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The cosleeper Dad built...
I'm so tickled by this... it's 18 inches wide by 48 inches long, with
1 foot of that being shelf/bedside table space. It will sit flush with the bed, and the firm foam mattress with baby vinyl cover (Mom *made* the mattress)fits the space so snugly that it doesn't move even when the unit is tipped, and overlaps the bed side just enough that it will cover any gap between mattress and cosleeper caused by the bedframe. Basically it expands our sleeping space by 18 inches, and provides a "no roll off" zone so if I get up to pee, I don't have to worry about baby rolling off. http://www.jenrose.com/co-sleeper.jpg Jenrose IANIL (I am not in labor...lol) |
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"Jenrose" wrote:
http://www.jenrose.com/co-sleeper.jpg Wowwww Jen!! You have some incredibly crafty and talented parents! You are very lucky! That co-sleeper looks perfect and useful in every way. It really looks like the perfect solution and there's no doubt in my mind that you will love it!! Looks like you are all set and ready for the baby. -Kara (I love your sig, BTW) |
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I want I want I WANT!
We managed quite nicely last time with the moses basket right next to the bed, but the baby was lower than I was, so it wasn't quite so convenient, it wouldn't be worth trying to do anythig different this time, we had the baby in our room for about 4 months and I expect we will do similar again. Anne |
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"Kara H" wrote in message ... "Jenrose" wrote: http://www.jenrose.com/co-sleeper.jpg Wowwww Jen!! You have some incredibly crafty and talented parents! You are very lucky! I know... G Dad also built my laundry system, and Mom sewed all the medieval garb for all the people in my wedding... 10 outfits, total, all in silk! That co-sleeper looks perfect and useful in every way. It really looks like the perfect solution and there's no doubt in my mind that you will love it!! I'm so tickled. We were talking about just doing an improvised headboard and side rail for my side of the bed...but when I explained my purpose to dad, we both sort of went, "Oh, it should be like this...and this...and this..." and what you see is EXACTLY what I described. I wanted shelves to act as a bedside table to extend from the wall to one foot out. I wanted 36 inches long of "rail space" extending to 4 feet total from the bed (a crib would be 5 feet and make it very hard to get in and out of bed for me). I wanted shelves underneath. I wanted a rail on three sides to prevent roll-out, and a mattress exactly flush with the top of my bed, sized to fit, and everything done to all applicable crib standards. So the slat width is within spec, the finish is 100% pure tung oil, etc. etc. The height is not crib height, because it's not designed for "unsupervised" use with a baby who can pull up at all. It's not meant for unattended sleeping for longer than it takes me to pee. And it means that I can keep baby off our memory foam if I need to. Looks like you are all set and ready for the baby. Tell me about it! No, tell this kid about it! You hear that baby? We're ready.... Jenrose IANIL |
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"Anne Rogers" wrote in message ... I want I want I WANT! We managed quite nicely last time with the moses basket right next to the bed, but the baby was lower than I was, so it wasn't quite so convenient, it wouldn't be worth trying to do anythig different this time, we had the baby in our room for about 4 months and I expect we will do similar again. DD was in my room for 4 years. I figure at some point this will get "too small" for practical use (probably at age 2 1/2-ish) and we'll find some other option. But it will likely end up staying in the family for this baby, any kids my sister has, etc... on down to my daughter's kids, if it works as well as I think it will. With dd, I had a futon on the floor the whole time we coslept--which was very safe but not very comfortable. I've "grown up" and now have a grown up bed and don't want to give it up... so this gives us some baby safe space while letting me sleep with baby in the crook of my arm. We determined the measurements by having me lie in the bed and figure out where my arm would come, how long baby would stretch, etc.... The bed is impressive--but the mattress... most people would not be able to tell that it's homemade. They used exactly the kind of vinyl that most crib mattresses are made from, and a piece of foam that was the highest density/quality available from a store that supplies a wide variety of foams for upholstry, etc... It's *very* firm, the cover fits exactly and is wipe-clean. We're going to adapt sheets by taking a flat twin sheet, wrapping it around, sewing it to fit, but leaving a flap that will cross from the cosleeper to my bed, providing "crack coverage". Jenrose |
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"Jenrose" wrote in message news:1110180178.4d3bece71b87586503c367b92d6ad762@t eranews... I'm so tickled by this... it's 18 inches wide by 48 inches long, with 1 foot of that being shelf/bedside table space. It will sit flush with the bed, and the firm foam mattress with baby vinyl cover (Mom *made* the mattress)fits the space so snugly that it doesn't move even when the unit is tipped, and overlaps the bed side just enough that it will cover any gap between mattress and cosleeper caused by the bedframe. Basically it expands our sleeping space by 18 inches, and provides a "no roll off" zone so if I get up to pee, I don't have to worry about baby rolling off. http://www.jenrose.com/co-sleeper.jpg Jenrose IANIL (I am not in labor...lol) oh that's lovely. I kep the cot about a foot from my bed and once I'm in I pull it close but I still have the bars between us, but I can slip my arm in to feel if ds is too cold or too hot. I prefer yours! I wish I had known about co-sleepers before having kids I's of had one built too! Alissa |
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oh that's lovely. I kep the cot about a foot from my bed and once I'm in I pull it close but I still have the bars between us, but I can slip my arm in to feel if ds is too cold or too hot. I prefer yours! I wish I had known about co-sleepers before having kids I's of had one built too! Alissa With dd, I had a crib next to the bed, a couple feet away. We sometimes used it for naps, or if she fell asleep before I was ready for bed. But if I tried to sleep with her in there, I'd wake up every 5 minutes to check her breathing...so she slept with me. With my foster son, I took the drop side off the crib, put a toddler rail on, set it right next to my bed almost flush...but that little "lip" of rail meant he never ended up in the crib because I couldn't put my arm in there. This is flush. So I can just get close to it and have baby there and be "in touch" and nurse and sleep without thinking about whether baby is "down" or "over there", etc. Jenrose |
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DD was in my room for 4 years. I figure at some point this will get "too small" for practical use (probably at age 2 1/2-ish) and we'll find some other option. But it will likely end up staying in the family for this baby, any kids my sister has, etc... on down to my daughter's kids, if it works as well as I think it will. we've had a wierd ride sleepwise with DS, he was ok as a baby, well normal, fed loads at night, then less and less and then slept through we moved him mostly into his room when he was feeding once at night, then completely into his room, he went off a bit from 8ish months so I was up and down a bit more, would have been very tempted to have him back in our room, but the cot would have just been annoying. Ended up having to move him to a bed very early, 14 months, he started screaming if we even went near the cot, at this stage however he still went down very easily, then he went to nursery and it all went pear shaped, needed much more help to get to sleep, now we are in a situation where DH sleeps most of the night with him in a single bed, there is no room for me, bump, DH and DS all in a standard double, I loved it when we stayed in a hotel before christmas and we had two double beds, I keep saying we should have this in out house, 1 sleeping room, with 2 double beds/mattresses and swap over as necessary. I'm not sure how things will pan out with this baby, our house has 4 bedrooms, but currently we have one as our room, one as a nursery, one as a study, one as a guest room, I'm not sure I want to try and put baby in with Nathanael, but none of the other rooms are currently set up well, I guess I have some thinking and sorting to do, or just deciding to cosleep longer and adapting the cot or buying a co sleeper! Anne |
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I know... G Dad also built my laundry system,
what is that? do you have a pic? I could do with some organisation in my laundry Alissa |
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Jenrose wrote: I'm so tickled by this... Maybe this is what baby has been waiting for... "I can't be born yet, I have nowhere to sleep!!" Amy |
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