The Snuggle Nest is made with protective rigid walls to offer safer place for baby in adult bed, the walls help to prevent heavy sleepers from accidently rolling over on baby and helps to keep stray covers off of your baby as well. But with safety in mind, the cover and tray are vented for better air flow. Also attached is a soft glow night light for when you’re nursing to for easy nighttime checks on your baby. The Snuggle Nest includes positioners to help keep your baby sleeping on his back as well as a secure envelope sheet that won’t come loose around your baby!

One of my favorite features is that the bottom of the Snuggle Nest is open, so if you happen to have a taller baby, they won’t outgrow it before they are too old for it. It’s also easily portable so you can take it with you and use it in hotels, grandma’s house and more. I didn’t have one for my first three kids, but with my fourth, it was extremely helpful to define “baby’s space” so the other kids would stay away from the baby in the middle of the night when they came to our room for nightmares or other reasons. We opted for the deluxe model instead of the supreme, even though the supreme comes with an incline wedge (which actually would have been helpful since my son has reflux), but at the time didn’t think the $15 difference was worth it (wishing I had spent that extra $15 now!!)

So if you choose to co-sleep with your baby, the Snuggle Nest is definitely something you should have in your bed!

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I thought I was done with the whole “where does your baby sleep” debate.  I purchased a crib for my oldest, which I believe made a nice decoration for the nursery, although it was never used.  From day one, she slept in bed with us.  With my other two children, we never even bothered to get it out.  And then, just six months ago, we decided that our family was as large as it was going to get and so we donated or sold every single piece of baby equipment and clothing that we had. 

Big Mistake!

Now, here I am four months pregnant with our fourth child, and I’m starting to get “those looks” again when people make offers of cribs or tell us where they saw a good one that we should buy.  I politely say “well, thank you, but we’ve never used a crib and we don’t plan to with this baby either.”

My pediatrition at the time preferred the crib method, but was supportive of my decision to co-sleep.  She truly believed that, in general,  moms know what is best for their kids and was willing to let me co-sleep without a single lecture or “helpful suggestion.”

So recently, when I was looing in to the debate once again, I was pleased to read Dr. Sears’ research and information in this area:

“If the incidence of SIDS is dramatically higher in crib versus a parent’s bed, and because the cases of accidental smothering and entrapment are only 1.5% of the total SIDS cases, then sleeping with a baby in your bed would be far safer than putting baby in a crib.

The answer is not to tell parents they shouldn’t sleep with their baby, but rather to educate them on how to sleep with their infants safely.” (From AskDrSears.Com)

And I couldn’t agree more.  Where I put mychild to sleep, whether in a crib or in my bed shouldn’t matter to anyone else as long as I take the appropriate precautions to protect my child. 

Protecting Your Baby If You Co-Sleep

This time around, since we have 3 potential “middle of the night” visitors from the baby’s siblings, we are going to invest in one of those baby co-sleepers  like the Baby Snuggle Nest just to help define the baby’s space and keep stray blankets and pillows away.  But I’m glad that there is finally some scientific research and  support for my position – the last thing I need with four young children is controversy about how we sleep.  I’m just lucky if I can get in any sleep at all!

So did you co-sleep with your baby?  What steps did you take to ensure your baby’s safety?