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 think the cats cuddling up to babies and smothering them is a bit of an old wife''s tale. I don't know anyone that actually used the cat nets they bought to protect their babies from the cats, as the cats always steered clear from the noisy interlopers!

Angelic my Mum found a cat curled up in my pram when I was an infant. She certainly used cat nets after that as has everyone in the family since.

I put my youngest in the enclosed back yard . I have a massive coachbuilt pram , it's absolutely huge and it's like a bed in wheels . Outside is definitely where he sleeps best .

My DD is a week old today and has slept outside in her pram a couple of times already. Usually I'm pottering in the garden or just in the kitchen or we've just come back from walking the dogs and she's hard and fast asleep so not going to wake her just to put her inside.

The fresh air does them so much good. We have a completely enclosed garden where no one can see in - a bug net sounds a good idea though.

My 17 month old has slept outside probably most days for a large part of his life, sun, rain and snow.

Great being outside but I'd need to be in viewing distance.

Did this with ds2 in the mid 1990s. One memorable day we had gone out taking DS with us but leaving the pram in the garden. An hour later there was an absolute downpour. Our neighbour was looking out of her bedroom window and rushed round thinking DS was still in his pram!!!

Perfectly fine as lo g as you are happy with security of garden. Always had mine outdoors to sleep when little. Ways had a cat net on pram to stop cats from making a bed on top of baby or pouncing on if making baby grunts etc.

I recently posted about this elsewhere, my FIL is absolutely beside himself that I dont leave her in the garden, or even have her in the garden with me without a net over her. He worries that crows will peck her eyes out and kill her. Tbf we have many lambs killed by crows taking their eyes. I asked if he was being ridiculous/over cautious and someone told me how another farmer at market only had one eye as a crow pecked it out when he was a baby in his pram in the garden...

Ive bought a net 😂

Why is it weird to do it in the UK?

It was normal practice a generation ago, both in summer and on reasonable days in winter, if you had a garden. Still normal for many people.
And even after they wake, babies usually enjoy looking up at trees and clouds, etc. Nature's mobiles!

I'm laughing hard at TSSDNCOP's typo, it's the best I've seen here

I would do the same Tiffany outdoor sleeping is just different, seems so much deeper and more peaceful.

I used to do it with mine. The youngest is 16.

Angelic I put my sleeping small DD (pre-rolling) down on the sofa on her back while I popped to the bathroom. Came back and the cat was curled up on her chest - that's where the suffocation risk is

We did it too, even in the depths of winter, all wrapped up in the pram and cozy.

Kids seemed to benefit from it (and me too!)

My baby is never out of my sight for more than a couple of minutes.

I actually think that is a little bit sad. Mine generally napped in their rooms during the day, baby monitor on and I could get on with everything else I needed to do, including going in the garden to peg pit washing. They rarely napped outdoors because, at the time, my neighbours on both sides smoked heavily in their gardens and it stank (one of them smoked weed a lot too).

My cat used to sleep on the floor next to the cot and would come and get me if baby woke up and puss didn’t think I was getting upstairs to them quick enough!

Not in this heat, no way.

that's how I was raised

I think its a super idea. Los of fresh air, and a vanishingly unlikely risk of abduction or bear/asteroid attacks. I would put my kid to sleep in the garden, but at 15, she insists on letting herself back in and going to her room.

Pottering around indoors while baby sleeps indoors too is a bit different from baby being outdoors while you're indoors. Basically because the garden isn't secure.

I wouldn't do it. Stray cats and foxes could pounce.

Talk less of insect stings.

I so wish i could do this but next doors dog won't shut the f up!

I used to let our DD sleep outside in her pram!!! Do whatever suites you x hugs good luck

I did it for every daytime nap for every child (four of them) whatever the weather (except fog). But I did have a great big silver cross pram. They slept so well until they were over 3. Eldest is now nearly 40 and youngest is nearly 30. Just seemed natural to me!

Why except fog busy? A few people have mentioned this and I don’t understand it.