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September 2018 Moms
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Product Spotlight 6/2: Things Baby Sleeps In Other Than Cribs
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Please use the prompts below to try to share as much relevant info as you can in a format that is easy for those reading to absorb/respond to. If you'd like to recommend/ask questions about more than one product, please copy/paste the prompts as needed.
For S+TMs:
- Favorite [place for baby to sleep]:
- Link/picture:
- Cost (either actual dollar amount, or just $, $$, $$$, etc.):
- What you like about it:
- What you don't like about it, if anything:
- Is there a [sleeping apparatus] you don't have but are considering? Why?:
- Is there a [sleeping apparatus] you've tried that you absolutely hate? Why?:
- Additional thoughts on [sleeping apparatus + accessories]?:
For FTMs
- [Sleeping apparatus] you're interested in:
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- Cost (either actual dollar amount, or just $, $$, $$$, etc.):
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Re: Product Spotlight 6/2: Things Baby Sleeps In Other Than Cribs
https://www.little-bugzy.com/products/bugzy-hammock
It's the Tiny Love 3-in-1 rocker.
My dad got us this pack n play: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00QHK8TWS?colid=3J43K4LQJG8QZ&coliid=I4TH7SURKY9UA&ref=br_ADD_TO_CART_title_link It's got the napper & changing area.
We'll see what we use the most I suppose, one will be in our bedroom and the other will be wherever. It really depends on how the puppy responds to baby and what our real life looks like.
For S+TMs:
I’m looking at getting either the Halo or the Tiny Love 3 in 1 this time around.
my guess is that it would be OK (approved by a ACOG) for supervised sleep only, but not overnight sleep (much like the rock n play)
SwaddleMe By Your Side Sleeper https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00YBADM1O/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_c_api_i_EeufBbCE60NXN
Only used a couple times on road trips where I didn’t want to pack a pack and play. It worked fine and was good for that one gross hotel room that where I didn’t even want to sleep in the bed
Pack and play- used for on a couple longer trips. Worked ok but I felt like he didn’t get great sleep in it.
Rock and play- For the first month. He slept great but then I found out it wasn’t a safe sleeping option.
Snuggabunny swing- For naps, we kept it in the living room/kitchen so we were always close. Best thing ever. He would sleep so long and sound in that thing. I dreaded the day he hit his weight limit
Snugabunny Swing: this was the go to nap location. We kept it in the living room, DD loved it. I hope this baby does as well!
Not necessarily for sleeping but.....
Peg Perego siesta high chair: this high chair reclines almost flat and I would wheel it around to wherever I was doing something (shower, dishes, table) so that DD had a place close to the action but still suitable for a newborn. Any high chair that fully reclines will do the same job and then we also obviously used it as a high chair
Little tikes toddler swing: at our old house the laundry was in the unfinished basement. I installed hooks on the rafters to hang the swing and once DD could sit up this is where she got to hang out while I did laundry. She thought it was a good time
Daughter #2 - Oct 2014
Daughter #3 - Nov 2016
Baby #4 - Sept 2018
I had a swing and a vibrating chair (hand-me-down items) as back ups, and a PNP with an infant bassinet and changing station. Loved the PNP. Will buy another this time around. My reflux child HATED the swing so keep receipts ladies! You just never know.
That baby hammock scares me. I don't get why you'd want to suspend your baby in the air.
My daughter slept in her own crib in her own room since the day we brought her home from the hospital at 4 days old. Mind you, we had a small townhouse and just enough room to walk around the bed in the master bedroom so no room for any sleeping apparatus, and her crib was probably like 10 feet from our bed even though it was her own room!
We used a pack-and-play for daytime naps so I could sit on the couch while she slept nearby. No infant attachment or anything--just flat like a regular crib.
We had a swing that she never got into...didn't hate it, but didn't like it either.
The only other places she ever slept were in the car seat (typically attached to the stroller out on walks) or in my arms.
This time we have room in our master bedroom (we've moved) for a bassinet; I got one free from a friend. Baby will likely sleep there for at least the first couple weeks, for convenience and so the crying hopefully won't wake my daughter.
I also bought a rock-n-play, planning to use for naps or at least a place to put the baby down, in the family room. We'll also set up the pack-n-play, but probably mainly use that for a changing table...unless she's happy laying flat for her naps, and then I'm happy to let her sleep there too!
For me, with my first her naps were very unpredictable. I didn't want to have to put her down upstairs and then keep running up there whenever she cried. I liked having places to put her down for a nap near where I'd be...the living room, kitchen, etc.
We never used our swing or RNP for overnight sleep, but they were extremely helpful for naps or having somewhere to put baby down. The biggest benefit of the RNP was for baby to have somewhere to hang out while I showered!
MMC 8/5/15 at 8 weeks
DS born 9/13/16
BFP 1/13/18 - EDD 9/20/18 - It's a boy!
@DanyTargaryen @patience7150 The nursery will have a crib, we will have a bassinet (that can rock side to side)in our room, and then a pack n play. I’m aware that I might deal with more crying, and maybe I’ll be eating my words later. But earlier this year, a good friend of mine lost her baby to SIDS. It was horrible. Baby had a runny nose and fell asleep in the rock n play and didn’t wake up. (A family member was watching them.) That’s when we did our research and decided to avoid them.
MMC 8/5/15 at 8 weeks
DS born 9/13/16
BFP 1/13/18 - EDD 9/20/18 - It's a boy!
