« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: What do you have in your under 3mo's crib?  (Read 1294 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline deenz

  • Resident BW Chatterbox!
  • *****
  • Showing Appreciation 50
  • Gender: Female
  • Posts: 1314
    • Location:
What do you have in your under 3mo's crib?
« on: November 17, 2005, 08:08:22 am »
Hi,
Just wondering what people think about mobiles etc in young babies' cots/basinets?  At the moment my dd (nearly 8wks) has nothing in her basinet which is in my room - only very plain cream walls, nothing much for her to look at.  I am in two minds about whether to put something for her to look at into her basinet.  Wouldn't I be confusing her by saying "it's time to sleep, but here's something to stimulate you"?  But I also think it would be nice to have something to look at for when she wakes...

What have others done?
Logged

Offline Deb_in_oz

  • Resident BW Chatterbox!
  • *****
  • Showing Appreciation 615
  • Gender: Female
  • Posts: 16300
  • personal development blogger
    • Location: Brisbane, Australia
What do you have in your under 3mo's crib?
« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2005, 08:34:42 am »
Quote (selected)
"it's time to sleep, but here's something to stimulate you"? But I also think it would be nice to have something to look at for when she wakes

i have never put anything in with the girls when they were young - olivia at 9 mo has nothing still although there are things in her room so she can see those if/when it is light in her room...

when alex got older (over 16-17 mo i think) i added a couple of stuffed animals and later we started putting in books for the morning to occupy her in the cot.
Logged
Debra - a New Yorker living in Australia married to a Brit

dd1 - Textbook/Angel, born July 2003
dd2 - Spritied through & through, born Feb 2005

Check out my website:   Home Life Simplified
Like my Facebook page:  https://www.facebook.com/HomeLifeSimplified

Offline Mom to M&M

  • Resident BW Chatterbox!
  • *****
  • Showing Appreciation 128
  • Gender: Female
  • Posts: 7655
  • Cool dude!
    • Location: NJ
What do you have in your under 3mo's crib?
« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2005, 12:12:48 pm »
We have always had a Dreamscapes soother in her crib. It's an excellent crib "toy" made by Leapfrog that plays soft songs/lullabys, a bedtime story, etc and has soft pastel lights (you can also play with lights off). It has always helped soothe Marisa to sleep and when they get older they can turn it on again in middle of night if they want to. I highly recommend it!
Logged
Karen: Proud Mama to Marisa (8-11-05) and Matthew (6-5-09) and happily married to my best friend and love of my life since 10-13-01

Offline Jaime

  • Queen of the Wicker People
  • Administrator
  • Resident BW Chatterbox!
  • *****
  • Showing Appreciation 941
  • Gender: Female
  • Posts: 22756
    • Location: Florida, USA
    • Laughable Lunacy
What do you have in your under 3mo's crib?
« Reply #3 on: November 17, 2005, 19:27:22 pm »
i always had a mobile in their crib, though i could have taken it out for luke since i've almost never used it with him.

i did have 2 animals in there with each child - but they were only toys they saw at sleepy time.  i was trying to drive that association very early on.  granted, it's not until they're almost a year old that they WANT these things to sleep with, but i figured any consistent cue was helpful.   :D
Logged
Jaime
~~~
DD - Textbook
DS - Touchy/Grumpy

Offline notenoughshelfspace

  • Resident BW Chatterbox!
  • *****
  • Showing Appreciation 33
  • Gender: Female
  • Posts: 771
    • Location: London, England
What do you have in your under 3mo's crib?
« Reply #4 on: November 17, 2005, 19:38:32 pm »
Tiny Love do a flat board book thing with black and white images that you can  curl around the moses basket.  I had that in there for 'Activity time' and sometimes a mobile as well,
Logged
[img width= height= alt=baby" border="0]http://tickers.baby-gaga.com/t/catcatard20070405_-1_My+little+girl.png[/img]
[url=http://www.baby-gaga.com/]<img src="http://tickers.baby-gaga.com/t/foxfoxard20050410_-8_gige.png"

Offline ryan's mum

  • Resident BW Chatterbox!
  • *****
  • Showing Appreciation 374
  • Gender: Female
  • Posts: 12480
  • North Wales U.K
    • Location: wales uk
What do you have in your under 3mo's crib?
« Reply #5 on: November 17, 2005, 20:01:14 pm »
ryan didn't have a mobile in his moses basket but when he went into a cot at 4mths he had a mobile and it was beautifull to hear him on the monitor in the morning gurgling away to it.we would get an extra half hour in bed
Logged
[img width= height=]http://tac.families.com/tickers/tdb.php?tid=1032165&ignore=1[/img]Ryan James 9 Nov 2003

[img width= height=]http://lafemmebonita.com/blinkies//Pregnancy%20and%20Babies/ILoveMySon.gif[/img]

son , I may have silver in my hair but you are the gold in my heart .
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »