Sidecar crib

Sleeping arrangements for our other babies For our two oldest, we had various sleeping arrangements but I knew for our third baby that we...

A few weeks ago we finally tried side carring the crib and it wound up being the best devision ever! This wound up working so well for us, my daughter was…

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Materials: crib SNIGLAR (39 €), 4 wheels (0.85 € c / u) and a hinge (2.60 €)

So, you've decided that co-sleeping/bed-sharing is what works best for your family. Wonderful! However, many bed-sharing families often find that one parent gets less-than-adequate space and ends up on the couch. My own husband spent four months on...

This is the seventh entry in a series of posts. To read the introduction (don’t forget the ground rules!), click here. Okay, true confession time… we co-sleep with the Stinkerdoodle. We h…

Turn your crib into a "sidecar"

A great way to bond with your new born baby or keep him or her closer to you would be by using a cosleeper. Cosleepers are very safe to use, with them, you can

Clever bedside baby bassinet!

We love co-sleeping and after reading up on the benefits of it (post soon to come), I decided I just wasn't going to give it up no matter how many nay-sayers there are. There are a number of safety precautions that should be taken if you decide to co-sleep. For the most part, our family bed was a "go" on all things except one: our mattress is too squishy. Due to a few car accidents, I have a terrible back. We purchased a memory foam pad to put on the bed to help out with that (and it's done…

UPDATE: I'd like to let everyone know now that we actually tried this out - it REALLY isn't worth the trouble we went through - either get a FULL size crib (not sure how well that will work either) or just use the actual "Co-sleeper" brand bassinet for next to the bed - would have saved us trouble because guess where our baby is now??? In a pack n play next to our bed whenever she's totally "out" - then I scoop her up to nurse at night :) This has been one big project for us but we hope it…

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Make a Sidecar Cosleeper in 2 Hours With Standard Lumber.: Co-sleeping with your baby is a great way to enhance bonding and makes it much easier to handle feeding in the middle of the night. However, pediatricians raise very legitimate safety concerns about sleeping in the same bed with your baby. Our sol…

Make a Sidecar Cosleeper in 2 Hours With Standard Lumber.: Co-sleeping with your baby is a great way to enhance bonding and makes it much easier to handle feeding in the middle of the night. However, pediatricians raise very legitimate safety concerns about sleeping in the same bed with your baby. Our sol…

Learn the safest position to co sleep with your baby using the cuddle curl and the Safe Sleep 7.

Linden is officially too long to fit comfortably in his moses basket. I was not looking forward to that day (especially since he's only b...

A couple of weeks ago we made the call and traveled along to IKEA for a crib for our Little Guy. We’d already looked at a couple and had a few ideas about what we wanted, but nothing beats lo…