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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

This PP doesn't know what they're talking about. There are factors that increase SIDS risk and there are factors that are preventative (can help reduce from the baseline). Think of it as wearing a seatbelt vs. speeding. If you're driving, not wearing a seatbelt won't increase your risk of a crash. But it will help protect you generally. However, speeding does increase the risk of the crash.

So:
- Parent who drinks/smokes/bedshares with baby: increases risk. The drinking/bedshare is really a misnomer though. What they're talking about is increasing risk of suffocating your kid. That's not really SIDS, but society has somehow decided that's what we're going to classify this as.
- Fan in room/Pacifier/Sleeping in own crib in room with parent: Can help reduce, but not doing it won't INCREASE risk from the baseline. The reason sleeping in your room helps is because the baby sleeps less soundly.

Now back to the question at hand: We used a mini-crib and transitioned the babies to the nursery around 8-9m.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

This PP doesn't know what they're talking about. There are factors that increase SIDS risk and there are factors that are preventative (can help reduce from the baseline). Think of it as wearing a seatbelt vs. speeding. If you're driving, not wearing a seatbelt won't increase your risk of a crash. But it will help protect you generally. However, speeding does increase the risk of the crash.

So:
- Parent who drinks/smokes/bedshares with baby: increases risk. The drinking/bedshare is really a misnomer though. What they're talking about is increasing risk of suffocating your kid. That's not really SIDS, but society has somehow decided that's what we're going to classify this as.
- Fan in room/Pacifier/Sleeping in own crib in room with parent: Can help reduce, but not doing it won't INCREASE risk from the baseline. The reason sleeping in your room helps is because the baby sleeps less soundly.

Now back to the question at hand: We used a mini-crib and transitioned the babies to the nursery around 8-9m.

Except that the vast majority of "SIDS" deaths are actually suffocation because the parent rolled onto the baby or there was smoke in the room, alcohol and drugs are often involved. They changed the rules for how SIDS deaths are categorized and the incidence shot up. True SIDS, where the baby just stops breathing, is extremely rare. Yes, in this instance it might have been avoided by the baby in the room, but when we talk about SIDS for 90+% of cases it is the first situation.