Baby Hammock

[Kizzygirly]

Anyone have any thoughts on combining the use of a baby hammock with a moses basket/travel cot?

I have one child already who has had real issues with sleeping. Therefore I looked up a lot about sleeping options for the one I am expecting now. I decided on a baby hammock. My concern was then that as the hammock is not practically portable.

I had my son in a moses basket downstairs for his naps as a new born or in his pram. I also spend a lot of nights at the in laws and they use a travel cot. Would this undo any good work done by the hammock as these solid, flat surfaces would be quite different from the hammock therefore would the new baby go from all day time lay downs and one/two night(s) a week in a cot/moses basket to the other nights at home in a hammock and still benefit from the hammock. I cant afford to buy a hammock for at my in laws, my living space and my folks house and still if we travel elsewhere we will have a problem.

Therefore once I saw the following... Fisher Price Rock 'n Play www.1stbabyshop.co.uk/catalogue/bouncers-and-rockers/3861.php I have to think it is the solution. It is good for sleep (so naps and travel nights sorted) and works same as a baby bouncer (so good for while baby awake) and is still curled around the baby and cuddly and would allow self soothe (as a hammock does)and therefore may aid the help with sleep that I hope to achieve from the hammock.

My question is therefore, has anyone had a Rock 'n Play Sleeper or baby hammock or both and have any thoughts before I purchase the Rock 'n Play instead of a similar money on a new mattress etc... for my moses basket.

Am I just over thinking and actually babies move from one to the other fine.

Fisher Price Rock 'n Play
www.1stbabyshop.co.uk/catalogue/bouncers-and-rockers/3861.php

Hammock (similar to the Amby but no where near the cost)
www.amby.co.uk

Hi Kizzy
That fisher price rocker looks great, but looks like it wouldn't last long, although it says until baby can sit up - so that's the same as any hammock I suppose.

I got my Amby off ebay. Honestly, it was the best money I ever spent. It's now travelling round the family going from one cousins new born to the other. It's a fabulous product and SO easy to put up and down to be transportable. You really can put it up in less than a minute.
HTH

The trouble is when I was looking for them second hand online I looked for ages and could not find one less than a hundred or more which I just did not have to justify. Therefore I bought a cheaper brand. Its ok in all other ways but it would take an age to take up and down each time and is not easy in my small house to move up and down stairs without smashing the place up.

If you had good results from your AMBY did you have the baby in another cot ever? Did it go in the mosses basket or anything much in the day or did you just move the AMBY down to the living space? If I were to go away on holiday for a long weekend or something then I would take the hammock with us but other than that the 15 min wrestle to get it down in its travel case is just not worth it.

Thanks for instilling some confidence in the hammock though I don?t know anyone who has had one and could only go on the blurb on websites.