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Original poster

To leave dd (3 weeks) to sleep in the garden?

45 replies

raisingrrrl · 15/03/2009 16:03

In her pram, obviously. And well wrapped up.

Have just had really mad conversation with MIL who said, "What if someone steals her?" Um, I'm sat by the open back door, so I can hear her cry and unless my neigbours have a sudden desire to steal my baby (unlikely) then the risk's fairly small, tbh.

Am I mad? Or is she??

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bronze · 15/03/2009 16:04

sounds alright to me. Fresh air will be good for her

nametaken · 15/03/2009 16:04

As long as you can see her and she's nice and warm then an hour in the garden would be fine I'd have thought.

Coldtits · 15/03/2009 16:05

YANBU

I couldn't have done it though. You are very brave. She's probably perfectly safe, but I was neurotic.

Is she your first? I will spontaneously combust with shock if she's your first baby!

violethill · 15/03/2009 16:05

YANBU

Nabster · 15/03/2009 16:06

As long as you can see her all the time and she is warm and covered, then no problem.

Makes a change from MIL saying babies should be sleeping in the garden as that is what they did.

Original poster
raisingrrrl · 15/03/2009 16:06

LOL Colditz - she's the SNC, of course!

PFB is having his nap tucked up in his bed!

I think MIL may be worried I'm not bonding with dd, as I'm not hideously neurotic as overprotective as I was with ds!

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raisingrrrl · 15/03/2009 16:07

Nabster - funnily enough, with ds she told me he wasn't getting enough fresh air!

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CantSleepWontSleep · 15/03/2009 16:07

Not at all. Ds is currently sleeping in his pushchair in the garden, whilst I MN in the breakfast room overlooking him.

nikkid21 · 15/03/2009 16:07

YANBU - i used to do that all of the time with both of mine. We lock the front door in the summer when we are in the back garden and children are in bed but that's it security wise.

Blondeshavemorefun · 15/03/2009 16:11

yanbu

fresh air is good

as long as no one can enter your garden then baby will be fine, but obv keep an eye out

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raisingrrrl · 15/03/2009 16:13

I can see her from where I am sat MNing! When she fell asleep in the pram I was pottering about the garden, then I went inside to do the washing up (she was still visible and audible) - she was maybe out of my direct line of sight for about 1 minute, while I went to put some washing in the machine.

I may go and get her in in a minute though, as the evening chill is setting in, and now the sun's gone off the garden it's not nearly so nice and warm! Hope the rest of the summer is like this though - it's been lovely today!

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Nabster · 15/03/2009 16:16

PAPMH

I would have had to go and check her after being out of sight for one minute.

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raisingrrrl · 15/03/2009 16:17

Nabster - I did, I've been checking on her every 10-15 minutes!

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Nabster · 15/03/2009 16:18

That was Panicky And Paranoid Mummy Here by the way.

Saggarmakersbottomknocker · 15/03/2009 16:21

She'll be fine

I used to do this alot. dh had a panic once mind you when ds2 had been asleep in the garden - a little while later I took him off to the baby clinic. I'd told dh but you know what they can be like - not listening. He went out to check and of course the pram was gone. He dialled 999 and we had a full blown police presence in the street. I strolled back just in time for them to stop the launch of the helicopter. He's never lived it down!

paddingtonbore · 15/03/2009 16:24

I wish I'd done this much sooner with my PFB, but I was too neurotic. It turns out she always sleeps much better outdoors.

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raisingrrrl · 15/03/2009 16:31

Roffle @ Saggar's dh! Poor bloke - were the police sympathetic or did they take the piss?

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SparklyGothKat · 15/03/2009 16:36

pmsl @sagger's DH...

lottiejenkins · 15/03/2009 16:36

We used to leave ds out in his pram out in the garden to sleep a lot, one afternoon we took him out of his pram and put him straight in car (without putting pram in house) While we were out it started to rain! Our lovely next door neighbour but one had been upstairs and came round to check ds wasnt in the pram in the rain!!

sobanoodle · 15/03/2009 17:05

It's no different to taking them out for a walk, is it ? Nobody would bat an eyelid at a 3wk old being wheeled in a pram would they ?

Saggarmakersbottomknocker · 15/03/2009 17:31

They were very sweet, all things considered.

MollieO · 15/03/2009 17:54

I did with my first and only and in the rain (with a raincover obviously).

TheRealMrsJohnSimm · 15/03/2009 18:52

I've done it with both DCs and don't see a problem if, as others have said, your garden is secure and you can see the pram from the house and check them regularly.

Am ROFLing at Saggar's DH though . Poor guy - imagine the panic he must have felt.

pooka · 15/03/2009 18:55

YANBU.

But I am reminded of my PFB reaction to dh leaving dd in the sun (she was born in JUly) without remembering that the sun moves. She was a bit pink when I realised.

bellavita · 15/03/2009 19:01

Tis nice for babies to have fresh air, especially on lovely days like today.

I always used to put mine out the back in their prams when they were babies (I could see them obviously).