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MandyR88
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baby sleep in a laundry basket
MandyR88
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i was talking to a friend from back home about my excitement about how my boyfriend and i picked up our crib and dresser last night at the store. she was telling me how wrong i was for wasting money on a crib when a baby doesnt need one. shes pregnant herself (only 13 weeks along) and she told me how she is just going to use a laundry basket with a blanket at the bottom until the baby is old enough to sleep in her bed with her. is it just me or is anyone else having the thoughts of "what the fu@k!" i told her how i felt about her plan to use a laundry basket and she didnt like what i had to say meanwhile i sat and listened to her *** to me about how i wasted money on a crib and dresser. ugh.
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Re: baby sleep in a laundry basket
she was VERY serious. the conversation ended up with her hanging up the phone on me
Wow...just wow. She needs to be hit with some common sense. A crib a waste of money? Wow. Am I rude for calling her a dumba*s?
Oh Wow.
One of my friends is a peds neurologist and used a laundry basket for a little while when her daughter was born, BUT it was not planned. The baby was four weeks early, they were moving that weekend, and were waiting for the furniture to arrive. I mean I guess it would work but maybe encourage her towards at least getting a pack-n-play? Not sure how a laundry basket ranks up there with all the SIDS precautions!
Seriously, WTF!
well we bought a convertable crib, so its the crib, toddler/daybed/ and full size headboard and footboard as well. it will get much more than one year of use
Nope, I'm pretty sure you get a pass on this one... she's a dumba*s!
LOL - I was thinking more like a college student in a dorm... you probably wouldn't want the baby on the top bunk with you, so use the laundry basket, broke college student-style!
I guess I'm the only one who doesn't think this is that awful ... a laundry basket can't be any more uncomfortable than the "mattress" that comes in the PNP.
And she won't be able to use it for more than a month or so anyway ... I guess a crib would be a waste of money if you weren't going to use it very long. I also won't berate her for hanging up on you ... you sound like you were giving her a piece of your mind about it, and I might have hung up on you too. 
All that said, I do personally plan on using both a PNP and a crib.
seeing as how i listened to ber b!tch to me about how i wasted my money and what i should have done instead of buying a crib, she could have heard me out as well for my opinion on what she was going to do rather than just hang up so she didnt have to listen to what i had to say. thats just a rude person.
If you put a mattress in it, it wouldn't be so bad, but just putting the baby down on moveable blankets is really unsafe.
I'll agree with that.
Granted this was 17 years ago but my aunt put my cousin in a laundry basket for the first few weeks/months. I have kind of joked about it. I said I have all I need for the first few months, her car seat. If I don't get a crib or bassinet, then she can always sleep in a laundry basket. I wasn't all that serious but I really don't think of it as being all that bad.
ETA: We are getting a crib and have a PNP.
Hey since she is using regular household items to furnish a bed, why doesn't she use the bathtub? It's quite roomy!
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Haha, and comfy!! DH makes fun of me because for awhile when we would would go out drinking, if I overdid it I would take some blankets and sleep in the tub, it was always nice and warm from the air vents running underneath it and handy access to the toilet if need be!
reminds me of a conversation we had this morning before my partner left of him taking the baby to work. We thought the desk drawer might be a good place to chill out with blankets and toys.
of course we wouldn't actually do that.
a dresser isn't much different then a trundle bed IMO.
One of the girls I work with has a family tradition of using a laundry basket instead of a bassinet. It is an old laundry basket that has been passed around the family. It looks a lot like a Moses Basket. I think it is cute but not for me.
True, but to be fair to my mom, she did pull out the drawer, like, completely I believe and had it by her bed
I don't think I was just hanigng out in an open dresser drawer 
now theres an idea ...
hanging up on you about it is a bit much.... well, more than a bit - it's pretty rude actually. And I think a crib is a wise investment.
But.... to play devil's advocate here, I have to say, I've seen some pretty nice laundry baskets around.... some that look very similar to bassinets:)
I may be missing something, but I don't see what the big deal is about using a laundry basket. I don't personally think a crib is a waste of money, but I don't really see anything wrong with using a laundry basket instead of buying a crib and a bassinet. It was very common for people to use dresser drawers for baby beds. And think of a Moses basket- looks quite a bit like a laundry basket if you ask me.
maybe she should be called on. How safe is sleep in a laundry basket for the long term. at best they will set her straight about where a baby should sleep.
we no longer live in a time that a dresser drawer is ok.