We don't have a cat...but I figure it's probably not too different from when we introduced our baby to our much loved and spoilt 'treated like a baby' dog.
We too let our dog come into the nursery when we were setting it up, but she was only allowed in there when we were (that's probably a little harder with a cat though). My DH also brought items home for our dog to smell before we brought Cameron home. Then when we got home, the first thing I did was go and give our dog lots of attention before we brought Cameron in. Then we sat on the lounge, let the dog sniff and tell her she was very good. Then when Cameron slept I would make sure I would give our dog lots of cuddles and attention. She has been really good with him and now Cameron's getting more mobile and eating lots of yummy foods, our dog I think has realised the benefits of having a baby around.
A couple of handy hints (what my cousin did with her cat anyway), might be to put a bunch of blown up balloons in the cot, that way the cat will get a fright when the nails pop them and hopefully will learn not to sleep there.
She also put up a fly screen door to help keep the cat out of the baby's room.
We have a Burmese, who sleeps between us in the bed, with her head on the pillow. She is, by her choice, an indoor precious cat, who is my furbaby. If she ever gets locked outside by accident, she cry's at the door ALL night until someone lets her in. If she see's me go and hop on the couch and cuddle dh, she will find us and snuggle in the middle.
Sorry, the reason I wrote the above is, I am unfortunatly not pregnant as yet, however I once watched a tv show, where the owners, put up a mesh security door on their baby's bedroom so they knew the cat/s could not get in the cradle/cot in the middle of the night.
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