What age into cot and grobag?

[snowchick1977]

As it says really.

Dd is 15 weeks old and still in a crib by the side of our bed.....i know the guidelines say sleep in the same room for 6 months but I think it might be me that is keeping her awake as I shuffle a lot and snore ha ha!

Can i use a gro bag in the crib, its no bigger than a moses basket....or should I just try the cot?

Thanks x

[HettyAmaretti]

Grobag is fine in the crib, ideal.

Would you be able to sleep with her in another room? I know I wouldn't have been able to with my DC, would just have kept waking, worrying and checking. We'd all have had much more disturbance than we did with baby in our room.

[Pootles2010]

Well I was naughty and put ds in his cot at 8 weeks - best decision ever! Don't know about grobag in crib - whilst ds was in his moses basket it was still summer.

I'd pop him in his gro bag in his cot, personally.

[notevenamOoOooOoooosie]

Yes you can use a grobag. Is DD too heavy for the crib yet/ can she roll? Could you put the cot in your room?
She slept inside you whilst you shuffled and snored!! - it's completely up to you of course but I'd not be moving a baby before 6 months - there have been recommendations I've ignored but not that one..

[prioneyes]

I used a grobag and bedside cot until 8 months or so. Then she moved in with her sibling around 11 months.

[snowchick1977]

I could use a grobag in the crib but what i am saying is that they are really long and it would be scrunched up?

[HettyAmaretti]

It really doesn't matter if the bottom of the grobag is scrunched up, not at all. Why does it worry you?

[snowchick1977]

Not sure, i just thought its a lot of fabric to be scrunched up....had visions of it staying flat

[HettyAmaretti]

But even with all the room in the world it'll still scrunch up / fold / not lay flat - babies move and kick with their legs...

That said I remember folding the excess bag at the bottom up under DD's legs when she was tiny.

[HettyAmaretti]

But she was really tiny when she started using grobags - 3 or 4 weeks. I don't think there's any chance of the bag laying flat with an older baby. Not that it matters at all, the whole point is that they can move freely.

[StoneBaby]

I've use a grobag from the day we came back from hospital (DS was 7 days) and he has been in his cot in his own room from that day too (our bedroom is too small to fit a crib/cot)

We didn't have any issues with the grobag been folding or twisted and DS moves a lot whe nhe sleeps.

[NoGoodAtHousework]

Own cot from 2weeks and sleeping bag from around 3/4 weeks. Best thing we ever did. He's slept a million times better and now sleeps 7-7 at 12 weeks!