With such a vast range of baby monitors available nowadays, it is vital that you find one that fits your customer's lifestyle and the home in which it is to be used. If a parent wishes to monitor baby from a few rooms away or in a relatively small house, a basic model will suffice. However, if the house is on a number of levels or particularly large, it is worth suggesting one with a larger range to be sure of hearing baby further away.

A simple monitor will allow a parent to hear what is happening in baby's room, while the increasingly popular TV varieties enable baby to be seen without having to go into the nursery and risk disturbing them. "If your baby is getting to be more mobile at night and constantly turns over or gets themselves stuck by the bars of the cot, you may be happier with this type of monitor," says BabyMonitors.org.uk in a point worth noting.

Most monitors have a belt clip that allows parents to carry the receiver with them around the house and if your customer is likely to want to do this regularly, one with a high quality, durable fastening is a must. Multiple monitors meanwhile, mean Mum and Dad can stay on alert at all times.

You should also discuss the power source and battery life of the product in question, to ensure that it is capable of operating for the required duration. Analog audio transmissions can be picked up at a distance from the home using a scanner receiver or other baby receiver, so be sure to discuss any relevant security features also. Digital audio wireless systems, which are resistant to interference and have a range of up

to 300m, have become very popular with consumers in recent years as a result of such concerns.

Other features of baby monitors include: remote controls, rechargeable batteries for the receivers, inbuilt temperature displays, out of range alarms, last feed timers, night-lights, notification if a baby stirs or doesn't stir, musical monitors and talk-back facilities that enable parents to reassure baby and each other remotely. "If you have a toddler who is starting to talk you can use the baby monitor for much longer. And if one parent goes up to check on the baby, they are able to talk quietly to the other parent downstairs - without disturbing the baby or having to go back downstairs to pass on the required message. Some parents also use them to lull their baby back into a comfortable sleep if they have woken up and they are unsettled," says BabyMonitors.org.uk of the benefits.

While no parent wants to risk not attending to baby when needed, many want to judge the intensity of baby's sound before going to check. For these parents, a monitor with a sound sensitive light display of moving lights which echo the level of baby's sounds may well be the answer. An added bonus of this, says Tomy, is even with the sound turned down, a parent can decide when to react to baby's sounds as the lights indicate the noise level, allowing the device to be used when it is impossible or impractical for the receiver to play the sound. Other monitors have a vibrating alert on the receiver making it particularly useful for people with hearing difficulties, adds Tomy.

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