Our cat wasn't even faintly interested in DS when he was born and would do anything she could do avoid him!! She never ever went into the cot/bassinette and has only ever sniffed other babies when they have been on the floor in a capsule near her.
yeah i was thinking of using netting as well around the bed, to try and discourage our cat from jumping up.
I dont want to put her outside as she has always been a house cat, but we will have to be strict with her and try and get her into the habit so she knows she is not allowed to go into the nursery
I dont think she has ever been around a baby before who knows what she will think of it lol, when we got out puppy our cat would hiss at it and run away maybe she will be scared of the bub lol
I found that whilst the cats were interested in the bassinet and cots whilst empty, they stayed away from them when there was a baby in there. I watched one of them one day jump up on the cot ready for a nap, only to see bubs in there, so she went elsewhere.
I did a heap of looking around on this awhile ago and could not find one article where a baby had actually be smothered by a cat.
There was a woman in my mothers group who had this ace little cot enclosure thing lol sounds weird but it was on top of drawers, with wooden frame with netting around it and a shelf thing on top, as they had a cat...She explained to me with a laugh that as they had spent 15 years on IVF to get their bubs and weren't ever to have another they didn't want to take any chances with the cat.
Not sure f you can buy them or hubby built it but it was pretty cool
We put a screen door at the top of our stairs so the cats can't get into our room or DS's room, but its only closed at night and cats never tried to get into the basinette or cot. It was useful to get them out of our bed (we part time co-sleep) as both cats liked to sleep in there - and they still come in if I'm in bed and the screen door isn't closed.
When we move to our new house we can't do that though so we'll have to close the door (and maybe put a baby monitor on our shopping list)
The cat was put in the laundry before DD arrived. Just at night time. She got used to it quickly and sometimes she even puts herself to bed. During the day the cat would be outside if I wasn't there to supervise or baby would be behind a closed door.
The cat wasn't really interested in the baby though.
Hi Shell, we have two inside cats. They love to checkout everything, infact, in the past 2 days I have found the male sleeping in the capsule and the pram! grrr. We bought a certain bassinet to discourage the cats, from going near it, and they can't get inside it as it has a canopy net on it. We have had it set up already, and the cats aren't interested in it.
The bassinet is here Valco Baby: ...because you care!
its a valco. Due to the shape of it, my cats can't even jump on it (I was just careful not to place it near the chest of draws, or anything they could jump on to get to it. but they leave it alone anyway)
He hung around alot when I renovated the nursery, he decided one day that the snuggle bed (which was inside the cot) was a nice place for a snooze - then he discovered the comfy baby blanket I had put on the change table.
So I gave him the comfortable blanket, put the side up on the cot and have put up the mosquito net. Now his favorite place in the nursery is on the window sill.
I have been quite vigilant when I leave the back of the house open and whenever I catch moggy sniffing around the nursery door I just say "out" he back chats a bit then leaves without entering the nursery.
We will have to keep an eye on him of course but thats part and parcel of being a pet owner and a to be parent.
TBH I am more worried about cat running off and never coming back because he is not "the baby" anymore
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