Sleeping babies at nursery

[ashinyhappyperson]

I'm currently developing our outdoor sleep area in the baby room. For our under 9 month olds I'm hoping to purchase some baby hammocks and for the 9 months to 2 years babies I want to purchase flat backed wooden prams, but I can't find them anywhere. Can anyone help? Does your child's nursery do this? And also what do mums think about outdoor sleeping?

SLEEPING OUTSIDE? ABSOLUTELY FAB BUT YOU WONT BE ABLE TO WAKE THEM. ITS THE BEST. CANT THE BABIES SLEEP ON A SURFACE LIKE BED ROLL MATS?

I know that babies sleep outside a lot in Scandinavian nurseries to that might be a good pointer for internet searching. If you can find sites with English language bits that is!

What a lovely idea, have been thinking about this for my setting so will watch with interest!

Happy with outdoor sleeping, but might have concerns about the style of hammocks - are mattresses/hammocks easily changable/washable etc.

Thanks for all of your comments guys. The hammocks I've been looking at have wooden frames and the material bit is made of cotton. The actual hammock can be washed and be interchangable, so a clean hammock can be used for each baby. As for the pram mattresses, clean cotton sheets would be used for each baby.

Sorry (I'm a Mum and a registered childminder) but I wouldn't like to leave my child sleeping outdoors.

I totally agree Scarfmaker, I would never leave a baby to sleep outdoors either, my sleep area is always supervised x

From my POV, if the outside sleeping area is covered over with a sun canopy or parasol etc then yes it wouldn't be a problem for me. (mainly to protect from sun and getting burnt)
I would worry about the safety though. My 6mth old is wriggly in his sleep now so at 8mths well.....

As long as all that is ok then fine with me

Did you manage to find your baby hammocks? I am intrigued as to where you bought them?

What a lovely idea! My baby sleeps in the garden (obv in her pram, not in the flowerbeds!) quite often. How brilliant for the children-imagine dozing in the lovely fresh air. So much nicer than a stuffy nap room.

The nursery I used had an outdoor sleeping area with a solid roof and they used lovely big old silver cross prams for the babies and they were strapped in. Each baby was allocated one pram and sheets were changed each week. DD slept in a lovely dark blue silver cross.
We used to send in snowsuits in the winter, the pram shelter was through a french window from the babyroom so the moment a baby woke the staff knew.

This is the hammock we use and I can't recommend them highly enough:

www.naturessway.co.nz/Baby+Hammocks.html