Where will your baby sleep as a newborn?

Cort711 · June 2011

After posting the "pack 'n play lite vs full size" post below, it got me thinking.. where is everyone planning on having their LO sleep as a newborn? I automatically figured she will sleep in a pack 'n play next to our bed since I plan on breast feeding. Is this what everyone else is doing? Bassinet? Pack 'n play? If you are using the pack 'n play, are you getting the one with the newborn napper or just the removable bassinet? Anyone going to try the crib from the very beginning?

jjswife08 · June 2011

LO will be in a bassinet in our room for a while then move into the crib.

rachaelski · June 2011

A friend is lending us their cosleeper that will go next to our bed for a while. Until we move, the baby will be in our room with us, so we'll get a mini-crib for the baby.

JPafford86 · June 2011

We will be side-car-ing the crib like I did at 6 months with DD. But this time I will do it from the beginning. With DD I had her in a bassinet until she started rolling over then put her into her own room in the crib but this exhausted me while trying to breastfeed. I sleep much better with LO in our room until a) sleeping through the night or b) done breastfeeding.

HTH

staciemc · June 2011

We are getting a pack n play with the newborn inserts for our baby to sleep in for the first few months. We are traveling over Christmas and it will just be easier to use the pack n play from the start so that our baby gets used to sleeping there. Once we are back home in January, baby will probably be moved to their crib.

MrsG.060708 · June 2011

In a pack n play with the bassinet insert, in our room.

avalei · June 2011

Bassinet by the bed, possibly an Arm's reach cosleeper.

vtcnicely · June 2011

We're doing the pack n play next to our bed until the LO can sleep through the night.

littleshopofyorkies · June 2011

She will be with us! Maybe I will change my mind, but I am excited to have her sleep in the room with us. If she has a problem moving to the crib I know it will be my own fault.

We are going to use a bassinet that comes with our stroller.

WARM SUMMERS · June 2011

vtcnicely:
We're doing the pack n play next to our bed until the LO can sleep through the night.

This!

Nikkoli110 · June 2011

My sister is letting us have her co-sleeper, her baby will be about 5-6 months so she'll no longer need it.

Danica3160 · June 2011

Baby will sleep with us until 2-3 months and then will go in the crib. We do have a beautiful bassinet and also a pack n' play with a bassinet that we will try but DS didn't like either, so I am expecting the same for this one.

angiegail78 · June 2011

I'm honestly not sure. Our plan with DS was to have him sleep in the bassinet in our room and then transition him to his crib around three months.

That didn't work. He refused to sleep unless someone was holding him for the first month. We finally got him to sleep in his carseat, and he slept there until he was two months old and then we FINALLY got him to sleep in the bassinet.

That all went out the window when I went back to work after maternity leave. His sleep started getting worse and worse and he would only sleep if he was nursing. I was finally able to transition him to his crib at 6 months.

My plan for this one is to buy the Fisher Price Rock n Play sleeper. I've heard great things about that. I hope this one will sleep better than DS did!

lhuttlinger · June 2011

Dd will probably sleep in our bed for the first few weeks and then we will move here to the pnp at about 1 month or so. At 2 or 3 months we'll move her to a crib.

blairy926 · June 2011

I am actually thinking about getting a pack 'n play lite for our room (we will have a regular one, too, just not for our room). I can use the lite for a little while, too, at my parents' place for baby to sleep, as they live close by. The pack 'n play lite is cheaper than most of the bassinets I've seen and seems to have at least a little longer life in terms of usefulness. All of these plans could still change, though.

jnaden2 · June 2011

LO will be sleeping in our room in the Rock-N-Play. (Best thing in the world!!!....Highly recommend it)

jb2rn · June 2011

pack n play with the infant adapter thing up top. I have no desire to walk down the hall several times a night to feed baby, I'd prefer him/her within reaching distance.

jaminjeff · June 2011

The plan is the nursery but I'm also a first time mom, so you know that'll probably change Stick out tongue

That being said, our master bedroom and the nursery are the only two rooms upstairs, so whoever is taking their turn with the baby can go in the nursery with LO while the other sleeps.

kateNovemberBaby · June 2011

I bookmarked all of these suggestions! Thanks so much for this post, it was really really helpful Yes

LadyMadrid08 · June 2011

Could someone post a picture of the adapter thing you are talking about? Do you mean there is a second level for the pack n play or are you talking about the small bassinet some come with? I am trying to find something similar here, but wanted to know what exactly you all meant.

