Moving to own room and cats!
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We are hoping to move LO to her own room tomorrow night, she is getting to big for her basket and i think that we are both keeping each other awake with our different shufflings in the night!
What is the best way to go about this, should we just put her straight in the cot or should we put the basket in the cot for a few days to make the transition easier?
Also, i know that this has been covered before somewhere but cant find it, but am i worrying about nothing when it comes to our cats? They dont really show much interest in LO they just see her as something that makes lots of noise! They hsve never tried to get in her basket although we have had to turf them out of her pram and bouncer a few times. We have tried to make her room a no go area over the past few months and we have never found them in her cot but they do like to sleep on our bed with us and I worry that they will now want to do the same with her. I dont want to shut her door as that will make checking on her a nightmare, but need something to keep them out, i suspect they will just jump over a stairgate.
How have any of you dealt with this or has it never really been a problem for any of you?
Thanks
MM xxx
What is the best way to go about this, should we just put her straight in the cot or should we put the basket in the cot for a few days to make the transition easier?
Also, i know that this has been covered before somewhere but cant find it, but am i worrying about nothing when it comes to our cats? They dont really show much interest in LO they just see her as something that makes lots of noise! They hsve never tried to get in her basket although we have had to turf them out of her pram and bouncer a few times. We have tried to make her room a no go area over the past few months and we have never found them in her cot but they do like to sleep on our bed with us and I worry that they will now want to do the same with her. I dont want to shut her door as that will make checking on her a nightmare, but need something to keep them out, i suspect they will just jump over a stairgate.
How have any of you dealt with this or has it never really been a problem for any of you?
Thanks
MM xxx
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With regards to 'the move' i would put the basket in the cot for a few nights so it's not such a shock for her. She can then get used to the new surroundings before taking the basket away. That's what we did with our LO and after a few nights we took the basket out and left him just in the cot. He had no problem adjusting and i think he liked having more space to be honest!
With regards to the cats i'm afraid i can't help you. I would be wary i have to say and think if any doubt i would shut the door. However i do understand what you are saying about the checking on her in the night. Hopefully someone else will be able to give you some advice. Good luck. I'm sure your LO will get more sleep than you will to begin with! x
As for moving her, it is up to you and your little one. My DD did not fuss at all, mainly I think because she was more comfy in the cot than the moses basket. You could try during an afternoon nap, and if she doesn't settle, try with the moses basket in there.
They are also killing machines and when they used to sleep in our bedroom before we had kids, they deposited a dead mouse in our bed. Nice!
Minnie, unfortunately daytime napping is a completely seperate issue for us and we are hoping that by having her in her cot at night it might help her nap in there during the day rather than on us.
I know that she is frustrated in her basket as she always wakes me when she hits out at the sides which in turn wakes her up, even so i think i will keep her in her basket for the first night at least and see how she gets on!
Re the cats, we have 4 boys who love nothing more than sleeping on our beds. We used to find them in the moses basket if we didnt shut our bedroom door and indeed the cot if we left the nursery door open. So for us shutting the nursery door when dd was sleeping in there was never a question, and tbh she sleeps so well that we've never woken her up by going in to her and she's nearly 2 years old now.
Personally I think you need to shut the door if your at all concerned.
Its only the past couple of weeks that i have started puting T into the cot, mostly just for daytime naps at the moment but we just put him straight in without his moses basket and so far (touch wood) he seems to have taken to it ok....he just fights sleep as he always does lol. Will need to start putting him in his cot at night as well though as he is rapidly outgrowing his moses basket
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She never took to the basket so I put her in the cot by itself - we make evening routine in her room and play in the cot for a while first.
Our door on her room is tough, kinda have to click it shut. I shut it to and the monitor is so sharp if the cat opens it, the noise on the monitor is very loud. Although our cats have no interest in her, they like to sleep in anything that is hers, chairs, playmat, cot etc. Although he has only ever been in the cot when she isnt in it and does prefer the chair in her room, I still wouldnt risk it and shut the door properly when I go to bed, it doesnt seem to wake her up and she is a light sleeper, good luck
They were never once able to get through that (either between them or climb over the kiddiguard one). As LO got older we got more brave about shutting the door and that's what we do now - just as we do with our own door.