SIDS risks for babies during daytime naps?

[BEAUTlFUL]

I was just watching this brilliant lecture on bed-sharing, and it reassured me because DS2 sleeps in his cot right alongside my side of the bed, which is v good for night-time safety.

But what about when he has daytime naps, or when I put him to bed at 7pm, then don't come up to sleep myself till 11pm or later?

Does anyone have any thoughts? I like the convenience of DS2 having a 2-hour nap at lunchtime in his cot, upstairs, because I have work to do; and I like the child-free evenings when he is asleep upstairs... But am I putting him at risk?

What would be safest? I'm guessing a sling? But is that workable? He is 4 months old!

Any thoughts or tips would be fab. Thanks, wonderful, wise Mumsnetters xx

My baby sleeps in her cot with a movement sensor monitor for her daytime naps and from about 7-10.30pm. When we go upto bed we give her a dream feed, check nappy and transfer her to a crib in our room. We don't bed share though so I don't know if what I have just said is entirely helpful. It is safest for baby to sleep in their own bed in your room for the first 6m

Until they are 6 months old my babies sleep (day & night) in the smae room as me or dh. We have a moses basket we use downstairs for daytime & evening naps.

A movement (or lack of movement, rather) sensor may well be the answer to this worry of yours
they're ultra-sensitive, and if the baby stops breathing/moving for (i think) 20 seconds, an alarm goes off....i think it's called Angelcare, off the top of my head

I have the Tommee Tippee one for 5.5mo DD and it is very reassuring. Addictive though. I have to have the ticking turned up really loud or I can't sleep!

I just have a normal monitor. Baby sleeps in my room but I have curtained off half of it as we both sleep better that way - I put her to bed and then go downstairs with the monitor - am I doing something wrong?

I have a Respisense monitor, that clips to his nappy and clicks. It also buzzes his tummy (like a mobile phone vibration thing) if he doesn't move for v10 seconds.

Like the idea of using his Moses basket for naps.

Thanks girls!

Minster, what will you use for naps when DS outgrows the Moses basket? I have been wondering the same, i.e. is it safe to leave DS in a room alone during the daytime/evening and decided not so he now naps in the sling (which he didn mostly anyway!) or in the moses basket or pram. He's almost outgrown the Moses basket (he's 14 weeks) so will probably have to nap in pushchairs unless anyone else how any suggestions? Find anything on SIDS terrifying - have got to the point where I don't like even leaving the room to go to the loo or do the washing up! Also, how on earth do all these books which recommend a routine for naps and bedtime of the baby sleeping in their own room comply with SIDS advice?

BEAUTIFUL- put your baby upstairs, put a monitor on, come downstairs and enjoy what time you have to yourself...once teething starts or if you have another baby etc you will be so glad of whatever free time you have. If a child is happy sleeping in a cot or moses basket then you are lucky because may babies won't

SIDS is a scary thing- anything involving losing a child is but you have to get it in perspective. Most mothers check regularly to see if their babies are breathing (still doing it with DD2) but considering using a sling while a baby is quite happy in a basket/cot is madness. Slings are great in all sorts of situations but your baby will become a toddler and you will want them to have good sleeping habits, believe me.

I agree with Mrs Macaroom - there is a line between following sensible guidelines to minimise the risk and worrying ourselves silly. Make sure baby is on his back, on a breathable mattress, not too hot and in no danger of burying face in anything too soft, then leave him to sleep, take a monitor downstairs and check him every so often. Not having your baby in front of you every minute of every day and night is OK.

My friend's sister died from SIDS so when she had her own DD she was totally paranoid - she had one of those ticking response monitors for the first six months and it reassured her immensely. DD is two next month and I want to check her during naps and before I go to bed because I can't quite believe how soundly she sleeps.

Do they have rockers here? We had a great one that had a harness. DS would either sleep in the hugabub through the day or if I needed to put him down in the rocker in the lounge room (usually with a cat draped over his legs).

Night time I would put him in his cot in our room with the baby monitor on (just the noise one not the movement sensor one) kept the door open and always made plenty of noise around the place.

Agree that SIDS is bloody terrifying.