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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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CarolinaMooncup · 01/04/2006 13:07

That nursery sounds fab jane (it's even got a yurt, just like MN ). Wouldn't it be v expensive to heat though?

dyzzidi · 01/04/2006 13:28

I put dd out to sleep all the time. Our patio doors from lounge lead out to the garden so I can keep an eye on her. I usually put the raincover on as one of the neighbour has a cat.
I think all babies need fresh air and she loves it sleeps for much longer than left indoors.

charliemouse2 · 01/04/2006 13:54

Hadn't occurred to me to do this, but have been encouraged by this thread to give it a go now it's not so cold. Have French windows from lounge to garden so would be pretty safe.
I had read about people doing this in the 'olden days' but assumed no-one would do it nowadays because of safety issues (i.e. people nicking the baby!). Probably my paranoia would mean I would be checking him loads more than I do when he's upstairs in his cot with the breathing monitor on.

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juuule · 01/04/2006 19:44

Midwife told me years ago that the only weather not to put baby out in is fog. Have put my babies out to sleep in all weathers.

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jane313 · 02/04/2006 19:18

caroline I think they only heated the internal rooms not the main nursery. They just dressed warmly I think.

peaches27 · 04/04/2006 21:42

I thought about this last week with my granddaughter. A walk in the fresh air last week really knocked her out. I would like to leave her at the back door in her pram, but we live in a traditional terraced style house where the entry is used by 4 houses to get to their back doors. We are next to the entry, so I wouldnt leave her outdoors unless I was staying at the kitchen sink for any length of time (and that is just not me!), so I guess I will wait for the summer when we can leave the back door open.

lazycow · 05/04/2006 09:37

Would definitely have done this if I had a garden and if ds had slept in a pram much. However he was the odd baby who hours of walking would maybe induce a light 20 minute nap if you were lucky if not lucky you just got a really unhappy baby crying a lot from overstimulation.

He had to sleep indoors in a quiet dark place (usually his cot) cot so I'd have loved to be able to do this but never did apart from a couple of memorable occasions at my parents when my dad happily walked ds around the garedn in his pram for about 1 hr and he did then sleep for 40 mins but that was it.

In his cot though I often got 2-3 hrs sleep.

notasheep · 05/04/2006 10:09

ds loved it

robinpud · 05/04/2006 10:45

Ds born in Feb went to sleep in pram on way to Nursery for dd and stayed by front door or at bottom of garden until picking up time 2 hours later. Always put mine in garden until they were big. When he was older he would lie on a blanket under a shady tree for a nap. Fresh air is the business.

themoon66 · 05/04/2006 11:46

I live in a very rural area with no neighbours and I would put my DS out to sleep regularly. An old lady passing by one day knocked on my door and said very sternly to me 'do you know your baby is out there screaming?'. I said, yes thank you, that's why he is out there.'

madmarchhare · 05/04/2006 12:32

Yes, you MUST watch out for the owls.

compo · 05/04/2006 12:34

We did this all the time. We'd go out and if ds was asleep when we came back we'd leave him in his pushchair outside. Only pain was that it was hard to get on and do things as I constantly kept looking out the window to check he was still there!! If the weather was awful we'd carry the pushchair into the kitchen

zippitippitoes · 05/04/2006 12:38

I think it's great, and they are't any colder than if you were pushing them along!

MrsDoolittle · 05/04/2006 13:06

Dd was born Easter weekend two years ago, the weather was gorgeous most of the summer. I always put her to sleep outside and she would sleep soundly. She loves being outside now, infact she would be out in all weathers and usually cries when she has to come in.

Ds (7 weeks) is outside now in his pram and sleeping soundly. The poor mite has horrible baby spots, I haven't been able to put him outside much until now. I hope it will help clear up his complexion.

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