Snoo parents: did you wait until you were done with the snoo to get a crib?

[Anonymous]

We plan to use a Snoo for the first few months. We will also be hiring a night nurse a few times a week, so when she is here the Snoo will in the nursery and when it's just us the Snoo will be in our room. I'm struggling to decide whether I should buy a crib before the baby is born, as the nursery is really small (10x12) so fitting Snoo and crib in there would be very tight. Did you have them both ready for when baby came home, or did you wait to buy a crib?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We plan to use a Snoo for the first few months. We will also be hiring a night nurse a few times a week, so when she is here the Snoo will in the nursery and when it's just us the Snoo will be in our room. I'm struggling to decide whether I should buy a crib before the baby is born, as the nursery is really small (10x12) so fitting Snoo and crib in there would be very tight. Did you have them both ready for when baby came home, or did you wait to buy a crib?

Do you have a twin bed crammed in there for the night nurse too, or what? How can putting a bassinet next to a crib be too much furniture for a 10x12 room?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We plan to use a Snoo for the first few months. We will also be hiring a night nurse a few times a week, so when she is here the Snoo will in the nursery and when it's just us the Snoo will be in our room. I'm struggling to decide whether I should buy a crib before the baby is born, as the nursery is really small (10x12) so fitting Snoo and crib in there would be very tight. Did you have them both ready for when baby came home, or did you wait to buy a crib?

Do you have a twin bed crammed in there for the night nurse too, or what? How can putting a bassinet next to a crib be too much furniture for a 10x12 room?

No, the only other furniture in the room is a dresser/changing table combo and a glider. One of the walls of the room is unusable when it comes to furniture because the closet has French doors and the bedroom door opens onto that wall. Crib takes up a wall, dresser takes up a wall, not much space left 🤷🏻‍♀️

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We plan to use a Snoo for the first few months. We will also be hiring a night nurse a few times a week, so when she is here the Snoo will in the nursery and when it's just us the Snoo will be in our room. I'm struggling to decide whether I should buy a crib before the baby is born, as the nursery is really small (10x12) so fitting Snoo and crib in there would be very tight. Did you have them both ready for when baby came home, or did you wait to buy a crib?

Do you have a twin bed crammed in there for the night nurse too, or what? How can putting a bassinet next to a crib be too much furniture for a 10x12 room?

No, the only other furniture in the room is a dresser/changing table combo and a glider. One of the walls of the room is unusable when it comes to furniture because the closet has French doors and the bedroom door opens onto that wall. Crib takes up a wall, dresser takes up a wall, not much space left 🤷🏻‍♀️

It's a bassinet that will be in there on some but not all nights. It doesn't need a designated wall, or to worry about blocking the closet. It can go in the middle of the floor.

[Anonymous]

Yes get the crib now. You will want to start naps in the crib around 3 months so that baby gets used to it. Some cribs still take 12-16 weeks for delivery.

[Anonymous]

The snoo isn’t exactly mobile. It doesn’t fit through our doors so we have to take the legs off every time we need to move it. It’s also deceivingly heavy. That said, I guess you have to do what you have to do. That would not be my plan at all, but if you need to move the snoo back and forth every night and can’t fit a crib I don’t know why you’re crowd-sourcing opinions. It’s your house and you make it work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The snoo isn’t exactly mobile. It doesn’t fit through our doors so we have to take the legs off every time we need to move it. It’s also deceivingly heavy. That said, I guess you have to do what you have to do. That would not be my plan at all, but if you need to move the snoo back and forth every night and can’t fit a crib I don’t know why you’re crowd-sourcing opinions. It’s your house and you make it work.

Agree snoo is surprisingly heavy! I was also planning to move btw rooms but no longer do that. We keep in guest room and parent “on duty” stays in that room w kid to allow other parent to sleep. Newborn sleep is loud!

[Anonymous]

If you have a garage or a basement or something I’d probably order the crib
and mattress and put it in there. Just for delivery logistics.

I would definitely get a pack and play though.

[Anonymous]

If you have room to have the crib on standby (unassembled), I would do that. You don't know how long baby will like Snoo - our first stayed for 6 months, our second wanted more room at 4 months.

