Re: A useful thing?
A basic baby monitor is quite cheap and in fact we were given or offered a couple of second-hand sets when our first was born. We found them quite useless for a variety of reasons I can't be bothered to go into now.
Maybe I should have included a /s tag. I was suggesting could it actually be that baby monitors have a relatively small effect on the risks of cot death and that there are simpler, cheaper and more effective things that can be done? Remember the massive difference that reversing the advice to lay babies on their fronts made?
M.