Ok, first off, I know that they can't be implicated in cot deaths, otherwise they just wouldn't be on sale! But when you read that all cot bumpers and other soft padding should be removed from a newborn's cot because of suffocation risk, and that the airflow through the bars shouldn't be blocked off... You have to ask - why are Moses baskets so widely used, then? They have no, or little air flow, as far as I can see, and surely a baby is as likely to wriggle against the sides (which are padded, they don't sleep in bare baskets, do they?) as against a cot bumper?
Feeling a little nervous! I'm 32 weeks and we haven't got the poor little one anything to sleep in yet. We thought of a basket first off, because it'll fit by the bed, on a chest of drawers. There isn't really room in our bedroom for a small crib, let alone a cot... What are other people opting for, for the first few months?
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EllieKat · 11/01/2008 18:11
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