Bassinet and Crib question

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Anonymous wrote:To the mom who says they outgrow quickly- this is true! Just get a nice one off facebook marketplace and then sell it again easily (probably for the same price you paid) when they outgrow it. I didn't even keep mine between babies because they were too bulky.

Or join your local buy nothing group. I've seen so many bassinets on mine! You can always buy a new mattress if you want to.

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Both of our kids (and now planning to do with number three as well) were in a pack and play (that had a feature where the "mattress" can be higher, like at the level of a bassinet...do they all have that?) in our room. Both of our kids were excellent sleepers and continued to be so when they transitioned to their own cribs at 6 weeks. They also were big, which I've heard can help with sleep, but I always wondered if it's because they slept in something similar to a crib from day 1, so there was no major transition. Since we need a pack and play for travel anyways (and it can be used for quite a while) it seemed like a no-brainer to just use it.

And at first we swaddled them to keep them feeling cozy.

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Anonymous wrote:How long do you think it is necessary to use a bassinet? I’m looking at the Snoo rental option, but mot sure if it makes financial sense for more than a couple months...

I’m the person who mentioned the snoo rental. I think realistically usually people transition out by 3 or 4 months. I’m thinking about three months of rental. It’s not the cheapest option, that’s for sure. But my first baby was very rough with sleep the first months and I’ve heard good things so I’m willing to pay almost anything for more potential sleep (privileged statement I know?

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Didn’t mean question mark to the privilege statement

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How long do you think it is necessary to use a bassinet? I’m looking at the Snoo rental option, but mot sure if it makes financial sense for more than a couple months...

I’m the person who mentioned the snoo rental. I think realistically usually people transition out by 3 or 4 months. I’m thinking about three months of rental. It’s not the cheapest option, that’s for sure. But my first baby was very rough with sleep the first months and I’ve heard good things so I’m willing to pay almost anything for more potential sleep (privileged statement I know?

The Snoo is technically marketed to be for 0-6 months but I think many babies transition out at the 4-5 month mark (I'm in a Snoo fbook group for tips and tricks, I think 4.5-5ish months seems most common). Ours was in the Snoo until 5 months when I felt comfortable transitioning him to his own room in the crib (he was probably over the motion a few weeks earlier and we weren't swaddling his arms down anymore at that point so having him clipped in felt so dumb). BUT do the math - there is a huge resale market for the Snoo and it may make more sense to buy it (if you can get it on Sale. Also Amazon sells it now, add it to your registry for end of registry discount) and resell it for $700-800 when you're done if you think you'll use it for 4+ months. We bought ours because we plan to have more kids, but even if we weren't I think we'd have bought and resold and it would have come out much better than renting for 4-5 months.

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I liked (and will use with next baby) the "Arm's Reach Co-sleeper" which *doesn't put the baby in the bed*, it is just next to the bed so you can sit up and nurse the baby then reach over and put the baby back.
You can avoid the pitfalls of the warnings against suffocating as long as your baby's "bed" doesn't have a cushy mattress, doesn't have pads around it, extra blankets, or plush anything. The Arms Reach Co-sleeper has a very thin mat that would virtually be impossible to suffocate on if baby rolled for some reason. It felt very safe to me.

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Another mom who sued the Arms Reach. The standard sized one is the same size as a pack 'n' play which we found very useful.

I'm one of those "crazy" people who had baby in our room for 14 months. We used the arms reach at the co-sleeper setting until 6months, when baby hauled himself out of the co-sleeper and onto our bed. We dropped the mattress down at that point. Around 1 year we added a minicrib mattress. When we moved baby to his own room at 14 months, we kept him in the arms reach until we switched to a floor bed set-up at 18 months. So, yes, no traditional crib at all and I'm aware of how unusual that is. But it worked for us.

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Anonymous wrote:Hey all, FTM mom here with few friends with have children. I am confused about whether to get a bassinet and a crib. I was planning to have a crib in the nursery (my brother is giving us his 3 year old's really nice crib) and then a bassinet for our bedroom for the first few months. The American Pediatric association recommends the baby sleep in room with parent for a few months or so due to SID prevention, so I am willing to do whatever is considered safest. Also i see lots of Moms on here do this. I was planning to have bassinet in bedroom and then move to crib in nursery after a few months. However, now I am reading that bassinets are considered unsafe compared to crib. So I'm confused! Do I just move the crib into the bedroom? Seems weird. Are bassinets considered unsafe in general because some of them have had issues compared to cribs. I was thinking if I get a safe and well regarded bassinet with firm mattress that it would be just as safe as having a crib in our room, no? Anyway, I am all over the place clearly and likely obsessing over details as a FTM and overthinking things. Any advice from your seasoned moms would be awesome!

I have a now 22-month old. I was pretty obsessive about the safe sleep rules when she was a newborn. I still think they are very important, but I also think it's important to have some flexibility (such as using a JPMA certified bassinet) depending on your situation. SIDS has a lot of risk factors (premature birth, underlying medical conditions, parents that drink or smoke, putting baby to sleep on tummy) and while SIDS does occur in babies without those risk factors, it's very very rare. With bedsharing for example, there is a big debate about the AAP's recommendation not to bedshare, since many families will do it anyway and risk is very small if you do so safely (we did not bedshare and never wanted to). Room-sharing until 6 months does not work for many families and the level of risk reduction if you are following all the other rules is very small (we stopped room sharing at 4 months). I would just say that you don't need to do every single recommendation exactly to the letter as long as you are not drinking or smoking around the baby and putting baby to sleep on her back on a safe firm surface without loose blankets or pillows.