@Redpuma119 I have incredible SIDS anxiety. I tried to avoid all baby items in their entirety, but in those first few weeks home I was desperate for just a minute that I a) bought things in haste without doing the research I'd have liked, or b) realize in retrospect that I may have put my kid in danger with the cloudiness of my thoughts (like placing her in a fluffy boppy). I absolutely understand your fears, and maybe even share them, but I would strongly recommend *something* you can be comfortable with to set baby down for just a second because peeing one handed or while a kid screams is really hard to deal with. My kiddo loved sitting in the bjorn bouncer and looking around at us, and the peg perego high chair mentioned previously was a godsend since you can adjust the back as they get older (and eventually it's a highchair). I also do have a RnP but the weight limit on that is so low it's a useless hunk of junk before you know it and I regret buying it. I did not let DD sleep in any of these, and transferred her to my arms or a flat surface if she fell asleep. Again, both of these were bought in haste and are effin' expensive, so I wish I'd have capitalized on deals beforehand instead of buying in haste. Just my 2 cents and offering unsolicited advice.
@EErin86 I tagged you in a different thread but we are considering just using a pack n play as our bassinet. Any downfalls to that? Anything I am not thinking of as to why I wouldn't want to do that?
- Favorite [place for baby to sleep]: Wasn't my first choice, but Rock n Play and my bed (cosleeping
- Cost (either actual dollar amount, or just $, $$, $$$, etc.): Both free. There are so many RNP out there, I managed to borrow one, and I have a different one lined up to borrow this time.
- What you like about it: Space saving! He didn't sleep in RNP until he had some head control, because the angle concerned me for chin-to-chest gpptmp. But, my son had terrible reflux and couldn't sleep on his back until he was probably 11 months old. Even in the NICU they put him on an angle or on his tummy (which they said was only safe because they had oxygen sensors on him) because for 60-90 min after eating, his oxygen fell lower on his back due to digestive issues. It was still in safe range, but was always lower on his back...wtf kid? So my choice very very young was on my chest or on his belly further away. So he literally slept on my chest at night, and on me or on his belly wherever I was for naps so I could keep my eye on him. When he was 2-3 months old he switched to RNP. I know the risks, and I understand why other people make choices to avoid them, but it still seemed better than on me always. I am the world's lightest sleeper, so I wasn't worried about him rolling off or anything because I would wake up if his breathing so much as changed, so I needed a way to get slightly more sleep. He took naps and did first leg of nighttime in RNP until 5.5 months old. Then he woke to nurse and I pulled him into our bed. He slept on his side after falling asleep nursing. At 5.5 months he started moving too much and getting too heavy for RNP and we went to full time in our bed. his sleep got much much worse until I gave up on the back to sleep-because flat on back he wouldn't sleep more than 15 min alone....we did that for weeks and I quit. I felt better snuggled next to him on his side or belly than with him in another room on belly. He would nap in anyone's bed-we just built barricades to keep him safe. At a year old he started crawling out of bed when he woke up from naps, and his reflux was much better, so we slowly crib transitioned. Also, RNP was so easy to move around and bring with places.
- What you don't like about it, if anything: I didn't like concerns of SIDS, but I weighed my options. Also, again, avoided sleeping in RNP until old enough to pick his head up, and used safe co-sleeping practices.
- Is there a [sleeping apparatus] you don't have but are considering? Why?: An in-bed co-sleeping surround, less fear of baby rolling away-they make great mesh sided ones.
- Is there a [sleeping apparatus] you've tried that you absolutely hate? Why?: Traditional bassinets-I had an older one from family-but the width on the base stuck out so far-I stubbed my toes on it constantly, and woke up baby. It also didn't save much space on pack and play, because of how wide the legs were, and weight maxed out at 15 lbs. That was at less than 3 months old for my preemie.... The pack and play bassinet had disadvantage of taking up so much floor space, taking a long time to set up, and still having top weight of 15 lbs. Even if it had worked well for us for him to sleep flat, I couldn't have gotten him in and out of the bottom regular area yet because of the lifting and bending issues I had. We love our pack and play now though, as a portable toddler crib.
- Additional thoughts on [sleeping apparatus + accessories]?: trying out a mini crib in our room for baby. Hopefully baby can sleep laying flat right away, and then will be only a foot from me, but protected, so I can hopefully sleep sounder. If it doesn't work, we'll go back to co-sleeping and/or RNP.
Even if you don't want your kid to sleep in RNP for sleeping-they make the best place to set down a reflux baby for a few minutes to shower or faun. My son hated the swing and bouncy chair at our house-though he loved the ones at my moms, so I needed somewhere angled to set him down!DH: 32
Married 7/18/15
1st born at 35+4 on 6/6/16
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2nd born at 38+6 on 8/30/18
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Here is what we registered for: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07C35B3KB?colid=WNCKT9KUWSTB&coliid=I364LZL53IZKK3&ref=br_ADD_TO_CART_title_link
So, if we intend to use the bassinet attachment only for supervised naps and have the baby sleep on the flat surface of the PnP overnight, should we be getting a mattress for the PnP? It seems like we should. Does anyone have reccomendations for safe infant mattresses to be used in a PnP?
Edited, my bad, the one you linked is just the bouncer, changing thing, bassinet. The bouncer does look useful for moving around the house:) do they make a hanging storage thing to put diapers/wipes for the changing station?
We like it because we we need a changing station in our bedroom and a bassinet. We like that the PnP can be used in a variety of ways as the kid gets older (like play pen and then toy storage). But, I’m just worried - what if the baby won’t sleep in it? I guess no matter what we get I will have the same question.
We LOVED the FP Rock n Play! That was worth purchasing hands down. Next in line to that would be the Dream on Me pack n play 3” mattress. We used it so much for travel and it was so much nicer for our son to sleep on then that padded cardboard “mattress” that comes with the Pack n Plays.
And of course the crib. We did use bumper pads when our son was 8-9 months +.