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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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![/quote]

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.[/quote]

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