Pram sleeping

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DS is 8 weeks old he eats 4oz every 3 hours (although has on occasion gone as long as 4).

Since he was 2 days old he's slept mainly in his pram with a Moses basket mattress in. At night he settles any time between 10-11 (usually after a 10pm ish feed). Wakes for another feed around 2 (which DP gives him), then he's wheeled into our room and then I get up for 5/6am feed. Sometimes he goes back down until his nex feed, if he won't then I wheel him back to the living room and we both get up.

I guess I have 2 questions for more experienced mums.
Is it ok for him to sleep in his pram (it is listed as suitable for overnight sleeping, just not sure if that means every night!)

Should we / when should we be trying to impose a more rigid routine? As long as he's getting enough milk and sleep (and we are too!) do we need to be putting in place a timetable when he's this little. Or later?

His timetable sounds very standard. I'd guess something like the times you describe for most of this year maybe dropping 2am at later stage.

Can the Moses go in your room? There's increased chance of SIDS if baby isn't sleeping in your room in first six months?

I don't think the pram matters just now but by 8-12 wks he might expect to be in it and might get tougher to get him in a Moses or cot. All are individuals though so noticing his cues are best way.

Congrats and well done thus far :)

If he has a cot I'd use that for some of his day time naps so he is used to it as he may not fit in his pram for that much longer.

Thanks so much Minnie. That's reassuring, I feel clueless.

To clarify - he's never asleep anywhere one of us is not (my DP stays up with him asleep in the pram in the living room until the 2am feed after which they both come into the bedroom - DP is a night-owl, I'm an early-bird!)

We haven't got a Moses (just the mattress!) but maybe I'll start trying to introduce the cot for the second part of the night soon to get him used to it and go from there.

Good plan random. I've tried the cot a few times but he just doesn't ever go fast asleep in it. I will persevere with introducing sleeps in it, as he's growing fast! I do like how portable he is in the pram but know it won't last forever... Just really wanted to be sure that it wasn't bonkers for him to sleep in it so much whilst he's tiny - it doesn't seem that different from Moses basket but the last person I mentioned it to looked at me like I was barmy.

My son slept in the carrycot part of his pram on a stand next to our bed for the first 4 months. I didn't see the point of getting a separate moses basket but we did buy a proper mattress for it.
We have a big bedroom so at 4 months we put him in the cot next to our bed before moving it in to his room at 6 months or so.

Start by putting the pram top into the cot see if that helps? It's what I did with the moses basket. I had incredibly long babies so moses basket only lasted weeks!

Magna, thanks, that sounds reassuringly like my vague plan.

He's 8w now so was thinking if I should get him in the cot sooner. But if I do it between now and four monthsish, the fact that you did it makes me feel like I've got time to introduce the cot one sleep at a time.

Another good tip, random, thank you.