Just turn it down so you don't hear every little sound. I don't understand being embarrassed? My daughter's room is quite far from my own and I still use it--she is 4.5 yrs old. I have been glad for it on occasions when she is sick especially. Then again, it doesn't "bother" me a bit.

I would turn it off. Re-purpose it for monitoring your kids play area, so you can keep an ear on them, even when you can't keep an eye on them. Like when you are tackling the mountain of laundry. (or maybe I am the only one with a mountain of laundry.) You can always move it back in to the bedroom on nights when one of your children are sick, just like you would break out the humidifier for them.

I forget when we stopped using it, but Ell started sleeping out of crib around 2. I know we didn't use it then.

I am a very heavy sleeper, and a big concern for me was that I'd never hear my baby cry. Sure enough though, the nurture/parent mechanism allowed me to hear him cry if he cried long enough without my wife soothing him.

Honestly, Stacey, if you've been sleeping terribly all this time, you've likely got no risk of sleepig through any serious crying of his. Your deep sleeping is ruined long term as it is.

I knew there'd be a day when I'd unplug the monitor, but I haven't yet. For us, though, our girls are downstairs from us, and we really can't hear them if they cry out. I don't need it often in the middle of the night for our 2yo, but it's good to know when she finally falls asleep or wakes up in the morning. Our older daughter is 5, and she still needs occasional soothing from nightmares or the few times she falls out of bed. Without her monitor, who knows how long she'd be downstairs screaming before I heard her. I sleep like a rock. We also use the monitors as an alarm clock. I know we'll have to get rid of them one day because teenagers will want their privacy, but I don't foresee it happening anytime soon.

I'd just get a new monitor that isn't so static-y. We still use our for our almost 6yr old and 2 yr old. We live in a small house and I don't always hear them, nor do I want my 6 yr old screaming (thus waking his sister) b/c he thinks I can't hear him. Nothing wrong with doing what makes you comfortable and safe in the world of parenting.

Of course it is nice.good mama knows best

We turned ours off around when the kids hit 18mos. Since your son's room is next to yours, just leave the doors open. You'll hear him when there's an issue, but will now get some more sleep - and hopefully your husband will also!

put the monitor on Troy's side of the bed for a while. ;) No seriously, I would move it across the room, or into the bathroom or something so that you don't here all the small noises, but you would definitely hear crying out.
We used the monitor I believe through his 3rd year....we run a fan in our room for white noise, so hearing him without the monitor is a little more difficult. Granted, he started coming to our door knocking, and then the monitor became pointless. You will be there soon enough. I still used the monitor for our annual beach trip though, so that we can be out in the hot tub and hear if the munchkin wakes up in the big house. Super handy!

It would be hard to tell if I were dead or sleeping. I hear nothing. But, I had a great monitor - my husband would wake me to tell me to get up cause the baby was crying.