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How many beds !!

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tootfox · 08/12/2017 05:20

Hello!!

Starting to look at nursery stuff,

Cot in nursery room

Chico next to me in my room, then do I need a Moses basket aswell? For the lounge for day time? Seems a lot of beds, then a bouncy chair thing?

Please tell me what your plans are

Getting confused already lol xx

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NC1990 · 08/12/2017 05:41

We have a cot in the nursery, a Snuzpod in the bedroom (still unslept in as she hates it 🙄) and a Sleepyhead that we take downstairs for the daytime (she also hates this and usually naps on me TBH!). We also have a bouncy chair.

xyzandabc · 08/12/2017 05:48

We just had a cot. Chose one that would fit in our bedroom. Then moved it to their room at 6/7 months.

For daytime and travelling we just used the pram carrycot but it was one that specifically said it was safe for overnight sleeping, most are not.

teabagfreak · 08/12/2017 05:54

@tootfox This has been stressing me out too thinking I needed all of those, seemed like a waste of money to be honest. I haven't bought anything yet but was planning on cot (which turns into toddler bed) for nursery and next to me for our bedroom and Moses basket for livingroom, Just seems a bit extreme to get all three 😳

Joskar · 08/12/2017 06:28

Just a bouncer in the living room for us. Bouncer sleeping (for all three dc) have been quite short naps. Longer naps happen in the sling. Moses basket was a total waste of space for us. In Scotland now we have a baby box and the baby can sleep in that. V handy.

DozyDoates · 08/12/2017 06:29

For both of mine we had a Moses basket in our bedroom, then they moved into a cot in their own room. During the days naps were taken either on me, in the pram (carrycot), in the bouncy chair basically anywhere I could get them to sleep and eventually in their cot.
The bouncy chair was the one thing I mourned when the DC got too big for it. It was just a great thing to pop them into while I had a shower, cooked, had a hot drink, etc.

NapQueen · 08/12/2017 06:35

Tiny Love 3 in 1 napper for the living room (no need for a bouncer or seat too). Crib in our room. Cotbed in babys room.

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tootfox · 08/12/2017 07:44

Just looked up tiny love! Looks great thank you for the help everyone xx

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Oysterbabe · 08/12/2017 07:59

We have the cot, snuzpod, sleepyhead combo too. We also have a rocking chair for somewhere to put them down.

PurplePillowCase · 08/12/2017 08:01

we had the cot next to our bed. then later moved the cot to dc's room.
the pram carrycot made a great mobile basket for anywhere in the house.

TheLionQueen1 · 08/12/2017 08:02

I'm the same as @NC1990 ! We also have a Moses basket downstairs he was gifted and we've never used it, he sleeps in his bouncer downstairs!

TheLionQueen1 · 08/12/2017 08:03

@NC1990 we put our DS in the sleepy head in the snuzpod, he won't sleep in just the snuzpod either

ScarlettInSpace · 08/12/2017 08:06

Hmm we have a cot bed for the nursery, a Moses basket for our room then for downstairs I’m thinking of just using the pram we’ve bought as it says it is suitable as a carrycot for overnight sleeping & I can wheel her into which room I’m in - ftm though so no clue if that’s going to work or not 😕

CinnamonAndSpice · 08/12/2017 08:35

We've got a crib in our room.. And a cot as no nursery until we move house. So chance are she will be with us about a year. Then a rocker napper in lounge ( two in one sleeper and rocker ) also have the carry cot

CinnamonAndSpice · 08/12/2017 08:37

Yeah I meant tiny love.. Couldn't think of the name of it. Smyths are the cheapest I found

mindutopia · 08/12/2017 13:24

This is our second. We just have a cot set up next to our bed for co-sleeping and then a larger cot bed in the nursery that we only plan to use later like closer to a year if baby is sleeping separately at that point. Mostly, we only use it in the first year to hold the cot top changer as we bedshare anyway. You will want somewhere to sleep downstairs too. But that can be a pram carry cot, a mattress on the floor (assuming you have no pets), a wrap, a moses basket, whatever. Our dd slept mostly in the wrap, sometimes in a little bed I made on the floor for her, sometimes in the bouncer, never once slept in the moses basket that we spent so much money on.

ijustwannadance · 08/12/2017 13:27

I just used pram carrycot downstairs during the day.

Anitlin · 08/12/2017 13:54

I had just a made up bed on the floor and baby co-slept - still does! I had a rocking chair which he never slept on but suddenly has an interest in it now when he's too big to fit in lol
For the current one, I will be getting a moses basket as my toddler is so active running around so don't want to knock the baby. Will be co-sleeping again so no cot.

EastDulwichWife · 08/12/2017 14:33

We're going for a cot and next-to-me crib, plus a moses basket downstairs in the living room.

Olivelor · 08/12/2017 15:38

Hmm I arranged a snuzpod in our bedroom and a moses basket in the bedroom down stairs. I will see how it goes and arrange a cot bed in the nursery or I will shift the moses basket into it.

ZigZagandDustin · 08/12/2017 15:40

Just a cot in baby's room for when he goes into his room. Moses baskets have been a total waste of time with my other 3 so I'll not bother with it this time. Straight to cosleeping until about 6 months.

Bellamuerte · 08/12/2017 17:28

We have a Snuzpod for the bedroom, the cot part comes off and you can take it into other rooms to use during the day.

Phryne · 09/12/2017 13:37

We had a non-sleeper who hated to be put down (my sling love is off topic here I think though) so I wound up with:

  • cosleeper (sidecar cot style, i.e. a slightly small cot that's designed to bolt to the bed) this was a miracle as it meant she could be eased down / bf to sleep / held a hand but still had her own space and we actually got some sleep
  • actual cot (when she outgrew the first one at 1 year)
  • pram with bassinet
  • Moses basket downstairs (also used for travel until she outgrew it)
  • various travel cots (DD hated all of them)
  • bouncer chair (that reclined, y'know, for those sleeping babies)
  • various floor mat with toys things (inc one which my friend's baby loved to sleep on)

Each of these things some one I trust and whose opinion I respect SWORE BLIND would change my life. The only one that helped was the cosleeper and I am really glad that I got all the rest second hand as the total spend was approx: cosleeper (inc mattress, sheets) £100; actual cot £100; rest of it £100. I did buy a new mattress for the Moses basket (£10) and steam cleaned what couldn't be machine washed. Definitely recommend waiting if you can as people give a lot of these things away for free or pence and what works for you won't be clear until you can try it with your actual baby.

MrsPicklesonSmythe · 09/12/2017 13:46

I'm on baby number 3.

I have a Moses basket and two stands, one in the living room and one in the bedroom. Then when he/she outgrows I will get rid of those and set up the cot instead. I don't co-sleep and I won't use sleepyheads etc.

Anything else is throwing money away to be honest but make sure your mattresses are new.

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tootfox · 09/12/2017 13:59

I wanted to get one of those nice bouncy thing that moves but they look quite sturdy and not somthing I could keep moving around, what do I do when I'm in the shower? Do I get another bouncy thing! I don't have that much room! 😳 xx

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MrsPicklesonSmythe · 09/12/2017 19:40

I use a simple bouncey chair that's easy to move from room to room. Makes it so much easier when they go through the clingy phases and you need to shower etc

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