Best Baby Bassinets 2017

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6. Arm's Reach Concepts Cambria CoSleeper Bassinet. Looking for a co-sleeper? This will be your best bet, though it's somewhat hard to find. Sharing a bed with a newborn is such a beautiful intimate experience for mom and a newborn baby. But due to SIDS and suffocation risk, many pediatricians do not recommend it. Instead, some bassinets are specifically designed to make co-sleeping safer by putting the baby right up next to mom, but in its own little bassinet. The HALO (#1, above) is a great example of that, but quite a bit more expensive than this unit. Co-sleepers are generally more expensive than traditional bassinets, but moms love them especially if they have undergone a C-section and need to restrict their movement. This bassinet is basically a no-frills co-sleeper with some great basic features. It has a lot of mesh on the sides to help breathability, a thin and firm mattress (like it's supposed to), and we found it very easy to raise and lower the co-sleeper side. Basically, when you want to feed you can push down the side to access your baby, and pull it back up when you're finished. There are adjustable legs to fit shorter or taller beds, and a great strap you can put under your mattress to hold it close (you can also lock the wheels). There's also a nice storage basket on the bottom. Overall, this is an excellent no-frills bassinet with a co-sleeper option that works quite well. It's a bit on the higher end in terms of price, we found it for about $180, but once in a while it's out of stock and difficult to find.
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7. Ingenuity Fold-away Rocking Bassinet. This is somewhere between a travel playard and a bassinet, and it struggles a bit at either of those tasks. Suitable for travel, this bassinet does fold up quite nicely into a cube that's about 22" x 23" and about 9" thick. Small enough to fit into a large suitcase, but there is no travel bag to help that situation. The folding functionality is great for smaller rooms and apartments where every inch counts, as this will slide under a bed or into a closet very readily. As a bassinet, it works pretty well. It has a reasonably soft mattress, breathable mesh sides for ventilation, soft-touch fabrics and padding over bars, and a cute style. The mattress is softer and thicker than most other options. The rocking feature is nice, allowing you to reach over (like from bed) and rock your baby gently to sleep. So the folding and portability aspects are great, and overall it's a well built bassinet that looks quite nice and has a great rocking feature. But there were also some cons that we noticed in our testing. First, the bassinet itself is very deep, almost like a cross between a bassinet and a travel crib. It's a bit too deep for an easy reach-in while lying in bed, but not deep enough to support a baby learning to crawl or pull to stand. So that bedside convenience aspect is definitely lacking. Second, there is no storage basket underneath, and no sheet is included and there appear to be no sheets available online for it. So that's a bit odd, though we do not that the mattress can be washed, and some bassinet sheets do fit (though not perfectly). So overall, this is a decent bassinet, though it does have some definite drawbacks. But for only about $80, you might be able to over-look the drawbacks!  
kolkraftbassinet8. Kolkraft Cuddle 'n Care 2-in-1 Bassinet. Classic styling, reasonably priced, with a lot of great features, definitely a good choice. This bassinet supports babies from newborn (and premie, as low as 3 pounds) up to 15 pounds. It has great styling, bringing back that ruffled vintage look, accented by ribbon and a cute (non-functional) mobile over head. And the features are quite unique: it includes an incline insert that you can use to prop up a baby with reflux or colic. It's removable quite easily, for use as a regular (flat) bassinet. Has a great retractable shade that's nice and quiet to adjust, a large basket underneath, and it has contoured legs that allow you to rock it gently side to side. Hiding beneath the legs are wheels that you can use to roll it around, or you can put it on the wheels so it simple can't rock. It's an easy adjustment, basically pulling a plastic sleeve down over the wheels when you want to use the rocking motion. In our testing, we found that having the rocking feature was a great for a bed-side setup. If your gentle rocking and voice aren't enough, it also includes some quiet music, nature sounds, soothing vibration, and a little night-light. Comes with a fitted sheet, and you won't need an extra sheet or pad for the incline attachment. Downfalls? Being picky, the feet are a bit large and bump up against a bed that they can't scoot under (like an un-raised bed, or a bed with a solid side frame). Overall, an excellent option that is slowly creeping up our annual list! Usually under $100, check it out here.    
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9. Delta Sweet Beginnings Bassinet. This is a classic bassinet with some simple modern features. It looks like a beautiful traditional style bassinet with a subtle falling leaf design on a ruffled dust skirt, a quilted inner liner, and an adjustable canopy. It really looks quite nice and brings back memories of classic bassinet designs. It comes with a firm but decently comfortable mattress, soothing music, a nightlight, and smooth caster wheels to help you move it around. This is a really basic bassinet, and the reviewers loved it. The only downside was some reviewers thought the mattress was a bit too thin. We're seeing a trend here - all of the bassinets we reviewed had at least one reviewer mention this same issue. Some moms reported finding thicker replacement mattresses online, but most were happy with the one that came with it. We should mention that Delta recommends never using a mattress greater than 1" thick for babies to reduce the risk of SIDS. The storage basket on the bottom is a nice touch, though we thought it was a bit flimsy. For about $55 online at Amazon, we thought this was an excellent deal. Not as many features or as stylish as others, but still a winner. Note that they also make a rocking version which is very well reviewed, for about $110.
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