Travel crib as permanent bed in between bassinet and crib
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Baby is 5 months and too long for her bassinet. I’m not ready to put the whole crib up because that means putting her in with my older DD and I’d rather not do that until baby is sleeping thru the night.
Thinking a travel crib might be a good in between and more useful than a mini crib. Right now we move her bassinet from our room to another depending on days we WFH etc. Looking at the lotus guava one and a standard pack n play. Does anyone have opinions on either as a bed for a few months? |
Anonymous
| We did this. It worked great. |
Anonymous
| We have the guava and our kids have both always seemed happy and comfortable in it. It would probably get a little tiresome on your back but otherwise fine. It has the other opening though I didn’t find I used it that much at that age so I’m not certain you’d use it a lot but at least an option. |
Anonymous
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Yes I did this, it worked great. I like the lotus because you can unzip the side which is great once they can crawl— you don’t always have to reach in to get them.
Though you do have to be able to lay them down in there, so make sure your back can handle it. Especially if you have a baby who tends to fall asleep during feeds, as we did. Even when we were aiming for “drowsy but awake” she was often just passed out. But we managed. |
Anonymous
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Op: yes I’m most worried about my back!
Maybe there is a niche market for bassinets for long babies lol. She’s nowhere near the weight limit so I was hoping to make it work longer. |
Anonymous
Can you just do the travel crib for nighttime sleep and use her crib or another container for naps? That will at least cut down on how much you have to lift her in and out while she's still too young to pull herself up (at which point it gets a bit easier to do this part, though also they are heavier so it also gets harder!). You could also try the travel crib and see how it goes, and if it's really uncomfortable for you, just bite the bullet on the crib. OR you could set the crib up in your bedroom and just plan on moving it to your older DD's room when it's time. That may require dismantling the crib and putting it back together, but it might be worth it. The thing about bassinets and long babies is that the main reason you're supposed to move babies out of the bassinet is that once they can roll and sit up, the bassinet poses a falling risk because it's too shallow. We had to move our baby out of the bassinet at like 2.5 months because she was rolling, could push her head and chest several inches off the ground, and was starting to reach out and grab the edge of the bassinet and pull. It was hilarious because at first I was like "oh wow my baby is SO advanced, she's a genius" and then I realized that it meant she was super mobile at like 3 months old and I was screwed. A classing FTM mistake! |
Anonymous
| My small seven months old sleeps in a Chicco lullago. It's much bigger than the snoo we just transitioned out of and is buying me some time before I use his crib. I tried a travel bassinet without legs during a trip and my great sleeper was a nightmare. |
Anonymous
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we did this and it was fine. the mattress of the guava is not entirely smooth though as it can be folded up, after LO was 1+ we put some additional bedding on it mostly as i was feeling bad about him sleeping on the thin mattress with indentations, he didnot seem to care.
We never did the crib though and at 2+ he insisted on leaving the zip open, then crawling out and sleeping on the floor and at that point we transitioned him to a regular bed. friends with babies in cribs transitioned ot the bed much later and so did not have to deal with the popping out of bed so early on. |
Anonymous
| The pack and play has a bassinet insert, which basically lifts the entire mattress up, but I think it's only rated for 15 pounds. We used it when our DD outgrew her bassinet, but we weren't ready to move her to her room yet. |
Anonymous
| We did this for a few months with a pack n play. Kind of wish we had gotten something nicer like a guava - the pack n play doesn't seem that comfortable with the way the mattress segregates, though my baby (now toddler) never seemed to mind. |
Anonymous
Have you looked at mini cribs? |
Anonymous
OP here yes but I was hoping to just buy one thing, and we need the travel crib. But maybe it's worth just getting a mini cirb that folds so we can move from room to room. Does anyone have experience with those. I was just looking at this one: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0035ER8JO/ref=twister_B089N736S4?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1 |