PacNPlay Question...New Mom

[mandapanda75]

My husband and I are thinking about using the PacNPlay bassinet feature instead of placing the baby in the crib. Do you think this is safe? I would love to know everyone's opinion. Thank you

[stillplayswithbarbies]

It's safe up to the allowed weight of the bassinet. Logan napped in the bassinet of the PnP until she hit the weight limit. She still sleeps in the PnP in our room at 17 months.

...Karen
DS Jake Feb 91, DD Logan Mar 03
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[urquie]

our three month old sleeps in the pnp bassinet next to our bed every night... until she first wakes up and joins us in bed :)

[Not a Bobblehead]

We bought a super fabulous deluxe Pack n Play intending to do just that, have our baby sleep in the bassinet. But on assembling it we were very disappointed, it just seemed too flimsy - the bassient feature was a hammock basically and not a firm surface like the real floor of the Pack n Play. When we couldn't locate a co-sleeper anywhere in the city and were on our way out of the hospital, our guy ended up sleeping next to us in his bassinet-like pram for a couple of months. For naps I could actually wheel him with me from room to room. He's since graduated to a portable crib next to our bed. His real crib is primarily used a play area and place to hang out, it has the mobile, etc. If I had the time to wait for an order, I would probably get a co-sleeper.

[squimp]

It's safe up to the weight limit, and also until your baby starts sitting up. We used a bassinet for naps until about 6 months.

[amp]

As others said, it's safe to sleep them in the bassinet up to the weight limit. Our DS napped daily in there. Now that he's too big for the bassinet, when we travel, he just sleeps in the lower/playyard setting. That's all it's used for. It's our travel crib.

[tippy]

Don't mean to be preachy! Just a word of warning (from personal experience and stuff I've since read) If you have ANY plan on switching db into the crib to actually sleep at some point in the future it may be MUCH harder to do if he/she associates it with only playing. Just passing this info on as I wish someone had told me the same. It would have made our life so much easier :-) Please ignore this if your plans are different!

[tippy]

We actually had borrowed a bassinett so we used that till ds was ~ 3 mo (he was a pretty small baby though @ 6lb 2oz). We did use our bassinette to store all our changing supplies and changed most of ds's diapers on his pack-n-play changing table. I prefered changing him "facing me" and we didn't splurge on a changing table. I wouldn't have hesitated using it as a basinette though. Just dind't need to.

[kijip]

Till they are 15 pounds it is fine then the bassinet has to be taken out and you can only use the regular floor of the PNP. Toby's first sleep spot was the bassinet of his PNP. That lasted 3 or so months and then he went into the crib.

[stillplayswithbarbies]

the same floor is used in the bassinet as in the bottom of the pack n play, so it should have been just as firm. It's the same mattress.

...Karen
DS Jake Feb 91, DD Logan Mar 03
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