Also, I looked up the Rock n Play Sleeper and read far too many reviews saying it flattened their babies heads after two months of use for me to consider buying it. Just something to think about...

ETA: I think I found a picture. Also, I read more reviews and comments about the Rock n Play and it seems this product has not been found to be the cause of this as developing a flat head is fairly common in infants...still not sure I would get it for constant use though.

FuFey · June 2011

I was on the "sleep in the crib from the start" bandwagon, but then I realized that LO is due in November, and I'll be home through the new year and plan on BFing. So I'd have to get out of bed. DH and I hate to get out of our warm fluffy bed (we joke about getting catheters so we don't have to get out of bed to pee in the winter. We have an odd, odd sense of humor!). So now I'm thinking some kind of bassinet or something next to the bed. I think I'd rather deal with adjusting Gilbert/a to a crib after a few months than constantly getting out of bed in the winter.

Cort711 · June 2011

LadyMadrid08:

Could someone post a picture of the adapter thing you are talking about? Do you mean there is a second level for the pack n play or are you talking about the small bassinet some come with? I am trying to find something similar here, but wanted to know what exactly you all meant.

Also, I looked up the Rock n Play Sleeper and read far too many reviews saying it flattened their babies heads after two months of use for me to consider buying it. Just something to think about...

https://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=4279440&fromRegistryNumber=46894133&product_skn=566066

This is the one I have on our registery right now. The insert is the bassinet on top. You can remove it when the baby gets bigger and just move the bottom up to a higher level for the in between stage.

ETA: This is rated the Best play yard in Baby Bargains. Baby Bargains also says that the newborn nappers are not that safe, so we will be getting the one I linked above that just has the bassinet.

Teffie · June 2011

We'll be doing the PnP in our room for the first 3-4 months. After that, s/he'll go to the crib. Possibly earlier depending on how things go. The baby's room is directly across the hall from the master.

HadleyS · June 2011

Our baby will be in a pack n' play in our room until DH goes back to work, then I will move him/her to a crib so he can rest a little better....but if we both are working, then I'll keep the baby with us until he/she sleeps through the night for a solid week.

Teffie · June 2011

Those of you who say you'll be sleeping close to baby so you 'don't have to get out of bed', what do you plan to do about diaper changes? I guess I'm not understanding the logistics of changing poopy diapers in your own bed (and then what you'd do with the dirty diapers?!)

I know I'll be going to the babys changing dresser to do that. But then again, it's directly across the hall. Just curious...

smilelari · June 2011

Arm's Reach Co-Sleeper next to the bed. And my goal in life is to learn how to nurse side lying, so there will likely be some bed sharing as well.

smilelari · June 2011

Teffie:
Those of you who say you'll be sleeping close to baby so you 'don't have to get out of bed', what do you plan to do about diaper changes? I guess I'm not understanding the logistics of changing poopy diapers in your own bed (and then what you'd do with the dirty diapers?!)

I know I'll be going to the babys changing dresser to do that. But then again, it's directly across the hall. Just curious...

This is the one thing I never figured out. Last time LO slept in a bassinet in our room, but every time I got up to nurse him, I went to the nursery to do that. Newborns are very efficient and tend to poop either while they are nursing or right after, so I would change him before taking him back to the bassinet. I know some people figure out how to do this without moving around quite so much

CheriCO · June 2011

We plan to do the same thing we did with DS. We'll have a pnp (just a plain one with no fancy attachments) in our room. When we first put LO down at night s/he will go in the pnp. When LO first wakes at night (assuming I'm already in bed) I'll bring him/her into bed with us & we'll co-sleep for the rest of the night.

We also have a snuggle nest co-sleeper that we used in the first few weeks with DS (it goes on the bed), so we may use that again in the first few weeks with this LO.

katie0919 · June 2011

jaminjeff:

The plan is the nursery but I'm also a first time mom, so you know that'll probably change

That being said, our master bedroom and the nursery are the only two rooms upstairs, so whoever is taking their turn with the baby can go in the nursery with LO while the other sleeps.

This to a T!!! Down to the two rooms upstairs and all! You are thinking my same thoughts, little lady! Cool

littlekeller · June 2011

We are doing crib from the very beginning. DH and I have said this from before we got a BFP. This way we are not both getting up when LO needs something.

