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Do you put your baby to sleep outside?

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Flamesparrow · 31/03/2006 11:39

House with shrieking toddlers, dry day, and a newborn in need of sleep...

The thread about a nursery putting babies to sleep on the balcony came floating into my head...

DS is now sleeping peacefully all bundled up in a pram in my back garden - and it is the soundest sleep he's had in days! (Would "most sound" be better grammar?)

Away from the noise, getting fresh air - I like this plan.

So can I thank the MNer who sent their child to that nursery??? (Oh, and keeping an eye out for the giant owls wanting to carry him off )

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starlover · 31/03/2006 11:40

yep.. only when at my mum's though as i'm in a flat!

he DOES sleep very well out there tohugh

ghosty · 31/03/2006 11:41

Yes, I would ... in the circumstances you describe and if the baby was warm and dry ...
I wouldn't if it was snowing though

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Flamesparrow · 31/03/2006 11:50

Bit o' snow never hurt no-one... good practise for when he has to walk 10 miles to school in 8ft snow with no shoes

I am slightly paranoid that there'll be a sudden downpour and I won't realise!!!

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starlover · 31/03/2006 11:52

put a tarp over him.. lol

iris66 · 31/03/2006 11:55

absolutely! - especially now it's not freezing out there. I got so sick of having to get all togged up to go out for a walk 3 times a day to get him to sleep until I realised that it was as soon as the fresh air hit him that he went out like a light. Saw some research once that concluded that babies/children who are out in the fresh air for an hour per day (minimum) sleep better at night too.

heavenis · 31/03/2006 11:57

When I was a baby it was the thing people used to do,you'd often see prams outside of houses.

I think your worry about if it rains and you don't notice. It's like all the other one we have,going some where and forgetting the baby, droping them as you carry them down the stairs etc. (or is that just me)

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Flamesparrow · 31/03/2006 12:22

My mum did forget me

I was older than a baby though (about 4)... she went to a friend's for coffee, and I went to play upstairs with the friend's child's toys - apparantly I was a bit too quiet, and she only remembered me as she was getting in the car to leave!!!

(Probably not put anyone's mind at rest about forgetting children!)

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CarolinaMoon · 31/03/2006 12:37

I put ds to sleep outside in the pushchair as often as poss (even in the winter ). He is 17mo now so I am not worried about it like I was when he was tiny.

I'd deffo start doing it asap next time though.

jmum6 · 31/03/2006 12:39

What a great idea - are you allowed to put them right at the bottom of the garden behind the shed though? :o

Ledodgy · 31/03/2006 12:40

Flamesparrow my mil did the opposite of that and one day when out shopping came out of the post office and walked off with a pram went a few 100 metres then realised it was one fo the few days she didn't have one of her six kids with her! She took the baby back and her and the mum laughed about it, imagine if that happened today!

Oblomov · 31/03/2006 12:51

My mum put ds outside soon after he was born - ( born Feb) and I was a bit shocked.
But he loved it and we have continued ever since.
Laugh at starlovers tarp !

Laura032004 · 31/03/2006 12:51

If DS falls asleep in his pram on the way back from somewhere I always leave him outside in it to sleep. However, our back door is in our lounge, so it's quite easy and safe. Used to do it when he was small too. He always slept longer than he would have done otherwise. If I had woken him up and tried to put him in his cot, he would have been wide awake and refused to go back to sleep.

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Flamesparrow · 31/03/2006 13:07

Ledodgy!!!!!!!!!! Can you imagine the other mum's reaction now???

Little man is back in... all snuggly and warm apart from one frozen fist which he'd insisted on sucking!!! Think I'll do it more often - even with just DD home she tends to "love" him just when I've got him settled... she forgets about him if he's not in her line of sight

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kiskidee · 31/03/2006 13:13

dd sleeps in her pushchair for longer if I just park her o/s the front door - in all sorts of weather barring a force 9. I make sure the rain hood is up to shelter from wind and/or rain.

i gardened for 2 whole hours 2 wks ago with her asleep. i put it down to the drone of distant motorway, wind and fresh air.

Wordsmith · 31/03/2006 13:33

Used to do it all the time when they were babies - but only in the summer/reasonably warm weather, with an insect net over the pram.

My mum used to put me outside and only go out to brush the snow off the hood of the pram! As they say, didn't do me any harm.

fennel · 31/03/2006 13:37

mine have all slept outdoors regularly, even in winter. i like to toughen them up . in winter i just make sure they have a warm blanket on top and maybe a raincover if it's raining. they sleep better outdoors, I'm convinced of it.

DP was stolen as a baby in his pram outside a shop. He was eventually found, at the other end of town, stolen by 6 year old girl with a penchant for stealing babies. his mother didn't laugh about it at the time.

Kidstrack2 · 31/03/2006 14:03

yep ds always slept outside in his pram, and when i had dd she was the same slept soundly in the garden for 2hrs in the afternoon!

marilla · 31/03/2006 14:05

My sis lives in norway and often puts hers to sleep outside. It's the done thing, and the rule is they can sleep outside as long as it's not colder than minus 10!

Raggydoll · 31/03/2006 14:23

sometimes the only way i could get ds1 to sleep when he was newborn was to take him a long walk in the pram - once asleep he would be gone for hours - however as he was born in november and he would have got too hot indoors in his snowsuite (and there was no way I was going to risk trying to remove it)so I used to leave him in the garden - yes even when we had about 6 inches of snow . Funny thing was everyone was always commenting on his lovely complexion!! and I was always to embaressed to confess it was because he spent about 3 hours a day napping outside in sub zero temeratures and he'd thus developed farmer like ruddy cheeks .

Tommy · 31/03/2006 14:32

absolutely! Also seems to work better when it's a cold day

jane313 · 31/03/2006 14:43

they do it all the time in scandanavia and its really cold there. I used to do it if he had fallen asleep in his snow suit and I didn't want to risk waking him by taking it off and I didn't want him to overheat having on in a warm house.

fennel · 31/03/2006 14:45

in sweden and norway there are nurseries where the children are outside ALL day even in winter. i find it unbelievable but they think it's good for children to commune with the outdoors.

a friend has moved to Sweden recently and her soft British children are horrified at the amount of outdoor play they have even in snowdrifts.

jane313 · 31/03/2006 14:52

on some architecture programme there was a day nursery in london that was built with no windows just open mesh stuff . They did have a couple of internal rooms too. All the parents had noted their kids had far fewer colds.

jane313 · 31/03/2006 14:54

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Mirage · 31/03/2006 20:11

DD1 slept outside in her pram & dd2 still does.If its wet or snowy,they went in the pram under the lean to.They slept far better outside.

My mum did the same with me & used to put the pram in the stable if the weather was really bad.

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