Serta iComfort Infant Sleeper, Gray

My daughter is now 3 months old and she’s slept in this almost every night since we brought her home from the hospital. It’s not perfect for a few reasons but let me tell you what you’ll need before buying this and then I’lI get into the actual product itself.It’s big; so you’ll need a king size bed if you’re sleeping with your partner and baby.It’s lightweight; which means if you toss and turn all night you’ll jostle baby so you’ll need a memory foam mattress to cushion your movements.If you have both these things I would give this product a shot but if you don’t, don’t waste your money.Now the actual product is good quality. The mattress is separate from the base so you can clean the mattress cover. And if you’re babe gets diagnosed with reflux like mine, you can raise the mattress at an incline no problem. The mesh sides are excellent and breathable. You can even see through them with a good enough night light. It travels nice and compact; took it with me over the holidays and it worked out great. It’s also super long so baby can sleep in it for awhile. My daughter is 24 inches in length and has more than enough room. Unfortunately because of her reflux she slides down with sleeping at an incline and I’ll be moving her to a crib soon.What I took away a star for was that the lullaby-vibrate-light feature sucks! Big time! The vibration only last 15 minutes and doesn’t even vibrate the whole bed, just the frame. The lullaby comes on when you press the vibrate button even though that shouldn’t happen and has woken my baby up because of this malfunction. And a bright blue light comes on no matter what buttons you press. Also wakes baby up. Even the white night light feature is outrageously bright! So I don’t use any of those buttons for those reasons. I’m pretty sure you can buy this without those “features” and you’ll save some money.Overall it’s a good Cosleeper and I’m glad I bought it since I wanted baby close by but also safe.

I bought this in desperation because my baby won't sleep in his bedside co-sleeper with a drop side, even with my arm draped over him. I breastfeed and therefore want him in the room.The bottom of the iComfort sleeper is just fabric with a mattress so I don't see how it's safe to use in a bed. It's actually more squishy and therefore less safe as a sleeping surface than just having baby on the adult mattress, because you have a mattress on top of a mattress. Also, since the center side panels of the sleeper are not rigid (there is a metal u-shaped frame on top and bottom edges of each end) allowing it to fold in half for travel, the two ends can slide together if compressed by a sleeping adult, or the ends tip up if you lean on the center section to check on the baby in the night. Both of these actions compress the mattress, making it lift up or bunch - also not safe for baby. I fixed this by having my husband cut a piece of good quality birch (not toxic glued) plywood to fit perfectly under the mattress. However, this made the sleeper just as uncomfortable for the baby as his co-sleeper bassinet. Let's face it. Baby likes sleeping in bed with me because the mattress is soft and he likes my body heat and touch. He doesn't like a thin mattress over plywood, i.e. he doesn't like being safe. The upside of the iComfort Sleeper is that I can get out of bed without scootching to the foot of the bed (bad with stitches!), because there's no bassinet tethered to the bed blocking the side. But with the iComfort Sleeper, it's pretty cramped in the king-size bed and you have to be careful to not pull the covers up between you because they'll cover the baby. Oh, and if baby does happen to be sleeping in the iComfort Sleeper, I have to move like a ninja to lie down lest the mattress bounce and wake him up.Oh, and as others have mentioned, it's difficult to see the baby through the mesh while laying down. This is because there are two close layers of mesh which obviously are not perfectly lined up. I imagine they used two layers so that if your pillow or quilt pushes up against the side, baby can still (hopefully) breathe because of the tiny gap between layers of mesh.

This is the largest (longest) cosleeper infant bed available. It measures about 32-33" long inside. A lot of room to grow. Good quality. Well-made. Sturdy frame. The middle section of the frame and bed are soft because that's where it bends to fold close.Baby sleeps soundly in this (swaddled in a Miracle Blanket). She did not like sleeping in her playard bassinet. She liked it better sleeping in our bed in between us so we got this cosleeper infant bed to use so that it is safer. We have a queen size bed and we can both sleep on our backs with this in between. Husband is 200 lbs 6'4" and I'm XX lbs (post pregnancy weight) 5'2". Would have more room of you have a king size bed. But fits a queen size just fine. It comes with a waterproof vinyl covered mattress and one soft quilted cover. We washed the quilted cover before use. I wish they sold extra covers. It folds up easily into a half moon and locks with a velcro tab if we need to put it away or take it with us. No assembly of the bed frame required other than installing batteries in the control box and attaching it to the top of the frame. It is ready to use out of the box (but we washed the cover first!). The control box is unneccessary. We rarely ever use it (light, vibration, music). The light that illuminates the keys on the top of the control pad is blue. The light on the actual night light is white. See picture with illuminated night light.Overall we are happy with this cosleeper. It is the largest available. There is a lot of room to grow and you'll use it for a longer time versus other cosleepers.