What to do when baby outgrows moses basket?

[nikki444]

After what felt like a lifetime my 5 week old baby girl has finally learnt to sleep in her moses basket! The problem is she's such a big baby I'm already starting to think it won't be long before she's outgrown it!
What are parents supposed to do if this happens and there is no room in your bedroom for a cot? She has a nursery all set up with a cot, but obviously has been in our room since birth. I know the guidelines state babies should be in parents rooms until 6 months, but this just is not possible for us. Any advice please?

I see many mums talking about co-sleeping but this does not fit in with SIDS guidelines does it

There are ways to safely cosleep, within SIDS recommendations. More information here:

www.lullabytrust.org.uk/bedsharing]

Both my babies slept in the Moses basket until they were around 7 months old and could climb out of it. Well, the second one supposedly slept in it but really just slept on me.

Why do you think she'll outgrow it?

Went into cot in our room which required taking the wardrobe out of our bedroom and putting it in the hallway. Finally hit their own rooms at 9 months/16 months respectively.

Daytime naps were all in downstairs sleeping receptacle (carrycot thing) or in the sling on me.

Thanks Fate, I have just looked at that site really useful apart from ...

"You should never sleep together with your baby if any of the above points apply to you, or even if you just feel very tired"

what parent with a young baby doesn't feel very tired 😕

Op look at the research as linked to by previous posters. You can make an informed decision for her to sleep or nap in a separate room to you if you are aware of all the evidence. The risk of sids is very tiny and the decrease in risk for room sharing is, at present, circumstantial not causational. That's not to say you don't need to take all the risk factors into consideration as the consequences are so serious but, for example, formula feeding is a similar risk factor and you don't very often have mothers on here being chastised for this due to sids risk. If you do want her to stay in the room with you, look at something like the chicco next to me crib which is large enough till 6 months and also fairly portable (without the side down) if you wanted to bring it downstairs for naps.

Sorry just seen your baby is only 5 weeks- I would probably be a little more cautious for the next couple of months as she's so tiny. Babies don't seem to get woken up so easily being in the same room as you at this age anyway.

My oldest moved into his own room at 4 months for that reason. She's probably got longer in the Moses than you think

Both my DSs slept in a travel cot next to my bed. I felt ready to move DS1 into his own room at around 9 months. DS2 is 5 months at the moment and I can't envisage moving him yet. Possibly when he's 9 months or so, but even though he's quite big for his age, he's still so little atm.

Daytime naps are either on me or on the floor, on his play mat, always in the same room as me.

Old thread but came across it - do people really not put their babies to nap in a room & leave them?! What about bedtime?

My LO has gone down for naps in her Snuz & now her cot since she was 8 weeks.. I then go & get some jobs done like the washing etc. I have a video monitor with me at all times. She won’t sleep unless she’s in her bed & it’s quiet & fairly dark. So no chance of napping in the living room nor the pram sadly! She hasn’t napped in her pram since she was 5 weeks old.. hated her swing & bouncy chair.. basically, only a flat mattress, some white noise & no distractions makes her sleep!

My LO also goes to bed at 6.30 (in our room at the mo, she’s 5 months). We then have dinner & watch some TV & come up to bed at 10pm. We’ve done that since she was 8 weeks old as well, again with a video monitor. What else are we supposed to do? She is exhausted by that time & there is no way we could keep her up until 10pm. Again, she wouldn’t sleep in the living room with us as it’d be too bright & too much going on.. and we can’t come to bed at 6.30?!

Bol87, best practice advice for safe sleep is baby sleeps in the same room you are until 6 months old.

That means in the evenings, babies sleep on a firm, flat mattress in a cot or crib downstairs if that is where you are. Likewise daytime naps.

Lots of people make informed decisions to not follow best practice advice of various aspects of safe sleep. That is any parents prerogative. What is not acceptable is to imply anything along the lines of "I didn't follow the guidelines so it is safe for you to do like I did", because that's not true.

Same
did you have another ? All of ours are huge and we were joking about a luxurious dog bed at this point but also maybe we start a business —-XXL Moses baskets 😂