To bake or not to bake, that is the question...

get a mosquito net for over the travelcot/pram...

Playing - you are right to look at the research, but also just go with what feels right for you at the time.

FWIW the actual number of SIDS from bedsharing reduced (and this also included sofa-sharing) but it does not distinguish between regular co-sleepers and babies that have been taken into the bed as a one-off.

Strange. reading all the info, the are def against any form of bed sharing and do recommend babies sleeps in your room in a cot for 6 months, but they don't say why. I would love to find out more, the same website also says breast feed for 6 months too, which many women don't, so I am not sure. I don't understand why they can't tell me why baby should sleep in the same room as you, cos I am struggling to understand!

BB, might use growbags/baby bags, they are good (place I used to work sells them) but they seem like a lot too fiddle about with in the middle of the night to change a nappy.

I could never share a bed with mine. I'd be terrified.
I'm probably getting a moses basket for downstairs depending on if we sell the pram or not as you can use the carrycot as a moses basket which is what we did with ds.

The whole feet to foot thing is great when they cant move, but as soon as they can roll over they move, we use grobags(dh thinks ds is a tomato) so it doesn't matter if they move.

Oh and have just read that 39% of babies that die of SIDS were sharing a bed with parents here.

Hi all

Playing im gonna use Grobags so no worries about covers.. im thinking that we may put up cot in our room for the first few months.. i am (probably wrongly) assuming its ok to put them straight into a cot?

Im dead set on not getting a moses basket or crib (waste of cash)so failing this it will be a travel cot ( which we are getting anyway for downstairs)

A quickie while were on the baby subject... not that we are ever off it he he... anyone got any experience of babies and cats?

Cos we have two, which dont go outside.. i am planning to collapse travel cot when downstairs and not in use so they cant get in, put locks on bedroom doors (just hook and eyes) any other ideas?

Interesting point Teuch, hadn't even considered the regulating breathing argument, as I said I dont really know much about it. Will be doing loads of research before I make final decision.

Hi folks and hullo Disenchanted!!

Re SIDS, I know people who have put there babies straight into their own room but the recommendations are there for a reason IMO. There is also evidence that your breathing regulates your baby's breathing as well as the fact that you are there.

Try and get a crib or moses basket (borrow?) for the first wee while or try co-sleeping.

Hi all. BB dont really know much about SIDS, apart from you should put baby at the bottom of the cot with feet touching the bottom so they cant snuggle down and get the covers over their head. To be honest I can't see what difference it would make, if baby dies in their sleep (god forbid it happens to none of us) I am sure you wouldn't know about it even if you were sleeping in the same room. I had a work colleague whose fiance died of SADS (which is SIDS in adults). He died in bed with her lying next door to him. She woke in the morning and found him dead next to her. Absolutley awful, but if she didn't know anything about it when lying next door to an adult I dont see how you would with a baby?

Lol kaz!

I feel the same, i have 2 under 4 already. I had a bug the other week and it really put me off.

I must be mad!

well i may aswell fess' up.. ive started taking pregnacare type vits (with folic acid) as of last week ... guess im committed im also taking codliver oil capsules (for ma' achin' bones lol) and Cranberry extract pills (to avoid cystitus)

Hello Disenchanted,
How are you?
I'm exhausted ds is ill so didnt sleep last night. Kinda makes me wonder what I'm letting myself in for by ttc another one.
I'm trying now too, hoping for bfp around the 7th March

Hiya girls

How are you all?

Im hopefully starting to TTC now, ive been up and down about it for months but Im 99% sure Im gonna just go for it!

I posted about my cycle though and its really messed up this month so im going to have to wait till next month now

Hmm i might nip off and do some research, im gonna end up neuorotic...

Oh yeah I'm glad you are feeling better Playing.

Well our next lo will have to be in our room as there isn't enough room for another cot in ds's nursery.
Hopefully by then we'll have got our council house. Its hard enough to carry 1 dc up and down the stairs.
I'm not sure why but they do say they are meant to be in your room for the 1st 6 months.

Playing and kay, im actually with you on thuis one

ive read about it and i plan to have lo in our room for one month but in the cot, then move them into there own room, because the room is right next doo (two bedroom house) i might even do it sooner... Does anyone have any links to why you shouldnt in regards to SIDS? x

Hi Kay, I am good, finally stopped feeling ill which is good.

I am very much up for putting baby straight into cot in the nursery. Our bedroom is not that big (in fact the spare bedroom is bigger but ours has a fireplace and is at the front of the house, so we like it better) so it would be squashed to put baby in their too. Plus I quite like the idea of getting baby into routine of sleeping in their own cot, I know that goes against the grain of what most people do and I might be horrified about that suggestion when I have a LO, but right now I am quite liking the idea.

I was doing similar Playing.
We were thinking of just buying a cot and putting the new baby in there from day one instead of borrowing mils crib again.

How are you today Playing?

How exciting people will pg tests!! Lets hope "we" get a BFP soon. On a slightly more random not I was measuring up the spare room for cots yesterday , think I must be looosing the plot

I had no symptoms with ds, no morning sickness, sore boobs anything at all, I bet it wont be like that next time round.
I'll probably get everything knowing my luck

DOn't I'll get stagefright...

COntrary to my foot-stamping, outcry "ME FIRST!!!!!" of early hours sunday, I want to pretend that I am ignoring the impending date and then 'accidentally' pee on a stick No big build-up please?!

I had such an anti-climax last month what with the lack of HPT's and plethora of symptoms...

No symptoms yet btw

Its you first Teuch, I'll probably be at work on the 28th so I'll have to keep checking to see when you do your test!!
I'm just wondering if ds will be to young while I'm pg to understand what is happening

ohh exciting!!!

AAHHHH
I've just ordered some pg tests from Boots, I know we're ttc so why do I feel really nervous. My AF isn't even due until March 7th!!
Why do I feel like a little kid in Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory???

Hello Star, Wow Bon Jovi I'd love to go and see them and the Foo Fighters.
I'm glad I've got seated tickets as I would normally go standing.
Don't mention the FA cup I support Arsenal(useless) stupid Man Utd!! I nearly cried.

NJ Hopefully ds will be ok, he is now fast asleep so I'm getting a bit of a rest.