How do I keep the cat off the baby?

[HomeIsWhereTheGinIs]

We have a cat that we absolutely dote upon and I'm pregnant with our first child. We plan to put the baby in our room when it's first born but I'm a little concerned about keeping the cat from sleeping on the baby. The cat has always slept on our bed and I'd like to allow it to continue to do so.

Any ideas on how best to go about doing this? Has anyone found a crib with bars on the top (no cracks about "caging the baby" please!) or similar? What did you do? Or did you all evict the cats?

[fluffyraggies]

when i say 'they have their own beds on the landing' - i mean cat beds

(in case any of you pictured us with human's single beds just for the cats at the top of the stairs )

[Wolfiefan]

2 cats here. Cats don't go in the bedroom of DCs. We shut them out of ours when baby in our room. I'm not at all convinced that a net would stop a cat. Sorry.

[volvocowgirl]

hubbahubster - further tests on the baby in that Telegraph article later revealed the baby had died from sudden infant death syndrome and the cat had got in afterwards.

[Dolallytats]

When DS, now 5 was born we used to put things in his cot/pram to stop the cats (we had 4 at the time) from sitting in them. The cats did not seem to be interested in him at all.

Then we discovered that the eldest cat was actually sleeping at the bottom of his cot at night-and was totally uninterested in him. She never bothered him.

The 2 cats we still have now both tend to sleep at the bommom of his bed now, but again never actually bother him.