To leave my baby alone sleeping in the garden every day?

[TiffanyDoggett]

Always in the shade and I check him regularly to make sure he's not crying. I'm no advocate of CIO and it's purely because he sleeps well out there not because I won't hear him (as I suspect in times past it may have been the reason)!

I blame my Mum who always asks why he's napping indoors when she comes round and promptly asks if she can wheel him out in his Pram.

Does anyone else do this regularly?

I’d be terrified to leave my baby outdoors unsupervised. Anything could happen! Abduction is the main concern but also a wasp, choking, crying, etc. My baby is never out of my sight for more than a couple of minutes.

How do you get anything actually done? I think you need to consider whether you are suffering from anxiety to be this paranoid.

I wouldn't do it, but don't think you would be unreasonable to. I kept mine in the same room as me for sleeps until 6 months.

I’d be terrified to leave my baby outdoors unsupervised. Anything could happen! Abduction is the main concern but also a wasp, choking, crying, etc. My baby is never out of my sight for more than a couple of minutes.

Agree this sounds like a massive over reaction even for a PFB.

However this thread has made me realise why my DM always puts my baby outside in the pram when he naps, must be completely normal for her. I have a small yard tho which has no bears, foxes, chemical warfare or potential baby abductors. And I live in da hood.

I think it's helpful for the baby to become acclimatised to the constant sound of the police helicopter hovering overhead.

Also the risk of SIDS is minute!

I've unfortunately been party to some child death overview panels in my time where they review all child deaths. I've never yet come across one case of SIDS that didn't have a mitigating factor like overlaying on a dangerous surface like a sofa etc.

Never seen a case where a normally healthy child is put to sleep in an appropriate bed, on their back, with nothing able to overlay their face.

I honestly don't see the risk in putting them outside in the pram, in the shade and checking them regularly whilst you get in with stuff within earshot.

I used to do this with my baby in winter, can't do it now as my next door neighbour is constantly out mowing, strimimg, hedge cutting and drilling! Oh and their dog now seems to be out Barking all the time!

I'm too scared to do this. Mainly bees and wasps.

Mum did this with me and all 5 of her children, every one of us survived to adulthood. She did use a sunshade and net though, and we were in the garden while she was working in the kitchen so no more than 20 feet away from the pram and visible at a glance.

She also used playpens when we were toddlers, so she could get on with housework. I imagine some twats on MN would suggest Neglect/Abuse........

She also used playpens when we were toddlers, so she could get on with housework. I imagine some twats on MN would suggest Neglect/Abuse........

I love my baby jail, I've been using it in the garden lately with a fitted sheet over the top for shade to stop DD from eating plants/flinging herself off the back step/going head first into the paddling pool. She does get to do those things under supervision but then I need a sit down so into the pen she goes.

He's still very little but as long as you check on him regularly and the garden is secure and there's a cat net on the pram I think it's fine.

Mine went out in the garden all the time in the summer. We had a Labrador at the time who used to sit guard on the pram. When did it stop being normal?

I let mine sleep in the pram in the garden but I either stay outside or park the pram under the kitchen window so I can wash up and supervise.
I wouldn't sit in the living room as ds is still an unpredictable napper and gets grumpy when he wakes up and can't see anyone

I live in Sweden. Yes this is common and we’ve done it a lot (they sleep outdoors in winter at nursery) but:

You don’t leave the baby alone - you have direct eyes/ears on them at all times. That’s not compatible with checking every few mins and wandering off for housework
You have a bug net on in summer
You don’t leave them outside in heat like this
It has to be somewhere safe - people don’t leave babies just anywhere, it’s generally right by the door while you have lunch etc.

It’s much more common in the winter tbh - in the heat we are having they are safer indoors. In winter I used to wrap up and pop them outside down to -20. Slept great!

Unless you have an enormous garden with a 10 minute trek to the pram then of course this is fine imo

Well, at the nursery we used to put them at the top of the garden as far from the building as we could. They got checked once or twice but there were certainly not constant eyes and ears on them - we would be off sluicing nappies, preparing top and tail bowls and making up bottles.

Mine have both slept outside since being tiny. Wrapped up when it's cold and in a vest in summer. Both are excellent sleepers. Both went to nursery as well where they sleep outside. DD nursery had a special verandah built to accommodate the prams.

I'd love to do this but it's fox central around here. I do occasionally leave DD in the entrance hallway of our (three-flat) building rather than lugging the pram up, and sometimes come down to my upstairs neighbour jiggling the pram and singing to her in Cantonese. Not quite the same thing.

I would have let 3 mo to sleep outside in the nice warm weather since born but at the weekend saw a massive rat in the back garden so am far too paranoid now! Won’t even hang the washing out ..

My husband is Scandinavian. I think every child alive from his country has spent 99% of their naps outside. They even do it in Kindergarten!

Absolutely. Just make sure you have a bug net on the pram.

At 3 months I would say the SIDS risk is too high to leave them to sleep alone. You can do other stuff while the baby sleeps in the house. I struggle to see much difference between them sleeping in the garden and them sleeping in the house while you get on with other stuff.

I wouldn't because There isn't any shade in my garden

Don't see a problem if you check often and baby is appropriately dressed in the shade

Meredintof Then maybe you should read up on it?

Where do people live that they have such aggressive cats?? I get a net for wasps/bees/mosquitos etc but cats?

I love my baby jail, I've been using it in the garden lately with a fitted sheet over the top for shade to stop DD from eating plants/flinging herself off the back step/going head first into the paddling pool. She does get to do those things under supervision but then I need a sit down so into the pen she goes. -

DH was a bit when he came home and DS was asleep in the 'garden'. I told him to get a grip because the pram was parked outside the open back door with a net on and I was cleaning the bloody kitchen! It's not even a garden it's a yard! With a 7 foot brick wall surrounding it!

I did this with mine quite often when he was little, just kept the kitchen window open a crack so I could hear him if he stirred.

I did it in winter too if it wasn't raining, (inspired by the Scandinavians). He was well wrapped up and very toasty. Slept like a rock.

So I don't think yabu op, not at all.

The lovely fresh air will do him good, he'll get a bit of vitamin D and hopefully be less prone to allergies when he's older