Hi dizzylisa and stacy0305
The baby monitor's are great these days, you can hear your baby breathing through the monitor, and also the sensor pad detects any non-movement.
I have an 8mth old, and we still have the monitor and sensor pad in her room (we are paranoid about the whole cot death as well, even now), although we've had a couple of false alarms, I'd rather false alarms than not have an alarm when something did go wrong.
We have the Angelcare monitor.