To think we can have a Moses basket from the start?

[Islandsspa]

Looking at Next to Me/bedside cribs but not sure about the longevity of them for the price you pay. We are having a full size cotbed in the nursery and a Moses basket for downstairs.

I don’t want to co-sleep anyway so the side down feature of a bedside crib is surely a bit redundant for us. I will however be breastfeeding if I can.

AIBU to just buy one of those larger Moses baskets with an extra stand for upstairs? I am thinking we can buy a bedside crib secondhand once baby is here if we feel we really need one?

They are fine. Mine went into their own rooms very early as it was a tiny house and every little snuffle woke us up when they were in the room. It really is a matter of personal preference

I had a Moses basket for all my babies. I put it in the cot at bedtime. Just make sure you grab both handles when moving it. When my youngest was a baby, I was so tired I dropped one of the handles when moving him to the bbedroom He rolled right out and ended up face down in the hallway. No lasting damage as far as I can tell😄

I had a Moses basket from birth for both my DC. Fabulous for moving the baby around from room to room. Then they moved into a cot when they outgrew it.

You only need look at them... you don't need me to spell it out.

Neither of mine would sleep in the moses basket, but stayed in the next to me until 7 and 10 months - I've still got it and want to get rid so feel free to message with your location and if you're nearby, it's yours!

They just sit on their stand, it's at bed level, you just reach over, pick the baby up and everything's fine. Nothing unsafe about them at all.

Wouldn't suggest climbing a step ladder with a kid in one, but on the whole, there's nothing dangerous about them.

I have a Next2Me, I don't like it for how I do parenting! I've never used it as a side car sleeper, I prefer to breast feed sitting up in bed so the ability to put them down more easily is a bit lost on me. To me, it's just a bit over engineered and it hurts like a b*tch if you stub your toe on the wheel.
I used it for my first son but this time round I've gone Moses basket for the first 10 weeks then travel cot. If my bedroom was large enough I would have just set the big cot up in there for 10 weeks to 6 months.
But, everyone is different and it's hard to know what's going to work best for you before you try. So maybe get these Moses basket and just go from there!

Well I need you to!

We had a Moses basket and a little rocking crib for our room - when he was tiny he went in the Moses basket in the crib, then when he outgrew the basket, he was just in the crib, then eventually in a cot-bed in his own room. We used the Moses basket for naps downstairs too. He was a dreadful sleeper so actually a lot of the time we slept in shifts with one of us awake and holding him sleeping on our chests. I really regretted the crib especially - I wished we’d had some kind of next to me bed so we could have co-slept without him actually in our bed (we didn’t co-sleep as I was on medication that meant it would have been unsafe to have him in our bed). If we’d had another, that’s what we’d have done.

Just to say, you may have no intention of co-sleeping, but your baby may have other ideas. 😬I would get a next-to-me crib just in case! As PPs have said, it also makes it much easier to get them up and put them back down when breastfeeding in the night.

Neither of my two would sleep in their Moses basket.

We had a full size cot which turned into a cot bed, in our bedroom. Didn't waste money on anything else for baby to sleep in. They've never needed to sleep in anything else, except pushchair when we went out.

I had a moses basket in the very early days. I found it tricky to transfer her as she'd fall asleep on the breast and not like being disturbed. So i got a Snuzpod and it meant I could feed her in it as I lay next to her and then roll away myself when she feel asleep. Massive game changer. I had no intention of cosleeping but it got me so much more sleep I did it with both my babies. Echo previous posters advice to think about how you would cosleep safely, i think most parents will end up doing it but unplanned can mean its done unsafely (eg falling asleep on sofas etc)

Why? I can’t think of a reason why not - they have handles.

all of mine were in a Moses basket for a few weeks.

Personally I preferred the next to me to the moses basket BUT this is irrelevant and this -

I am thinking we can buy a bedside crib secondhand once baby is here if we feel we really need one?

Is absolutely true and sensible! People spend so much on baby stuff just in case they need it - you're absolutely right that if the moses basket doesn't work for you you can figure out something else at that stage.

We had a Moses basket and then a big cot in his room. He was so long he grew out of it at 4 weeks and I then bought a tutti bambini version of a next to me as the big cot bed won’t fit in our room. He is 4 months now and I am happy with the next to me. It’s not co sleeping but so useful to just reach over pick him up and straight on the breast. And should last until he is old enough to go in his own room but I will probably use it until he is over the weight limit

I think the PP must mean with the baby in the Moses basket at the time.

Yes, so you pick up the basket by the handles with the baby inside and take it upstairs, supporting the underneath.
I must have done it hundreds of times with my children.

I couldn't get my babies in the next to me crib or a basket, or a sleepyhead, or much of anything. For a lot of the time they were next to me on the bed because it was the only place I could get them to go (and even that took a serious amount of effort).

What do you understand by “co-sleep”?
My understanding is that SIDS guidance says the baby should sleep overnight in the same room as you for the first few months, something to do with your breathing regulating theirs. But you don’t need to have your bed and their bed linked.

Were you planning to put the baby in their own room overnight from day 1?

If you have space just put the big cot in your bedroom. There’s no reason why they can’t be in that from the start.

Moses basket fine, but why buy a 2nd? Just move it upstairs in evening. That’s all we ever had. I wouldn’t decide too much in advance though, and I don’t understand people buying stuff in advance of baby arriving safe and well.

By co sleep I mean, them being in your bed with you.

Of course they will be in our room until six months, probably older.

Moses basket from great from day one....used it next to bed...so easy

Can you get the cot into your room? If you van I'd do that and forget buying multiple other beds.