Baby 6weeks and won’t fit into moses basket!!!

[mama_77]

Hi everyone, i’m typing this while little buster sleeps so i’ve only got a few minutes as he only tends to take 40 winks at a time!

My question is this: My chap is a very long baby and is really thriving thank God but the moses basket that we have for him to sleep in is too small now. We thought it’d do us 3 months or so until he goes into his cot (it’s a massive cotbed and maybe too big for him right now)….Does anybody have any ideas what i could put him into until he’s ready to sleep in the cot? Are travel cots any good and if so, could somebody recommend one? I’m not looking for a huge one ‘cos it’d be nice still having him snug as he’s still a newborn.

thanks again, hope everyone’s keeping well!
Mama_77
xx

[Fabienne]

My kids slept in travel cots with added decent matress.
The one I have has a special thing were you can place your baby at mi-hight (as long baby’s not moving).
It was handy and safe.

Or if you want to use from now your cot bed you can make it shorter by rolling a blanket in the middle of it.
So it’s not too long and the baby will still have the cosy feeling needed.
Hope it helps.

Fabienne

[ed1]

I put DS2 into his cot from the day I brought him home. The cot was in my room. DS1 was in the moses basket for about 2 months and then I put him in the cot in my room for a while too.

[sweetpea1979]

i too had DS1 in moses basket for first two weeks but then put him into cot – DS2 went into cot from day one. could do as Fabienne suggested to make it snug – i also saw on tele ages ago, if you take two blankets and roll each one into a sausage and place on either side of where baby will sleep and put a sheet over the blankets – kind of tuck them in and then you put baby inbetween the two blankets….ie blankets on either side of baby…that way keep baby snug and secure… hope that helps and makes sense?!!!

[missysmum]

yup, dd also was a very long baby and was outof the moses in a couple of weeks. we too did the sausage blankets along side of bigger cot and it worked a treat. just make sure they are secure and safe and as baby gets bigger and starts to move more, take them out. also had a friend who put two long skinny draft excluders under the fitted base sheets at the side and this worked a treat too.

[munchin]

i moved both my girls into their cots in their own rooms at 6weeks with no trouble so no reason why he can’t go into the cot. My sister moved her little fella into his cot when he was a few weeks too BUT she kept the cot in her room – so tis up to yourself
on travel cots – the graco ones are very good

[Jenny!!!]

Our baby sleeps in a swinging cradle in our room, they can stay in it for the six months and then be moved to big cot in their own room after or before that, they are great and so comfy, there is a lovely one i saw in smyths, 79.99, its a great price. think the mattress is 20 euro.

[chewieodie]

I used both the moses basket, and had the graco travel cot with the bassinet at the top…. one of the best buys I ever made! smaller than the cotbed, but accessible, and roomy enough too….

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