HELP.... need advice

[MummyNaomi]

We never used the monitor until we started using the cot. When DS was in the cradle we'd just push it to where-ever we were - is it easily portable?

[LuluHB]

We had the reverse set up of you - our bedroom downstairs and the girls' upstairs so night times they slept in the cradle next to me and day sleeps (ha ha - not that they happened often!) were upstairs in the cot. Not sure if your monitor is the same set up as mine, but I set the motion pads up in the cot (even a little breeze can be enough to move your cradle sufficiently to fool it into thinking there is a baby breathing in there) and moved the monitor from upstairs to downstairs as I needed, unplugging the cord from the pads as needed, so I could at least keep an ear on them before bed for us/after getting up like you said.

[Silver Bell]

thanks for all your help girls I think I will go with downstairs in the cot... if bubs is still sleeping in the morning I will just have to keep an eye on him... if he goes to sleep early then I can can stay upstairs in the lounge room so I am in an ear shot of him...

ah so many things to think about....

[Cranky Kitten]

Definitely go with the cot - if bub is having a sleep in it's a good excuse to have one yourself