OK, so you have a bundle of joy on the way. CONGRATS!! You are now trying to figure out what to do to monitor the little bugger, yes? Well, let me help!The Miku is the system you should purchase. There are others, but they are either under-featured or over-gimmicky.It's not perfect. In fact, there's some things that really irritate about it, but it does its general job very well.GOOD - Fairly quality camera. Shoots night vision very well, color does okay. Connects to WIFI without much trouble (you do need a 2.4mhz band, which you probably have, but some day that might be phased out). It transmits audio and video to your device anywhere, which is nice if you have to walk a long way to your mailbox. The app also does a great job of recording video of movement events (it appears they have this going back to when I installed it, which you typically have to pay for in home monitoring) and the actual color graph of sleep/movement/awake is really accurate and helpful. You can "talk" through it, take pictures, have ambient noises, and generally always watch your baby.BAD - You might need proprietary equipment to have it in more than one place. They sell a stand-up stand and cord, but they were out of it around Christmas time and it was waaaaay too expensive for a cord. They also have some features that DO NOT WORK. And those features can really give you the idea that this thing doesn't work well. For instance- breathing tracking. It doesn't work. It shows an EKG graph when no one is in the crib! That's really, really bad. The associated alerts and alarms for lack of movement DO NOT WORK. Turn them off, they will just give you white hair. Finally, it's a bit tricky to share the feed on multiple devices- you have to create a code for them from deep in the app, then transfer that code to additional devices. Not terribly intuitive, but we solved it within a few minutes.OK, with that out of the way, here's what you've got: A great baby monitor that streams to your phone. This means you have to have either your regular phone or an older one (I use an older one) plugged in by the bed. It can also transmit sound if you turn your screen off, which is nice to have it in your pocket.What you don't have is a magical device that analyses your baby's chest to measure its breathing and heart beat. IT SHOULD NEVER CLAIM TO DO THIS. We almost sent it back when we saw how poorly these features worked. But the alternative is another gimmicky device where you have your baby wear a special sleep sack or sock. If this is your first child that sounds alright, but trust me- you will NOT be able or willing to put that on after every single 3-hour-interval feeding or changing. It just isn't practical and you won't use it (after that first week when you feel obligated to).So, with that stuff out of the way, the Miku does great job at just transmitting video and audio to your phone. The app has some cool analytics and some excellent historical video (you'll want to know how she got upside down or left-right at some point, and the auto video recordings will solve those little mysteries).It's a bit expensive. It has features that they should immediately delete and forget about (unless they can program them correctly). They want to nickel-and-dime you if you want to take it on vacation or have a second location (I set up another cord in the bedroom for that first month, and just transferred the camera head to where she's sleeping that night). But it does its job and it does it well. If you have that spare phone or two (we have on on the couch almost always on monitor), this is the unit you should get.4 out of 5 points for Ravenclaw.