Keeping Cats Out of Nursery

thewayiam · July 2011

When my mom was a baby, her mother found her, completely blue, with their family pet cat curled up across her neck. I have two cats and am a little more than paranoid about this.

I've been given a few ideas of how to keep cats out but wondered - if you have cats, what have you done/what do you plan to do?

julesjb · July 2011

I think we will just keep the door closed?? When I was little my mom put a screen door on the nursery lol

opallover · July 2011

I never did anything. Biscuit wasn't a big fan of Noah at first. Now they are the greatest friends - but at the start she would spend most of her day on our bed. She didn't even go near Noah until he was 4[ish] months! lol! Before Noah came she spent ALL of her time in his crib!

The pedis that I interviewed all said that nothing of the sort really happens - your mom must have been the exception! Sounds so scary for her mom! Good Luck!

hart0620 · July 2011

Honestly, we were just going to keep the door closed. Our cats aren't allowed in our room as it is so our door is always closed. I expect we will do the same thing with the nursery.

pennynjon · July 2011

We plan on keeping the door closed. The bany will be in our room the first few months and I am getting a monitor for the nursery. I am paranoid too. Plus my cat sheds so bad I don't want him in the baby's room.

Jamers822 · July 2011

We also plan on keeping the door closed when Emily is sleeping in the nursery or our room. We started closing the door to our bedroom at all times the last couple of weeks so our cat wouldn't associate being locked out of our room with the new baby. We also purchased a video monitor so I can keep an eye on her with the door closed. So far we haven't had a problem our cat still has the rest of the house to roam free in.

Eris-Alexis · July 2011

thewayiam:
When my mom was a baby, her mother found her, completely blue, with their family pet cat curled up across her neck. I have two cats and am a little more than paranoid about this.

I've been given a few ideas of how to keep cats out but wondered - if you have cats, what have you done/what do you plan to do?

I'm so glad you asked this. I am terrified of our cats doing something similar. They love to cuddle and I'm afraid they won't understand that they can't do that with LO.

damabo80 · July 2011

Our cat isn't that interested in DD. She'll sniff her, but that's as close as she's going to go. Which is interesting, as our cat is super friendly and loves to cuddle.

First, see how the cats will react...you may have cats that want nothing to do with your LO, and this question will probably becaome a mute issue.

Once DD starts sleeping anywhere besides next to me, then I'll close the door to her room when I'm not around and she's sleeping.

FWIW: the cat loves to sit in DD's bassinet/RNP/PNP...but only when DD is not in there. Oh, the cat is too fat to jump into the crib. Too high up for her.

BritanyV · July 2011

julesjb:
I think we will just keep the door closed?? When I was little my mom put a screen door on the nursery lol

When ds was born we contemplated putting a screen door for his room! We never did but we thought about it.

What we did was just kept the door closed, we started this before he was born so they would get used to not going into that room. If ds was sleeping in our bedroom in the cradle, we would keep our door closed and the cats out. We never had a problem.

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