moses basket stands- stationary or rocking?

[babyboots]

Hi...

Can anyone help me choose? Does the handiness of being able to collapse the stand out weigh the benefits of a rocking stand soothing a baby?

If you have a rocking stand, does it really help settle baby?

Thanks, feel so clueless about all this!!!

[fruitful]

I had a rocking cradle. I had it next to the bed, and when the baby started to stir I could stick a hand/foot out of bed and rock him back to sleep. Fab!

I didn't have it for dd and it would have been good I think. Before she was born I was thinking I wouldn't rock my baby to sleep - my baby would learn to sleep on his own! Hah! (that particular skill took her two years).

Hence the rocking thing for ds1 & ds2. But I did have a cradle taking up most of the floor space in our room for 6 months each time, and we both used to stub our feet on the rockers in the night, all the time!

But again - if we'd had a collapsible stand I bet we'd never have put it down.

HTH!

[grumblegrumble]

I swore by my rocking stand, and several of my friends used it too - great in the night for jiggling a slightly stirring baby off to sleep without having to move!

And if you collapse the stand, you still have the basket itself to store (and/or find somewhere else to keep the baby). So I doubt you'd collapse it, until the baby outgrew the moses basket.

But don't go for the side-to-side swinging cribs, all the babies I know who've been in them have hated them!

[tizzybombizzy]

Personally I found a moses basket a creeky thing to place a baby in, I preferred a proper wooden swinging crib.I love the baby old fashioned look of a moses basket, but it just didn't suit because of the noise.