Is it UR (ie, unsafe) to have baby in a travel cot for first few months?

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I can't bring myself to spend £70 on a Moses basket, and we don't have a car so getting a second hand one would be a bother.

John Lewis have some travel cots for sale that have an insert for babies up to 3m. Also have a changing mat insert and can be used as a play pen later. The bed bit is elevated do baby wouldn't be low down on the floor.

Can't do links as on phone, but: m.johnlewis.com/mt/www.johnlewis.com/231429262/Product.aspx

So, question is, would I be unreasonable to get one for our bedroom for the first few months when she's born?

Why can't you just put your cot in your bedroom?

Buy a playpen/travel cot later on. :)

Looks fine though!

DD, through one thing and another (emigration and still waiting for our shipping to arrive being one) is still in a travel cot. She is 15 months. We put her in it after a couple of weeks as the moses basket wasn't really working for us (toddler DD getting in etc.) It's fine.

DD, no3 son and no4 son all went into a travel cot more or less immediately. DD and no3 son moved out to a bed when the next one was born (so they were each 2) and no4 son stayed in the travel cot until he was almost five and too big really and mostly in with me every night and we managed to rearrange the house to get the bedrooms sorted out.
We had a Graco one with a removeable bassinette as they called it and they were all fine in it.

Travel cots work just fine, I used to have one in the living room for daytime, saved going back and forth to the bedroom at nap time. It looked very much like the one in the link and had a mobile attached over the top. It was used a lot, and then I removed the bassinet attachment and used it as a playpen toy storage. I went by the weight limit on it and how active the baby was before removing the top part.

My DD was in her Moses basket in our room for four months and is now in a travel cot because we can't bring ourselves to put her in another room yet. She seems fine so far...

no need for Moses basket - get 2nd hand cot, brand-new mattress and you're sorted

Here's your linky. I was told the mattresses aren't good long-term. You could buy a normal cot mattress to go in it...

Perfect - thanks everyone!

Not UR at all, but why bother with a travel cot. Can't you put baby into normal cot in your room, it surely won't take up more space than a travel cot?

My nephew (who is now 21) slept in a draw when he was a new born. My sister took the draw out, padded it and then put the draw in his cot. You could do the same thing and put in the travel cot.

The smaller space might make the new born feel more secure.

That's actually a really good point about having the cot in our room...I guess it's because I'd heard that lots of babies feel a bit lost in a big cot when they're very little? And Moses baskets (and thus for with the insert bit) makes them feel more contained - is that rubbish?

But I think you may be right about the cot in our room. I'm that that has escaped me, so fixated on moses baskets was I!

It's the vast space that can freak them out.

And thank you for doing the link mrsterry

So is there a way of making them more snug in a big cot? I love the draw idea, but I suspect it's against current SIDS advice with the padding!

*drawer!

You can get a cot seperater...hang on...

moses baskets = useless bits of tat that nobody at all really needs your baby will only fit in it for a teny tiny time and chances are will be far to long to actually fit in it by the time hs/she is a couple of months old.

people tend to buy them because they look cute and they think they need them baby product shops feast on parents insecurities by implying that your crap if you dont buy all the frilly stuff they want you to.

tiny babies are perfectly safe in cots they do not need a special divider or any such nonsence,as long as you place baby in the feet to foot position. im just off to have a google because i have a feeling ive seen a very cheap wooden cot with mattress thats mail order,

Swaddling or we used a sleep sack. I am convinced that it made DD feel secure. She still, aged 21 months, sleeps in a sack and when the weather is hot and she is just in pyjamas, she doesn't sleep as well and fidgets around more.

Here you go

Oh and DD was a ginormous big baby so slept in a Moses basket for about a week before she was too big. Agree they are a waste of money.

My ds slept in his pram in our room until he went in his own room and cot at 4 months

Moses basket we bought looked to flimsy for me when we out him in it so i sold it on.

You can get a lot for less than 70 quid.

I got my Moses basket from JL for 30.

Cot from IKEA = 25 quid.

Both mine went in a cot from birth - including the preemie.