Where to put the baby to sleep during the day

[Barefootcontessa84]

Practical answers needed! I live in a maisonette, so front door is on the ground floor with a small hallway. You go straight up the stairs onto the first floor. Nursery is on the first floor. Our bedroom is on the second floor.

I intend to get a snuzpod for next to the bed, and I'm aware babies shouldn't sleep alone at all for the first six months - that means I need something for downstairs. I know the snuzpod comes off the stand and can be used downstairs, but this means carrying it down a flight of stairs everyday - I will be having a c-section. Is it light enough to do this? Any experience?

I hear people also put the baby down in the pram. Mine will be left in the hallway on the ground floor, so would either require leaving the baby down there, or lugging the carry cot up the stairs. Also, should the baby sleep in a pram? Bugaboo have suggested to me they shouldn't sleep in them for long periods.

So two options - but keep thinking I need something more convenient to have on the first (main) floor during the day. People tend to think Moses baskets are a waste of money? Though is it worth getting one? Or is it a waste of money to have bought the snuzpod and not use it downstairs as it is designed to do?

Sorry long post - probably overthinking this! Any thoughts/experience welcome

Might suggest respectfully that you don't overplan this one. Whatever you go for baby might not sleep in it anyway! Not helpful . DD slept in pram (bugaboo), fisher price newborn-toddler chair, playmat, sleepyhead and on me with no particular pattern.

This is great advice - thank you! Don't want to buy too much in case she doesn't like my offerings !

Naps in living room on sheepskin rug which is playmat also. Rug can be lifted onto sofa if your sitting there also and want to pat to soothe asleep or on floor fine. Can add sheepskin to pram when freezing outside, can hang over sofa arm out the way when not used, and can use as normal rug as they grow

Mainly used a bouncy chair that could be adjusted to almost flat for naps in the living room in the early days. Or if I was going to sleep too used Moses basket for baby next to my bed.

I had a section and carried my Moses basket downstairs every day then back up again at night no bother
My friend had a Moses basket downstairs and a Chico next to me upstairs

It's all preference but there is no reason why you can't carry whatever you have downstairs (assuming it's not too heavy) after a section

My DS sleeps in a Moses basket in the living room for naps during the day as bedrooms are upstairs.
He's 2 months but already quite tall so we're planning for him to nap in his travel cot when he outgrows it.

I have a Snuzpod. It's quite long so actually quite difficult to carry the top. It's also probably too heavy for you to carry post section (I didn't have one so I'm not sure).

I definitely wouldn't recommend carrying it with the baby in it, which means a journey up and down twice to get baby as well (IYKWIM).

I use a sling or a swing chair for the baby. But I have a 2 year old so she needs to be out of dangers way!!

Sorry if someone has already mentioned this but check out the toddlepod. I got one and just laid it on the sofa. We had he same set up as you and didn't really want to leave him sleeping in the downstairs hall. On the top floor in our bedroom we had the nct bednest which I highly recommend. On the main floor where his room was we had the toddlepod which was on the floor or sofa. At about 5 month I moved him so he was napping in his cot.

We had a Snuzpod and I had a section, there's no way I could have carried it up and down the stairs every day. It's pretty cumbersome.

Newborns tend to sleep on you, or if you want to get stuff done you could pop the baby in a soft wrap. When she got a bit bigger I just popped her in the pram carrycot as we had it in our living room, or in her Baby Bjorn bouncer, which can lie fairly flat.

Moses baskets are pretty cheap and light, so may be worth getting one for the first few weeks when you're still recovering.

When ds was tiny, I used to swaddle him and put him to sleep under the (cloth, padded) baby gym.

When he got older and bigger (ie bigger than the crib) I used to put him in the travel cot which I would put up in our bedroom.

Never used to put him to sleep in his crib (when it was in our room) or his cot (when we'd moved him out into his own room) so that the cot/crib was always associated with "night time" sleep.

Oh yes. Ds2 refused to be laid flat for weeks and weeks. He did best in a swing chair.