Right, I'm one for posting stupid questions. But I figure I can ask just about anything here!
First time mum, due in a few months, no babies in family or close by friends so no real experience of...anything. So please don't laugh at me too much.
Trying to figure out where the baby would go during the day. Planning on getting a Snuzpod and original idea was that while downstairs during the day, I'd detach the bassinet part. However, I now see several problems with this and need a rethink. 1 because it's actually quite heavy and awkward and I have very steep and narrow stairs in my cottage, 2 because they'll only fit in it the first 6 months and so I'll need to have a plan for after that and 3 because I'll probably want them to associate it with sleep, not just hanging out (?!?) downstairs.
Second thought was to get a pushchair with a carrycot and keep carrycot in living room. Problems again being 1 only lasts a few months and 2 not all prams we're eyeing up have one or would be expensive to add on (some are already lie-flat but I couldn't really fit the whole pushchair in the teeny tiny living room all day every day).
Was warned against getting a Moses basket as a waste of money and they grow out it even sooner.
Currently eyeing up a lie-flat car seat but not sure if they're OK to be in that all day (it says no time limit but I'm sceptical just because it's a car seat really). The car seat IS supposed to fit them longer though, and would be easily portable from car to house so seems like a good option otherwise. (As an aside, I want this anyway as our family and friends are a very very very long drive away and we'll be visiting them a few times a year, definitely this Christmas while the baby's still small and not safe to be in a normal car seat that long).
So...can anyone shed some light on what would be most practical? And do they go into the (crib/carrycot/Moses basket/lie flat car seat/etc, delete as appropriate) most of the day, like when I'm cooking, cleaning, organising baby things, whatever I will be doing whilst on maternity leave? Or do they go somewhere else (where?) when you need to put them down, and only into those things for sleeping?
Am I even being optimistic to think that I will have time to cook/eat?
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Where does baby go during the day?
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malin100 · 14/06/2016 23:04
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