The monitor also features a useful, adjustable nightlight and a changing-colour temperature gauge on the baby unit. If you need to talk to your baby (or partner!) there’s a very useful talkback feature – but be warned, you can't adjust the volume and the sound quality is so good you sound like you're shouting.
This monitor provides advanced features too, such a crying alert on the parent unit, a feed timer and alert on the parent unit, wipe-able keys on both units, mute low/mute all, power on/off, paging, low battery alert, belt clip, volume control, rechargeable batteries and a torch on the parent handset.
What we love
Being no lover of complex instructions I was pleased to note that the Baby Monitor 250 is a cinch to use straight from the box – just plug in and go.
The monitor has a range of up to 300m outdoors and 50m indoors and the sound quality is excellent. Compared to other monitors I’ve tested it is sensitive enough to hear my baby Ted, 10 months, breathing quietly. In a month of using it at home, with the baby and parent units in close proximity to radios, it also has no interference whatsoever.
The nightlight is just bright enough to see so you can feed or check on your baby without disturbing them.
The monitor is reasonably priced considering the number of features it has.
What to watch out for
The temperature monitor glows red (for too hot) too easily, for example, on a warm autumn day, which might cause some mums to worry unnecessarily. I compared the temperature reading for this monitor with another model and found it measured the room, on average, two degrees hotter. The temperature warning alert can only be muted for certain periods of time, so on a hot August night the beeps become extremely irritating!
The parent unit hangs down a fair way below the belt clip, which means it's not comfortable to wear like this. Because the parent unit is so compact, it wobbles off its charging base when it gets accidentally knocked.
There are eight lullabies to help your baby drift off to sleep although I found these had the tinny noise of a cheap radio, so after one trial we never used them again – they are an unnecessary feature in reality.
Who is the BT Baby Monitor 250 best for?
Parents seeking interference-free listening.
The BT Baby Monitor 250 has crystal-clear, interference-free sound. This no-nonsense baby monitor offers a wide-range of features, and while the temperature monitor is very sensitive and the lullabies tinny, the sound quality and ease of set-up are excellent.
