Is just a cot ok???

[MantaRay]

The only thing I've heard is to make sure young babies are put down the bottom of the cot so they can't slip down and under the covers. If you don't wish to co-sleep there is no reason not to go straight to a cot I wouldn't think. I certainly wouldn't buy a bassinette, they don't last very long!

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

I was going to put DS in a cotbed from birth, until my mother intervened and bought a moses basket.

TBH, DS ended up in my bed more than his own! He went into his cotbed age 6m and OK he would have looked tiny in there from birth it wouldn't have been a bad option - so long as we used sleeping bags and not covers.

[Curly]

I put DS straight into his cot when we got home from hospital - with feet at the bottom of the cot etc etc. No problem. He was all swaddled up and tucked in with a cellular blanket so even though he looked tiny in the cot I doubt very much that he felt like he was marooned in a great big bed.

Couldn't see the point of a bassinette when he was going to grow out of it so quickly and then it would be another useless piece of outgrown baby equipment. And I didn't have to think about "transitioning" him to the cot.

If he was ever unsettled I would bring him into bed with me but truthfully that rarely happened. DS was always very good at night time, he would feed and go straight back to sleep.

[Daffodil Mumma]

Thanks for the input guys Im so much less confused on this one now And Im getting the idea that I dont really even need a snuggle bed, so long as they are wrapped or in a sleeping bag rather than under blankets......Hmm so much to get my head around LOL

[~clover~]

I would have loved to have a cradle, but never got one. All mine had a cot. DS was actually in a porta cot for the first few months til he went out of our room.

MIL made me promise to never have a bassinette coz she lost her DS3 at 3 months old in a bassinette to SIDS. I won't tell you how coz it sounds horrible, but I would never buy a bassinette now.

[Aphrael]

My DD1 went straight into a cot from birth following the SIDS guidelines, I got a free bassinett from a friend for DD2 (DD1 wasn't in a big bed yet and I didn't want to rush her into a big bed) and used that till the cot was set up again for DD2 to use.

Baby #3 will use the bassinett till he/she grows out of it as it does come in handy rolling baby around the house so he/she isn't alone to sleep.........All my kids sleep in the lounge room with the noise during the day and in a quiet room at night time when they are new.

Cheers,

Beck