👶 Baby monitor

A baby monitor is treated like any other consumer electronic device — screeners will not flag it, confiscate it, or ask you to check it. It passes through carry-on X-ray screening without any issue. If it contains a lithium battery, that battery should stay in the device or your carry-on, not a checked bag.

Baby monitors are universally unrestricted in both carry-on and checked baggage across all major aviation authorities. No country applies special rules to them. The only consistent global rule that touches monitors is the prohibition on loose spare lithium batteries in checked baggage — but the monitor itself has no restrictions anywhere.

Some airports and checkpoints, particularly in the US and UK, occasionally ask passengers to power on electronic devices to prove they are functional, but this is typically applied to laptops and tablets rather than baby monitors. If you are asked to demonstrate your monitor, simply switch it on. This is a verification step, not an indication that the item is restricted.

Keep the monitor unit in your carry-on to protect it from the rough handling common in checked baggage, and make sure any spare lithium batteries for it are also in your carry-on rather than your checked bag. If you are checking the monitor, remove the batteries and pack them separately in your carry-on. The monitor's camera unit and cables can go in either bag without restriction.