thread: Bassinette or Cot?

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    Aug 2009
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    With MrJ, it was bassinet straight away and he never really ended up doing the cot thing much in the end because at 7 months (still in the bassinet) we started co-sleeping most the time and haven't gotten out of the habit until recently. MrT was co-sleeping with me at first, then I started putting him down in his bassinet at bed time, after the first night feed I attempt to put him back into the bassinet but then after that (if he wakes again) he comes into bed with me. They just look so tiny in the cots to me when they are first born, although I will definitely be putting bub in the cot when he gets bigger as I'm done with co-sleeping lol

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    We opted for no bassinette but got one of those Tetra snuggle beds and used that in the cot. Also used a hammock through the day if it was too hot in the back of the house.

    I also got the snugglebed secondhand because I just couldn't justify the expense buying it new when they are in it for such a short time.

    My theory was they are in the same "environment" being in the cot from the get go, its just the snugglebed removed when she got too big. Didn't seem to have any transition issues either

    Nae x