I had a wooden cradle with Jasmyn, but she was only in it for 6 weeks, then we put her in her cot in her own room. We all slept better after that! I kept waking her up to check on her (so paranoid!) and I couldn't sleep properly with her snuffling! For this one, we are borrowing a bassinet, but I think I will also use it down stairs in the early weeks, so that I don't have to keep running up the stairs ever time the baby wakes.