But you also don't have to have the Snoo against the wall.

[Anonymous]

None of this would have worked with my two kids. They’re great sleepers but we had a bedtime routine day 1 and part of that is sleeping in the same place in the same room with the same amount of light, surroundings, etc. Some kids really can sleep anywhere but I’ve found they’re the ones who took a lot longer to sleep through the night. I breastfed so never used a night nurse and don’t know what people usually do, but shuffling a newborn between rooms every night is a big no-no in every “sleep train without sleep training” method I know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:None of this would have worked with my two kids. They’re great sleepers but we had a bedtime routine day 1 and part of that is sleeping in the same place in the same room with the same amount of light, surroundings, etc. Some kids really can sleep anywhere but I’ve found they’re the ones who took a lot longer to sleep through the night. I breastfed so never used a night nurse and don’t know what people usually do, but shuffling a newborn between rooms every night is a big no-no in every “sleep train without sleep training” method I know.

I agree with this, big time. Mine was a sleep wherever, whatever newborn, and she became the worst sleeper on earth around 8 weeks and stayed that way through toddlerhood. Never slept through the night, ever. Looking back I feel this might be in part because we had a night doula, bassinet, and crib so baby slept in 3 different rooms on random days and it may have effected getting her into a routine. We got the Snoo at 3 months and it was a godsend, but impossible to wean off of.

My best advice is to get the Snoo but do not use it until and unless you have to. You might get a good sleeper who doesn’t need it, in which case better to avoid because it’s so hard to wean off of for many. Also sleep in one space in one crib. For my next I’m not even going to do a bassinet, just a mini crib from birth to minimize transitions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:None of this would have worked with my two kids. They’re great sleepers but we had a bedtime routine day 1 and part of that is sleeping in the same place in the same room with the same amount of light, surroundings, etc. Some kids really can sleep anywhere but I’ve found they’re the ones who took a lot longer to sleep through the night. I breastfed so never used a night nurse and don’t know what people usually do, but shuffling a newborn between rooms every night is a big no-no in every “sleep train without sleep training” method I know.

Ok, but does that mean you never stopped room sharing? Even if baby is in parent's room full time at first, that's going to have to change once they grow out of a bassinet/mini crib.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:None of this would have worked with my two kids. They’re great sleepers but we had a bedtime routine day 1 and part of that is sleeping in the same place in the same room with the same amount of light, surroundings, etc. Some kids really can sleep anywhere but I’ve found they’re the ones who took a lot longer to sleep through the night. I breastfed so never used a night nurse and don’t know what people usually do, but shuffling a newborn between rooms every night is a big no-no in every “sleep train without sleep training” method I know.

Ok, but does that mean you never stopped room sharing? Even if baby is in parent's room full time at first, that's going to have to change once they grow out of a bassinet/mini crib.

If you weren’t anonymous I’d mail you a few sleep method books. Sounds like you’re at ground zero.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:None of this would have worked with my two kids. They’re great sleepers but we had a bedtime routine day 1 and part of that is sleeping in the same place in the same room with the same amount of light, surroundings, etc. Some kids really can sleep anywhere but I’ve found they’re the ones who took a lot longer to sleep through the night. I breastfed so never used a night nurse and don’t know what people usually do, but shuffling a newborn between rooms every night is a big no-no in every “sleep train without sleep training” method I know.

Ok, but does that mean you never stopped room sharing? Even if baby is in parent's room full time at first, that's going to have to change once they grow out of a bassinet/mini crib.

If you weren’t anonymous I’d mail you a few sleep method books. Sounds like you’re at ground zero.

I am, first baby on the way and none of my friends have kids yet. Mind sharing the names of the books here?

[Anonymous]

I would go ahead and get the crib and leave it unassembled until needed if you can. A dear friend gayme her crib and we set it up a month or two before baby was born, even though baby slept in the snoo in our room for about six months. We kept the crib in the nursery, though we found that moving to the crib and a new room at the same time was too much change all at once and crammed the full size crib in our room for a few months and then transitioned to nursery.

I didn't use a night nurse, but I think the people I know who did still had the baby in their room and the nurse came in when needed