok, they woke up and refused to go back to sleep. Add to that that we can't even hear the doorbell or phone while in the basement, well, monitors are a necessity and we went with video monitors so we didn't end up waking the kids all the time instead of just checking on them. My son has a sleep disorder so there was no way I wanted to interrupt his sleep if I could help it. He was 21 months when his sister was born so what we did is buy two of the basic Safety 1st video monitors. I put each kid on a different channel. I mainly monitored the baby, but if I heard something from my son, I could switch channels and see if I needed to go in to him or if everything was okay. If I needed full-time monitoring of my son, say if we were watching a movie in the basement, I put on a voice only monitor I had for him whatever the cheapest fisher price one is but I could still look at him if I needed to by flipping channels. It worked fine at the same time as the video ones. It sounds really complicated but it worked out well for us. As for dual monitoring video ones I couldn't find one that worked the way I needed it to work thus the above. They have dual systems that will monitor more than one room at a time but you're only able to keep the receiver end on one room. Basically, doing what we did above, but I think the way we did it ended up being less expensive (I think the dual system was like $250). You can't run two videos in the same room at the same time, even on different channels, as they do interfere and you either get static or screaming. At least the ones we tried did.
Your 2.5 year old really will live without being monitored 24/7.