We have friends who have twins (now 4yo) that still co-sleep b/c that can't get them to sleep in their own room.
^ I know this is only one horror story, but I want to be able to have my own space, from the start.

Also DH and I are people that have to have the TV on to fall asleep and that is not good for the baby. LO needs a nice quiet place of his/her own.

jb2rn · June 2011

Teffie:

Those of you who say you'll be sleeping close to baby so you 'don't have to get out of bed', what do you plan to do about diaper changes? I guess I'm not understanding the logistics of changing poopy diapers in your own bed (and then what you'd do with the dirty diapers?!)

I know I'll be going to the babys changing dresser to do that. But then again, it's directly across the hall. Just curious...

I have this pack n play: https://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=laguna+pack+n+play&hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&prmd=ivns&resnum=3&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&biw=1659&bih=835&wrapid=tlif130711413653310&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=1130798545396707387&sa=X&ei=lfroTbLHHqXZiAKYpOCMAQ&ved=0CFAQ8gIwAA#

it had a changing station right on it.

Shpointers · June 2011

Our master bedroom is small and there is honestly no extra room for a pnp or bassinet. Our goal is to have LO sleep in the crib from day one. We are going to try to put a daybed in the nursery so if one of us has to stay in there we can.

CheriCO · June 2011

responding to some questions in replies...

Flat head comes from baby sleeping on his back. It's a side-effect of all the SIDS warnings. DS mostly slept on his side (and co-slept for the first 6 months) so never got a flat head. I've seen TONS of babies with flat heads in the past several years, though.

Side-lying nursing is a life saver! It's definitely worth learning. I'm so glad the LC taught us this before we left the hospital. I didn't even have to actually wake up to feed DS.

For changing poopy diapers...I can't remember how long we had to do this. It doesn't seem like it lasted that long. At some point, DS stopped pooping every time he ate, so there were many months of co-sleeping where we didn't really have to change him in the middle of the night. When we were changing him in the middle of the night, we either changed him on our bed, in the snuggle nest, or in the pnp (bigger prefolds make excellent changing pads). We'd just set the dirty diapers aside until the morning. After we moved him to the crib in his room, we changed him on the changing table.

LesRN · June 2011

we're doing the pack n play with the bassinet in our bedroom as well. After the first month or so I plan on having LO nap in the crib to get used to it and just be in our room over night. By the time I go back to work at 3 months I'd like to have LO in the crib full time. Which probably won't happen...but we'll see.

mushE · June 2011

I don't want to have to get a bassinet and a pack 'n play, so we'll probably get just a pack 'n play, with the newborn sleeper. But, my parents also have this antique wooden cradle which is about the size of a bassinet, so we're considering borrowing that and seeing if baby will sleep in it during the first few months.

I'd love to be able to go straight to the crib, but all my friends say their kids didn't tolerate that.

PenniePie25 · June 2011

Baby will be in a bassinet in our room for the first 8-10 weeks, then in a crib in his own room.

zebrastripes · June 2011

I am debating on purchasing a bassinet. I bought one for DD and she hated it. I ended up using the crib from the beginning with her. I already have a pack and play with a built in changing table and bassinet so I was thinking about just setting this by the bed in the beginning. If LO does not like the pack n play, I will just use the crib and a baby monitor. The nursery is just going to be down the hall anyway so it will not be a big deal for me.

Jules08 · June 2011

Most likely the crib immediately. We do have a bassinet on the way so possibly that depending on the baby. We'll save our pack-n-play for other uses.

mbgreenwalt · June 2011

We will keep the baby in a Travel Lite Crib (mini PnP) next to my bed for 4-6 months.

I swore I was going to put DD in her crib from day 1. Well I got home from the hospital and couldn't do it, couldn't have her that far away so small. We had to go buy the Travel Lite Crib the next day.

inrut4dj · June 2011

Crib immediately. The nursery is basically connected to our bedroom so it's not far of a walk. Our dog and cat share the bed with us and I don't want them to change this part of their routine. I also want my husband to have as much uninterrupted sleep as possible while I'm on maternity leave.

adri77 · June 2011

In my room, in something appropriate, next to my bed! Haven't figured that out yet since we borrowed a bass. in the past, and that isn't an option this time!!!!

Want a personalized experience?

Where will your baby sleep as a newborn?

Re: Where will your baby sleep as a newborn?

Choose Another Board

Search Boards