options when baby grows out of bassinet but must stay in parents room

[Anonymous]

Hello,

FTM here. After much thinking I gave in and got a bassinet. Once the baby grows out of the bassinet, then what? Do most people keep the crib in their bedroom for the first year or do they transition to something else before the crib? I've read you need to keep baby in bedroom 6 months to a year. I'm considering putting the crib up in the bedroom but it's big. What did everyone else do?

[Anonymous]

I put the crib in my room. I never bothered with a bassinet.

[Anonymous]

I kept my first kid in my room till four months then transitioned to crib in their room. Second kid was in a crib in their room from night one. I think the suggestions are unrealistic and my second is a much better sleeper.

[Anonymous]

I never kept the baby in my room. I wasn’t living in a palace so the baby’s room was steps away.

[Anonymous]

One night myq baby had a massive spitup at 10pm in her bassinet so I put her in the crib in her room that night at 6 weeks old as there was no way to wash everything in a timely matter. It went so well I ended up just keeping her in there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hello,

FTM here. After much thinking I gave in and got a bassinet. Once the baby grows out of the bassinet, then what? Do most people keep the crib in their bedroom for the first year or do they transition to something else before the crib? I've read you need to keep baby in bedroom 6 months to a year. I'm considering putting the crib up in the bedroom but it's big. What did everyone else do?

I have three children and all three slept in a crib in a separate room from day one. All three are grown and never had a problem. Ridiculous to keep child in room with you.

[Anonymous]

About a month in the bassinet in our room for our convenience, so I didn't have to move too far in the middle of the night; then baby went to crib in his room, big boy bed at age 2, where he still sleeps 16 years later (at least for five more months). We never needed a monitor -- I could hear every fuss and cry even from a different floor of the house.

Second baby was never in our room.

[Anonymous]

Why does the baby have to stay in your room? Serious question. If out of necessity I would prob get a small crib like from ikea. If it’s just because you read it in a book, then put the baby in its own room in the crib you have already. There is no reason the baby” needs” to stay in your room. You do what works for your family.

[Anonymous]

Mini crib or pack and play.

[Anonymous]

3 babies moved into their own rooms at about 3-4 months (when we sleep trained). At that age we started to wake them up and vice versa. Babies don't "need" to be in your room until they're 1. But if you want them to be, pack and play or crib.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why does the baby have to stay in your room? Serious question. If out of necessity I would prob get a small crib like from ikea. If it’s just because you read it in a book, then put the baby in its own room in the crib you have already. There is no reason the baby” needs” to stay in your room. You do what works for your family.

It's a CDC suggestion to reduce risk of SIDS. HOWEVER, this is meant for people who are drinking, on drugs etc and might not be attentive to the cries of their baby. Like many of the CDC recommendations, it's meant for the worst possible situation but presented as a blanket recommendation because it's not like they can say "hey poor people, this only applies to you".

If you are a responsible parent there is no need to have your baby in the room with you, unless you prefer that for convenience.

[Anonymous]

My baby was in the nursery in his crib from about 4 weeks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hello,

FTM here. After much thinking I gave in and got a bassinet. Once the baby grows out of the bassinet, then what? Do most people keep the crib in their bedroom for the first year or do they transition to something else before the crib? I've read you need to keep baby in bedroom 6 months to a year. I'm considering putting the crib up in the bedroom but it's big. What did everyone else do?

I have three children and all three slept in a crib in a separate room from day one. All three are grown and never had a problem. Ridiculous to keep child in room with you.

The reason I know you are full of it is that everyone else on the thread is like "this is what I did and it worked" and you're like "this is what I did and everyone who does anything else is an idiot." It makes your advice untrustworthy. Can you see that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why does the baby have to stay in your room? Serious question. If out of necessity I would prob get a small crib like from ikea. If it’s just because you read it in a book, then put the baby in its own room in the crib you have already. There is no reason the baby” needs” to stay in your room. You do what works for your family.

I agree people should just do what works for your family, but sometimes you don't know what is going to work until you are in the middle, and it's useful to be prepared.

For instance, we kept the baby in our room at first for convenience (newborns wake up a lot, and I wanted the comfort of my own bed and the convenience of the baby nearby during that period). And then we didn't move her to her own room until about 8 months simply because the set up we had was working. Everyone was getting enough sleep, I still liked the convenience of having the baby nearby for dream feeds and early morning feeds, even once she was STTN, it was nice to be able to change her in the morning and then just bring her into the bed with us once we were awake but before we were really ready to be up. It wasn't some kind of principled stance, it just unfolded that way.

But if you'd asked me before the baby was born, I would have told you that our plan was to move her to her own room early on because I value my own sleep a lot and I thought it would be more disruptive than it turned out to be.

OP, we used a pack and play, but got a mattress insert so it would be a bit more comfortable than that cardboard mattress it comes with. We used the bassinet insert initially but then removed it once our baby was rolling over and no longer in a swaddle. It wasn't perfect but worked well enough. I started using the crib in her room for naps very early on (basically as soon as naps started to organize themselves, around 4 months), so her transition to her room at night was pretty uneventful because she'd been sleeping in there during the day for many months.

[Anonymous]

My 19 month old chunk is still in the Pack n Play. Siblings room is too full of trendy crap and I would just worry about it.