Crib etc for newborn downstairs with a toddler?

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With my first, he just slept on me on the sofa in-between feeds or I'd sometimes put him in the pram bassinet on the floor if he let me! I didn't have a separate Moses basket or anything. Now he's a toddler it's a different ball game I imagine and there won't be the long lazy days on the sofa with a newborn spent snoozing on me!? Do I need something out of reach of a toddler - what did you use for naps with a newborn with a toddler around?

I've bought a moses basket for this one for exactly that same worry- DD went in the pram carrycot too but I think the temptation to wheel her sibling round will be too great 😂. I guess it will be the travel cot zone of safety once we've outgrown the moses basket but I don't seem to have big babies so hopefully it will last a while. I got one of the Moby (?) ones, bought out by Tommy tippee, that looks like a laundry basket as I thought it might do for toy storage or similar after if I can't find anyone to pass it on to!

I also plan to use the sling that I didn't use much for DD but I know there will be plenty of times where being able to plop the baby down somewhere safe for a minute will be invaluable!

We used a Tiny Love Rocker Napper - it’s a baby chair that can lie completely flat in a Moses basket style (I can never manage to do links here, but google it!). She slept really comfortably in it, and it didn’t take up too much space, didn’t need separate stand etc.

A few of my friends used travel cots in their living rooms. Quite a good idea as it doubled up as a play pen once they were a bit bigger and mum had a chore/toilet etc.

We used the tiny love rockers for our dts.

I had a moses basket but it was quite low, felt like I was constantly watching to make sure dd1(2.5 years) wasn't putting something in her cot or being too rough. At 7 weeks ending up putting a travel cot up, with a bassinet. Harder for dd 1 to reach her, although she's now figured if she uses one her chairs she can see and slightly reach into her cot.

His bouncy chair, his playmat, the pram. Sometimes I managed to get him to actually stay asleep in the crib upstairs ( I was never told that baby needed to be in the same room as me when asleep, I'm not sure that was the given advice back then before anyone tells me he should have been with me)
DS1, who was 2.2 when DS2 was born, learned quite quickly that it was better to leave the baby to sleep rather than poke him and wake him up. It meant him and Mummy could do some "big boy" things while baby was asleep.