How many beds does a bub need?

Great question to ask ... I look forward to the responses! My DH asked this exact question the other day - how many beds does a baby need?!

I woudn't worry about anythign other than a cot, a hammock sounds great.
My little guy went straight from the hospital to his cot and we had no issues. I plan to do the same with baby number 2. No transition issues, I just wrapped my little boy for the first few weeks and then he wanted to spread out

I haven't used a hammock before but I'd be inclined to go with hammock and cot.... we have a two-storey house and I use a mix of bassinette and cot with a newborn anyway (one upstairs and one down).

We went straight to cots. Couldn't justify spending the extra money

Thanks for all the great advice everyone, it's started a bit debate with the hubby - do we really need a hammock? Can we fit both a hammock and a cot in the baby's room? etc etc... I'll let you know where we net out!

We had a bassinet in our room, but it had wheels so could go anywhere very easily, and a cot in babies room. They were both in the cot full time at 8 weeks and from 6 weeks for day sleeps....we never had a hammock but others in our coffee group did.

I think you would be best with hammock and cot. hammock is nice and handy to have in the lounge.  We have hammock and bassinet (Tom had bassinet and then into cot).  James is outgrowing bassient and has decided he doesnt like hammock anymore so we are needing a cot now....Tom still in the first one.

Personally, I think hammocks are a bit of a have, and maybe even bassinettes, although we had a bassinette cos someone loaned it to us.

You can mimick the closed in and wrapped feeling of the hammock with swaddeling. A couple of friends who havehad hammocks said they struggled putting baby into a different bed etc as baby expected the gentle rocking.

I did find the bassinette good, tho, in terms of movign it round, and I could take the bed part out and cart baby round, or push the whole bed round if need be. I had both sleep in the lounge etc during the daytime with noise and light and in dark rooms at bedtime to help them get used to day/night. Still, I wouldn't have bought one if we hadn't been loaned it. I figue they can sleep in a cot well swaddled and safety sleep wrapped to keep them secure.

There are so many ways you can spend your money on non essentials whan having a baby!!!!

We also decided that when the time came for #1 to go into a big bed, we spent about $1200 for a king single with a trundler, a decent bed, and figured that cash outlay would ensure we ahd a good bed that lasted till he left home. Will do the same with #2 as well.

IMHO the bassinette for the pram will be plenty enough!!!!

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I'm going cot and moses basket, as I like the idea of the baby being able to travel either with us or stay at grandparents in the same bed (well, for the first few months anyway) and want them to be used to the flat surface straight away. I've also got a moses basket stand with a rocking base so I can rock if needed, and plan to move it round the house with me so it can get used to noise, light, movement etc. Then can put basket into cot if needed after a few months, hopefully will help the transition.

I have heard only good things about hammocks and must admit I thought about getting one too, but the idea that they get used to the rocking and this makes it harder to transition to cot puts me off!

Kind of off topic, but we never had a problem transitioning Issy from her hammock to her bassinette to a cot.

Probably because she only day slept in the hammock .. however it was awesome when she was tiny, as the hammock was in the lounge .. and I could just jiggle her a bit to settle her down.

In saying that we had a bassinette that could rock (cariboo) .. so at night we could just wiggle that if she woke .. so its probably the same motion anyway.