Baby Bassinets

Bassinets are smaller, frillier, more portable versions of the crib. They are the compromise in the great sleep debate between the "family bed" people who advocate taking your baby into bed with you, and the Dr. Richard Ferber-led, so-called "sleep Nazi" crew who argue for letting baby cry it out in his crib.

The baby bassinet goes right next to your bed giving everyone easy access to each other, yet retaining his/her own space. Since baby bassinets are much lighter and more compact than cribs, you move them by simply picking them up. Baby can nap in another room during the day in his cozy, familiar baby bassinet, right next to the lucky person who is washing dishes or folding laundry. Cribs are furniture but baby bassinets, and especially designer baby bassinets and unique baby bassinets, are a statement in the romance of infancy. Check out the endless styles of ruffly skirts and bonnets and the creative, sometimes excessive designs. Round, domed, gilded, hand-woven rattan...? No problem.

4/1/2008 11:47:30 AM