She's growing out of her bassinet, what now?

[Katey1010]

I am trying to work out what to do about this and also follow all the SIDS advice. My 6 week old is very long and is rapidly growing out of her bassinet. She is in it inside her cot in the night so she will just use the cot without the bassinet soon.

What do I do in the daytime, though? We have a travel cot but I have heard that the mattresses aren't great and it is a hand-me-down. I have a bouncy chair but is that OK for a nap? I would assume not since car seats aren't and it has her at the same angle. Obviously not the sofa etc. and if I put her in her cot, she is not in the same room as me.

What did/do you do? She is my PFB so I may be being a little worrisome!

Put her in her cot when she needs a nap. You can still hear her when she cries or use a baby monitor.

I put DD on a folded blanket on the floor in the living room (nice and cosy) with another blanket on top.

DH is keen on the blanket idea. I'm worried it's draughty on the floor and she is terrible for kicking her covers off (I suppose I could use the sleep bags she has). I might try the cot when she is a little older but am still too anxious now to put her in the other room (I know, if she was my second...)

DD's 10mo old now and doesn't seem bothered by draughts, and we live in an old, very draughty house! As long as you have a cardigan on her and a nice warm blanket to go over the top, she'll be fine. Plus, when she's big enough, there's nothing to roll/crawl/climb out of!

I second the cot. Unless your house is enormous you'll hear when she wakes up. Baby monitor if you're anxious. Everyone gets an hour or two to themselves and you can get on with stuff downstairs without worrying abot waking her up.

Cot, sleeping bag, monitor, blackout blinds.

DD will get used to sleeping in her cot and her room and you will not be worried about not hearing

I know what you mean Katy - SIDs advice is to keep them in the same room as you for all sleeps - we have only just started putting 5 month DD to bed in her cot upstairs for her night sleep - before she would sleep in the pram downstairs and we would transfer her when we went up. Think our friends thought we were mad but this is teh correct interpretation of the SIDS advice. Does she have a lie flat pram she could take her day naps in?

Mine always went into the travel cot downstairs. It meant they learned to sleep through noise too. I could hoover and they wouldn't flinch.

I used to work from home. My office consists of a laptop on side table with me sat on the sofa.
Used to have DD sleeping on sofa, next to me.
Not ideal if you need to move, though.

I knew there was a reason I needed a flat pram! I opted for a travel system that didn't lie flat.

Our room is on the same floor as the kitchen/living room so I suppose I could put her in there and maybe still hear her. Zimm, it is that I am interpreting the SIDS advice that way. Trying to do everything right is confusing and difficult

The advice relating to babies changes every few years or so. If you try to keep up with every single scrap of information & advice you will always find it confusing and difficult... and one day it'll all change 180 degrees and you'll be annoyed on top :)

We are programmed as mothers to hear the slightest sound our babies make from 40 paces... we spend the first few months like demented meerkats as a result - worse if we get baby monitors. Babies are tougher than they look.

Always trust your own judgement.

Somebosy said on here the other day that the SIDS advice doesn't count for naps as they do not sleep as deeply, therefore they can go in a cot in the bedroom for naps.

Now getting a decent mattress for the travel cot isn't a bad idea. I think I want her closer now. When she is a little older I may relent and use her cot.

She had better nap today, no sleep last night at all (I am in a different country so I have just got up.