Beverly
Sturdy, portable, highly functional bassinet
We use this bassinet as baby's main sleep/chill-out space around the clock. We use it for overnight sleep in freestanding bassinet mode (we have a platform bed so can't use it as a co-sleeper). During the early AM when baby is noisy, we roll the bassinet into the living room so one of us can catch some more zzz's in the bedroom while the other stays with baby. During the day, we wheel baby between rooms depending on where we are. We use the fold-down arm when baby's big sis wants to say hi.
This bassinet has a mesh pocket on each of the short sides, which we use for extra swaddles. In the basket, we have diapering supplies, extra body suits, and extra sheets, which have come in handy in those early AM hours because people are sleeping in the rooms where we normally keep that stuff.
Minor complaints and limitations:
There is a lot of velcro-ing to put this thing together, and some seemingly superfluous pieces -- I don't think the top bars need to be covered by fabric, and the "wings" on the basket corners don't seem to do very much. The space between the bottom of the sleeping surface and the top of the basket is not that wide, so it can be difficult to see and access the things in the basket. Finally, while the bassinet is portable within a home and we regularly take it up/down a couple stairs in our split-level, I personally wouldn't want to lug it up and down a lot of stairs on a daily basis (e.g. if your home has multiple floors). It also doesn't collapse for travel.
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