To think you shouldn't let pets sleep in a cot with a newborn?

[DaenarysDrogo]

I visited a friend yesterday who has a lovely little DD who is just over a month old. I was however, rather taken aback when she said that her cat (a very large and furry one) often sleeps next to the baby in her cot when she's having a daytime nap. My friend doesn't stay in the room with her DD when she is asleep either, as she uses that time to do chores and cook. I could understand someone letting a cat sleep with a child when it was older but AIBU to think this could be dangerous when the baby is so young?

There has never been a reported death where a cat has killed a child. Total urban myth!

I wouldn't take the risk with a newborn though. Child fine, baby not fine.

Her DD has her six week check coming up in a week or so, so I'm kind of hoping she mentions it in passing to the doctor or HV and they throw up their hands in horror. She honestly doesn't think there's a problem with it.

I fucking hate the bullshit posts oh my cat babysits while l go to the pub. You're fucking hilarious.

The OP asked a question and in pile the comedy pack.

OP a friend who has more animals than l could bare thought nothing of her cat sleeping on the cot her twins used. Granted the cat was sleeping there when the twins weren't but l thought there is no way l would allow that.

Some people are too trusting of their pets.

I don't let my cat anywhere near my baby and my baby is 7 months old.
Btw, I'm pretty sure that there's no reports of baby being killed by cat is because no parent would admit that cat was in there with baby.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1379196/Sleeping-cat-suffocates-baby.html

Third hit on Google. Probably more if I could be bothered.

Yanbu. Cats like warmth, and given the choice sleeping near faces for the warm breath. So I wouldn't want a cat in with a newborn for the same reason I wouldn't want pillows or cuddly toys near their head.

40 years ago when people aired their babies outside in sunny weather everyone had cat nets for their prams......did I dream that?

We had a cat net. Was warned by me about risks

this is another troll, right? are you the chocolate poster. this one can't be real

Our 2 cats won't go near DS. They don't even look at him and walk past in disdain. Have done since he was born. Now he is at the grabbing stage they avoid him like the plague.

We put tin foil in the cot before DS1 arrived. Don't know if the cats tried to get in or not but they only did it once if they did. This was recommended to us but I wouldn't have let them sleep near any of the babies even if I hadn't heard about it. Aside from the risk of suffocation, are my cats the only ones who like to dig the occasional claw in to reposition or show love?

Years ago a neighbour who had had a baby, but before I was born had her sleeping baby in the pram in the garden, a cat suffocated that poor baby by lying across her as she slept. To purposely let a cat sleep with your baby is neglect.

I would be more worried about stray hairs.The poor baby wouldnt have a hope.You have to say something,even if its to do with hygiene.Say it cant be very hygenic for the baby.