Totally makes sense BS. My fiance is like that, he will ask "what was that" over every little noise they make. He is pretty anal though and takes things very seriously and worries about the kids hurting themselves here.

I use the monitor as another tool to help keep things safe but I definitely don't check it often. Once they are asleep I turn the volume down so I don't hear them turning and such. I will be totally honest, the biggest reason I wanted the monitor was because I'm lazy!!! LOL I didn't want to keep going down to check. I have a few kids who would make all this noise (banging their feet on the playpen) and it worried my fiance just in case it wasn't the feet on playpen. I'd be going down 3-4x a nap to reassure him that all was fine! I got a great deal on it down in the States ($90!) so it was our compromise! Now he knows that I was right as he can see it's just their feet LOL. I used to stay down in the dc all day but as the kids got older I started going upstairs more during nap time so it's worked out well. I totally get what you mean though!!