Gordon Setter and a new baby

[MickeyTheShortOne]

Hi everyone. We currently have a 3yr old Gordon setter and I'm 11 weeks pregnant. I'm confident that she will be alright with the baby as is not an aggressive dog and has always been perfectly lovely around our friends children (she does tend to lose interest in things quite quickly though so generally its a sniff in their direction and walking off in the other!!)- although will obviously never leave the two alone together until the child is old enough to understand!!

How do I.. introduce the baby to her (if you like)? And train her to be careful? Have also got to get her out of the habit of sleeping on the bed with us, with a newborn i'm not sure I want that to be happening- the dog tends to shuffle around and ends up lying in between us like a third person (and she's big enough too!!)
Anyone got any experience with Setters?

Hi I have a 8 year old Gordan setter and shes wonderfull with our 3 children and always has been. Unlike your self we introdued her to our family after we had our children, our youngest was 4, but from the start she adored the children and they adore her. Shes always protective with the children , and has always refused to take food off them when offer, unless they placed it in her bowl. (she'll take it from a adult hand).
When my best friend had a baby 2 1/2 years ago she was curious initially , but then ignored her. Now she allows her to fuss her and walks away when shes had enough.
My 15 year old son was savaged by another dog last summer and it was like she had a sixth sense, she stuck to him like glue for weeks, even trying to sleep on his bed , which shes never been allowed.

In my opnion GS are fantastic family dogs, but any dog always need to be watched around young babies/ children . Id start her sleeping down stairs now so she does not associated it with the new baby, and im sure she'll accept your new baby and love the long walks you'll be able to take together :) Good luck

I've never had a setter, but I (in order, lol) had a dog, had DS, dog died, got another dog, had DD.

I didn't do anything in particular to introduce the DC to the respective dogs...just brought them home, let the dog have a sniff of the baby and went about the rest of my day, you know, as much as you do with a newborn.

With both dogs it was pretty much, where have you beeeeen, I need to sniff you, I missed you, ooh a small person, I need to sniff that - hmm, it's not doing anything, fuss me, fuss me, I missed you...

They then pretty much ignored the baby - unless it cried when both dogs would come and look at me meaningfully if I didn't get the respective baby quickly enough for them - until they were being weaned and they worked out that the small person now dropped food which was a good thing and then avoided them when the baby started to get mobile and they realised that the small person was a bit grabby, lol.

I don't have pets in bed with me though, I'd get her out of your bed now as you'll want to do it before you've got a bump and need more space.

Thanks so much for the advice. Its just so hard to keep kicking her off the bed, and when we go to sleep she always ends up there and i can't stop her in my sleep... :L
Thanks though!!