Has anyone had the baby sleep in their crib right away? Our nursery is right next to our bedroom so I was contemplating doing this, however I am just having a really hard time thinking about my baby sleeping in general. Let me preface the rest by saying that I lost my first daughter (not to SIDS- she was born at 20 weeks due to incompetent cervix) but I am very scared of losing another child and am super paranoid about SIDS.
Besides having baby sleep in his crib from night one, we have a few other options. We do have a PNP with bassinet attachment but it is already set up downstairs, and it is bigger and not as portable as I thought it would be. We also have a RnP. We could get a bassinet from a friend, but I am just not sure if we would use it when the weight limit is so low anyway.
One of my best friends is on the SIDS prevention state board and she said that they don't recommend babies sleep in RnPs or PNPs and that cribs, cradles, or bassinets are safest for baby. However I don't really like bassinets due to all the padding around them and she said she doesn't either. She said she thinks putting him in his crib from night one is a good idea because there isn't that transition later and it is safer than most sleeping places for baby anyway. I am just wondering what other new moms are doing.
Sorry so long and I am sure you are all thinking I am super paranoid- which I admit I am! TIA for your help and advice!
Re: Have baby sleep in crib from night one?
I read somewhere a while ago that it is rec'd to have the baby sleep in the same room as you for the first few months because it helps to regulate their breathing patterns (presumably because they can hear you breathing). I just found this: In his years of research on co-sleeping, Harvard psychiatrist Michael Commons has discovered that babies who sleep alone are at increased risk for SIDS and stress disorders. Co-sleeping babies sleep in physiological harmony with their mothers. The proximity of the mother and infant actually regulates the infant's breathing, sleep state, arousal patterns, heart rates and body temperature. Babies who are left to cry alone experience elevated levels of the stress hormone cortisol, which causes damage to the developing brain. "It makes you more prone to the effects of stress, more prone to illness, including mental illness and makes it harder to recover from illness," explains Commons.
The switch to a crib isn't that big a deal - you are going to be weaning your kid off of so many things in its young life (Bottles, Paci's, pureed food, naps etc.) - whats one more!
This is what we did, except he was in a PNP in our room for two nights. His room is right across the hall from ours. DD was in our room for the first 8 weeks in the bassinet part of the PNP.
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Yeah I'm kind of with all the PPs, how are RnPs and PnPs any less safe for baby than a crib? Especially the PnP, which is basically a crib with mesh siding. It just seems weird to me. But I second all the others that said them sleeping in your room is suppose to help prevent SIDS.
Also, you could look into the AngelCare monitor, which is a sensor that goes under the mattress to detect movement (breathing) and there's also a Snuza (which is what I have) which is a sensor that clips onto the front of their diaper and detects breathing as well. I know mine gave me a great piece of mind.
We've got the crib in our room (Our GP and what I've read suggest keeping the baby in the same room for SIDS prevention, so we went with our gut on it) and it's been the primary sleep space from day one (with a little unintentional sleeping on mom's lap after very sleepy feeds when I drop off, so we bought warm pyjamas and have no blankets on the bed).
I figured why introduce anything we'll have to get rid of? (barring major issues - if we'd got the kid who screams all night, we'd have probably tried something else) So far, well, we're sleep deprived. But R is one month old.
We use a crib from Ikea, it is smaller than most cribs and about the same size as a PNP so if you are set on using a crib you could try one of those since space is an issue.
Leaving your newborn to cry in their crib is a whole other story and doesn't have anything to do with being in a crib in their own room. Right? Right.
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Yes, thank you- I would never ever leave him to cry in his crib! As I said, his room is right next to ours. I could hear him without a monitor but I will definitely be getting an angel care or something similar just to be extra safe. As soon as he cries, I will be there!