Where the Hungry Mouth sleeps

Like the baby transportation devices, the baby sleep location plan is another minefield of purchasing opportunity!



When she was newborn, the Hungry Mouth was so curled up and tiny that she would have been lost in any cot...and also there was no room in our bedroom to put one...



So, the Moses basket, tucked cosily next to our bed, on Muslin Mummy's side of course, was sleepspot number one. Not that she stayed there long, much preferring the snuggle-on-nice-warm-parent option.



This worked OK for a few weeks (weeks, note...this is not a cost-effective option, so try to beg or borrow one), and then her aunt pointed out that her favourite sleeping position is splayed out like a starfish (usually in the middle of her parents' bed), and that she was having to spread her arms up the sides of the basket. Time to move her to the cot.


A cot is bigger than a Moses basket, and smaller than a cotbed (which turns into a bed for a toddler). See how you can buy two more items here (plus cot bedding, and mattress, and mattress protector, for each)?



So we went straight for the cotbed, hopefully usable till she's four or so. Right now, the Hungry Mouth needs about a quarter of it. But it does hold a cot-top changer (cunningly carpented by the Hungry Mouth's dad).



Notice how I didn't say she actually sleeps in any of these places. Not for long, anyway. Though the sling is good for soothing and for naps.



Mostly she sleeps in Our Bed. Between her adoring, warm, tense parents. Who have to tuck their pillows far away, not have any duvet on their top halves, and sleep very, very lightly (still better than not at all) so as not to squash her...but on the plus side, she drops off like a lamb, and does not do any of the thrashing about she does in her cotbed, which is audible from our bedroom, and banishes all parental sleep. And we can gaze at her charming countenance every time we blink awake.