MOSES OR CRIB TO START??

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Do we buy a moses baket or a wooden crib type to start before baby goes into a cot? I AM SOO CONFUSED OVER THIS?
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Moses Basket. When we brought DS home from the hospital he was sooooo tiny and sooooo overwhelmed by this ENORMOUS crib that on day 2 we went a brought a moses basket to put inside the crib.

He's still tiny.

Moses baskets are easy to grab & move from room to room during the day, then upstairs at night.

We got given a very nice moses basket, but neither of our dc would sleep in it. Can't say I blame them, it just didn't look at all comfortable, very small and unstable-seeming with a mattress made of thin crappy padding.

Have never had a crib but presumably they are a bit more solid with better mattresses and will fit the baby a little longer, being slightly bigger?

There is actually no reason why you need either tbh; if you can fit a cot in your room, it is fine for the baby to sleep in the cot from day one. We have the Cosatto bedside cot for dc2 and adore it, makes night feeds and cuddles hugely easier and less tiring. I really wish someone had told us about that option before we had our first baby.

Genuinely surprised, TTTT -- was the baby really overwhelmed by being in a crib? Surely a newborn isn't even aware of a bed being too big as long as it's cosy?

As for moving the baby around, I guess it depends where you live -- we are in a smallish flat so no need to carry baby from room to room during sleeps. Ours both slept happily on a dedicated section of the sofa in the early weeks when they were very tiny; so they were either there, or in the bedroom ...

OP, I think the short answer is it's trial and error, different for everyone!

I vote for moses basket. Really liked being able to move the baby around with me from room to room.

I'm having DC3 and need to buy a new one - have settled on the Mothcare snug: (www.mothercare.com/Mothercare-The-Snug-Moses-Basket/dp/B0030SQWS8?_encoding=UTF8&) as it looks more substantial than some.

Very personal decision though, many frineds went with a cot/crib!

i had neither mainly due to cost and space, and was expecting a big baby and didn't want too much clutter that he grew out of that needed storing/selling after a few months. he went in a bedside cot with a bumper down the side was was cosy/snuggly enough. had a baby bouncer/chair for downstairs that was easy to move around and he could sleep/doze/nap in.
however, am looking at the fabric crib for dc3 that folds up, from babiesrus, cause we can't get a cot in our new bedroom.