Moving on from Moses basket advice

[Kent1982]

Hi advice required, my 5 week old is going to be too big for his basket soon, we bought a massive cot which is in his room but won't fit in ours and I'm keen to keep him in my room ( I don't think I would sleep without him in here anyway) I have bought a travel cot and breathable matress which is smaller than my cot would it be ok if he sleeps in here untill he is 6 month.

He possibly has another month in his basket but he is my first baby and I'm prone to worrying so I would like to have my plan ready now really

Any advice welcome please

When you say it won't fit, what do you mean. Won't fit like a normal piece of furniture or physically won't go? Lots of people climb into bed via the foot or move a chest of drawers or other furniture for a few months?

You can't raise the height of the mattress with a travel cot and there is a good chance you will soon come to realise the ease of having baby at eye level to you rather than having to stand up and reach down into a low travel cot at every wake up.

As PP said, I would remove a chest of drawers and put them into the nursery for a while, brining the full sized cot into your room.

While you are at it, remove one side of the cot and butt it up to your bed with matching height mattresses.

If you can sell on, a crib might work.

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Technically I think a travel cot is fine - it's just that I would find the bending down a pain if using it every day for months.

Depends what travel cot you have - some come with a bassinet level. Ours did and I used this for the in between basket and big cot stage. DD was fine in there for a few months before moving her to her own room at just over 4 months. Agree with other posters that bending down to pick up DD from a travel cot without the bassinet level would be an absolute pain, quite literally - my back wouldn't have taken it!

Thanks all I might stop being stingy and get him a crib,

I don't think its stingy at all! It's so easy to spend and spend on things that only end up being used for a few months. My thinking was that a travel cot with bassinet level was cost effective as I would need a travel cot longer term anyway. For me, this was cheaper than buying a crib that would be obsolete in a few months AND a travel cot.

I would check that a crib will last much longer to be honest. Many of them are a good deal longer, but not much wider, than a moses basket.

We have this one from mamas and papas which works well for us. It is small enough to fit neatly in our room, and she'll not outgrow it until about 12 months, by which time my son will be done with his cot. ignoring the fact that my son decided to sleep in the big boy bed the very same week the baby stopped co sleeping

A crib is more or less the same size as a moses basket, so may be a waste of money.

Can you fit a full sized cot next to your bed? Would be easiest even if it means removing a chest of drawers from your bedroom.

We went for a crib option - we borrowed from a friend. Our little girl grew out of her moses basket at 12 weeks - likes her arms up by her ears and is very long.

The crib she would still fit in comfortably now (although she moved to cot a month ago) - it was about 10cm's wider and square so her head had more space.

Neither the cot or travel cot would fit in our bedroom without having to be moved every time we wanted to get into wardrobes! No other options for us and we wanted to keep her with us for longer.

Obv you need to look up dimensions before buying, but our crib for dd was about a foot longer than Moses basket we had DS .