Too big for Moses basket

[Jac1978]

My baby is getting too big for her Moses basket but is still only three months so we don't want to put her in her big cot which doesn't fit in our room. We have been using a travel cot but I've just been told these aren't suitable for regular use. Does anyone have any suggestions?

If you can borrow a swing crib they are bigger!

She'll be fine in a cot in her own room. Will probably sleep better if she's not bumping up against the sides all the time.

I have a swing crib, DD's arms stick out the bars which is fine but we've had to start using the antiroll thing to stop her moving sideways as she likes to roll her head side to side sometimes in her sleep and she was waking herself up banging her head on the side. Lengthwise she's still got some space though. However, we're going away in a fortnight for a week and were planning to put DD in her travel cot before hand to get her used to it and then possibly keep her in it for at least another month until she moves into her own room. Where or who is the advice from on duration of travel cot use? I'd be interested to read it. My nephew slept in a travel cot for well over a year as he was a twin and they couldn't fit another big cot in the room but that was 5 years ago.

You can pick up swinging cribs quite cheap, i wouldn't recommend her own room just yet as guidance suggests baby's are better/safer in with parents for 6 months.

We bought a spacesaver cot from kiddicare when ds outgrew the basket. It was pretty cheap and came in a package with mattress and bedding. Ds is now in his own room but I moved the small cot downstairs and now use it for naps or as a mini play pen it's about 2/3rds the size of a normal cot I would reckon and has been great for us. You can probably get them everywhere just google spacesaver or compact cot.

Co sleep?

We're just getting to this point at 14wks. I'm going to use a travel cot with insert. I did with my other 2 and they're fine. Why shouldn't they be used regularly, the position is the same as a normal cot. I wouldn't put DD in her own room just yet. My older 2 were about 1yr when they went in their own rooms

I used the travel cot also for DD but they are not brilliant for your back so I would be wary of using them regularly. Because the base is so low and the sides so high its impossible to lift safely. Fine every now and again but I wouldn't do it every day. I never had an insert though, just a small mattress on base maybe an insert makes it a bit higher and easier.

Is it because of the mattress that travel cots aren't advised long term? Just wondering if you can buy different mattresses for them. A swinging crib held my fairly-large ds for 7 months, but he was quite slow to sit up himself (as it's then they need a cot). It's up to you but the advice would not be for a 3 month old to sleep in another room.

The insert makes it much easier than my normal cot (raises the height). You can take the mattress out to wash but also can get spare ones online.

Tbh we cosleep for the most part anyway.

If her cot doesn't fit in your room, can you fit another bed into her room? When my DS outgrew his moses basket, we couldn't fit his cot in our room so I slept in a single bed in his room next to his cot.