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Cot Vs Crib Vs Moses Baskets...

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Elf1981 · 01/09/2005 22:24

My little one is due at the beginning of October. We have brought a cot for when baby is a bit older and in their own room. (It's a cot bed so hopefully we'll get a fair amount of use out of it).

We've inherited a moses basket and a swinging crib. Currently our plan is to have one in our room whilst baby is sleeping in the same room as us, and the other in the living room for baby to sleep in during the day.

Providing the baby likes to sleep in both of them, does anybody has any idea what is better for long periods of sleeping in? Which ever is best, we'll be using in the bedroom, and the other in the living room, but I honestly have no clue what is better for night time sleeping.

Any ideas anybody?

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Flum · 01/09/2005 22:26

Babies will sleep anywhere, they don't care. like little cats.

rocking crib in bedroom
moses basket downstairs, can carry it about with you.

You are very well equiped. Mine slept in a washing up bowl with a blanket in it for first two weeks!! she was fine, then a bit too long and got a rocking crib too. she never liked the rocking bit though.

hunkermunker · 01/09/2005 22:42

Think we'll have those choices too - we're likely to keep the swinging crib upstairs because it will last longer as a place for nighttime sleep and be suitable for the baby to sleep in during daytime naps (am hoping DS will still nap for a few months at least after this baby's born too - he'll be 21mo then).

DS grew out of the moses basket fairly early on - we were wedging him in it by the time he was 8 weeks old, so he went into the big cot. But a swinging cradle has a solid base, so won't sag in the same way - and is bigger anyway.

Also, by the time the baby's grown out of the moses basket, they can play on the floor or in a bouncy chair.

Hope this has helped you - it's clarified things for me! LOL!

Hey, you can say "due next month" now - bet that's gone fast!

Tommy · 01/09/2005 22:46

we had the same as you elf! I kept the Moses basket downstairs for daytime naps and the swinging thing in our bedroom although we stoped using it pretty quickly as I didn't think DS1 liked the swinging much! Also, I found it a bit unsteady. For DS2 we used the Moses basket in the bedroom and he napped in the pram downstairs. The we moved the cot into our room when he gre out of the basket!
Flum is right though - they'll sleep anywhere. DS2 used to sleep on the sofa quite a bit bad mummy alert.....

jennifersofia · 01/09/2005 22:48

I think the mattress with the most support is best for nighttime sleeping. Having said that, we found with our rocking cradle that the babe would stick her hand between the spindles and wake herself up, so we ended up using the m.basket upstairs and downstairs.
Best of luck.

lucy5 · 01/09/2005 22:58

I had a huge moses basket, a bit of a family heirloom, dd hated it and slept in her pram,(a traditional one} upstairs and down until she moved into her cot.

Angeliz · 01/09/2005 23:02

I had all that with dd1 but i thinbk she only used the crib for a very small time and with dd2 we just used the moses basket.
Then if she was asleep in the living room i just lifted her up to bed. I always slept them in the moses basket - placed in the cot.

Good luck

cupcakes · 01/09/2005 23:07

rocking crib - c**p. ds hated it. major pita.
moses basket - sent from heaven. Dd slept in it on a lambskin like an angel. She went through the night from about 7 weeks - am still having trouble now with ds who is 5!

Davros · 01/09/2005 23:07

Swinging crib! Better ventilation, more room, you can see them easily without moving..... blah blah. I don't like Moses baskets, so there!

bee3 · 01/09/2005 23:14

We had a swinging crib right next to our bed when ds was first born, and it was brilliant for rocking him to sleep when I knew he was just unsettled - I could almost do it in my sleep. He'd sleep lying on me beautifully, but I never got the hang of being relaxed enough to sleep properly myself if he was in our bed, so that worked well.

We didn't have a moses basket, so he often napped in his buggy or on the sofa during the day, but we also got into the habit of putting him down for naps in his cot in his own room, which I think helped when the time came to transfer him there for the night. He was certainly having all his naps in there from about 12 weeks, and he slept overnight in his cot from about 5 months, when he outgrew the crib. HTH

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Elf1981 · 02/09/2005 12:08

This has been very helpful, thanks!

It does seem so close now to say "due next month"!

Just cant wait for the next two weeks to go, I finish work on the 16th and cant wait as the pressure is really piling on at the mo, and I need a break from it. Hopefully that will fly by, then I can spend the next few weeks pottering around, ohhing and ahhing over the baby stuff we've got and watching naff telly waiting for the little one to arrive!

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scotlou · 02/09/2005 12:31

Neither of mine would sleep in the Moses basket
. Both ended up in bed with me and got transferred to cot around 8 - 10 weeks.

Nickyfen · 02/09/2005 12:54

ds slept in a moses basket in our room untill one night when he was 9 weeks we had to put him in a travel cot whilst staying at my mums. That was the 1st night he slept through, after that he went in his big cot in his own room and has slept through ever since!

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