beds/cots??

[LeBFG]

Although I'm due my second in March, I'm totally unprepared regarding sleeping arrangements. Last one came early and I just made it all up a bit - co-slept early on with naps in a lovely flat-bed (borrowed) pram, then a little homemade wooden rocker on the floor (! totally crap btw), then finally a nice wooden cot by about 4/5 months.

Sleep is never easy to find early on plus I'll almost certainly be bf again. So any ideas of the best way to get to 4/5 month cot stage? My sister did a moses basket, but I'm a bit wary about all that bending down all night long. Are those bed-side cots really what they're cracked up to be? How easy is it to move baby onto bed and back? I went on the MN products and saw a sling/hammock style bed - totally new to me, any experiences of these?

If you're getting a double buggy, worth considering getting one with a carrycot - ds did all his napping in there for first couple of months, and could be pushed to dd's activites and carried in still sleeping. Also used to fall asleep in there in the evening, then I just plonked him by side of bed til he woke for first feed after which we co-slept. transferred to a cot in our room at about two months when he was waking less often for feeds. he is now in cot in room with dd at 7mo and naps in sling or pushchair.

I wasn't planning on double buggy mainly because I rarely use prams (in the country). I'm not 100% sure about co-sleeping and will avoid it if I can. So I'm imagining lots of transfers between bed and cot....hmm, will think on it.

Bed side cot blimin amazing, but expensive!

Sorry to be a bit thick - I've been looking at moses baskets online and they often come with a stand. Are these safe?? They look a bit unsafe to me - risk of tipping over during night time fumblings....

Stands are fine, perfectly safe, but I went for a stationary one rather than a rocking one as I didnt want her to need to be rocked.

We got a pretend bedside cot masquerading as a cot bed from Ikea - it cost £65 and has two heights, and one side comes off (for when you're supposed to turn it into a cot bed). It fits perfectly alongside our bed (a standard height bed) and we have it wedged between our bed and the wall. It's awesome and makes bed sharing much less fraught as it feels like an extension of the bed.

The only thing is putting him in/pulling him out as it needs a twisty little movement from lying down position but it's not the worst thing in the world :)

Thanks - I'm thinking about getting DH to adapt our cot for something like that. We'll see - I'm still looking at perhaps a moses basket. I like the idea they are cocooned especially when napping in the day.