What are you going to do with your baby?

[mrsmummy2]

So with our first daughter we still lived with my parents, so after having food in the evening me & my hubby would go up to our room and Lily was in with us in her moses basket right through then until the morning.
This time we're in our own house, so totally different situation.

Wondering where you put baby in the evenings?

He won't have his own room as he's going to share with Lily when he goes into a cot. So we can't put him in his room. We can keep him in our room, but I'm not sure about leaving him alone upstairs for what could be hours and hours? I know we can check on him.. but still.
Otherwise we keep him downstairs with us until we go to bed.

This post may sound ridiculous, but I just feel clueless

 

[ericacaca]

I think we kept our LO with us until we went to bed until he was around 6 - 8 weeks and had the baby monitor on xxx

 

[susywoosy]

Our LO has his own room but because he'll b sleeping in his moses basket in our room for first 4-6 months, he'll b downstairs with us til we go to bed. We did the same with DD after she was born and she transitioned to her cot in her own room at 6 months beautifully.

Dont know how easily she will continue to go to bed when she figures out her wee brother stays downstairs til we go to bed. Have to play that one by ear x

 

[SazzleR]

I plan to do the same as I did with DS. Keep baby with us downstairs, probably asleep in the pram, in the evening until we go to bed. Then transfer to the Moses basket in our room after a feed. I did this cos DS was a big cluster feeder so would wake frequently throughout the evening. After 6ish weeks, his feeding settled down so I'd put him in his Moses basket in our room after bath time with the baby monitor. That way we could eat, clear up & have a bit of couple time without having to tip tie around.

 

[cait]

We will most likely keep LO in Moses basket in the living room until we go to bed, for the first few months. Same as we did with DD.

 

[catty]

We live in a flat so our bedroom is about a metre from our living room, i can here everything.
With Lucas i took his moses basket into the living room then took him to bed when we went until he was a few months old. After that i was happy to put him in our room and check every 15 mins or so, he went to bed about 10pm anyway until he was about 3 or 4 months old so it weas never long until i went to bed.

 

[Hazybaby84]

I have got two Moses baskets, one for downstairs and one for upstairs. So my lo can stay downstairs with us till bedtime. x

 

[Misscalais]

He will be in a cradle next to my side of the bed until he out grows in ( hoping to get 4-6 months ) then depending in where we are living he will either be sharing with his brothers or have his own room.

 

[xdxxtx]

With both of my kids, I had a safe place (and easily accessible for newborn use) upstairs and downstairs for baby to sleep in. That way, if I was downstairs, my baby was, too. When I went upstairs, I could take baby and put them in in the other bed (a pack 'n' play with a bassinet on top for downstairs, a co-sleeper bassinet for upstairs). I plan on doing the same with this baby because it was GREAT for me to just peek in on baby and know that they're doing just fine.

 

[Night Flower]

Baby will be with us until she is ready to be in her own room and in her crib.

 

[Diana5241]

Oh- I hadn't thought of this! DS had colic and wouldn't sleep for more than 30 min so it was a null issue.... But if DD actually sleeps I'm going to be clueless for the best option. I'm so happy you asked this!

 

[smallhelen]

Thank you for this thread! Was beginning to wonder the same thing myself. I think the plan is: we have a Moses basket, which can stay downstairs, and we are borrowing a crib from my friend, which we will put upstairs. Perfect!

 

[Boothh]

We keep the baby with us for the first probably 4 months! Either in Moses basket or asleep in our arms I don't like to leave a young baby alone if I can help it!

 

[MissRhead]

I don't stay up to late I usually go to bed at the same time as my DS (so sad I know lol) so I'll just have DS2 downstairs in the Moses basket and take him up when me and DS go to bed too x

 

[baileybubs]

With dd I had her in the Moses basket for the first 6-10 weeks (can't recall exactly when she outgrew it) so we just had 2 stands, one upstairs and one downstairs and carried the basket up with us when we went to bed. Once she outgrew it we put her to bed in her cot around 8-9pm and for a few weeks I just stayed with her and read a book before going to sleep so I didn't have to keep going upstairs if she woke. Once she settled into a routine by about 4 months I left her upstairs and had a movement monitor on. We will be doing the same with ds once he arrives (hopefully he'll be a good night time sleeper like dd!!)

 

[Rosie06]

With DD we would bath change feed her about half 7 put her down "for the night" so to speak in the moses basket in the living room and she would have a feed around 10 so we would go upstairs do her last feed in our room and put her to bed in the moses and we would go to bed after about 2 half weeks we would just put her in the moses bbasket in our room at half 7 ish with the monitors on (but she was is always been a fab sleeper) we would do a dream feed when we went to bed and she went in her own room at 8 weeks because she had outgrown the basket she was sleeping through and we couldnt fit the cot in our room, we intend do the same with this baby too but depends on how he feeds sleeps etc so may change just going to go with the flow!

 

[mrsmummy2]

Thanks for all the replies ladies!
I think we'll play it by ear, but start with keeping him downstairs with us until we go up to bed. Sounds like the best plan!

 

[Mrs HM]

Like most of the other ladies, I'll be keeping my LO downstairs in a moses basket until we go to bed. He/she will be in in our room in the basket and then a cot for at least the first six months.

For my DS I found it easier to have him nearby for feeding and he was too small to leave in a big room on his own! So this one will be the same.

 

[pinkpolkadot]

As with DD1 we will be keeping her downstairs with us in her moses basket and then take her up when we go to bed

 

[aragornlover8]

We have a pack n' play set up for LO in our room for a bassinet. He will probably stay there for a few months while we set up his nursery and crib. I don't know when I'll be totally comfortable with moving him into his own room; I didn't have to worry about it with my daughter because we lived in an apartment until she was about 18 months old, so she stayed with us in our room during that time and got her own room when we moved into the house we live in now.