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It's beautiful!
But why is the baby sleeping on a pillow?

very european seemingly German-like. love the design and idea behind the product

Lovely.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I don't sleep on top of the covers. The overhang of the covers could fall against or over baby. Is this ever an issue with cosleepers in general? We've never used one.

We co-sleep in our bed, and thank the heavens, our landlord kept our apartment so toasty this winter that we barely needed covers ever. We usually only pull them up to waist height (if they are required at all) and from what I hear, this is pretty common--waist-high covers. I used to pull the comforter up to my eyelids, so it took a little adjustment, but now I'm totally used to it. So I guess it's just one of the things you adjust to when you co-sleep, either in the bed or with a sidecar situation.

Does anyone know what the red part is made from? Is it wood or something else?

A friend of mine recently had a baby and her partner built something very much like that (only with carved flowers) in pinewood ! It is a lovely idea.

No outraged comments from the green types on keeping one's apartment so warm that covers in bed are unneeded?

We told our landlord that it was really warm. But we don't even know where the thermostat is. If it were our own apartment we would have kept it cooler and gone the layered clothing route.

Yeah, that tiny pillow is hilarious.

I want it.

The cradle looks kind of precarious, though...

Any suggestions for comparable products that are available for purchase? Most of the co-sleepers I've seen so far are awfully froofy.

this isn't fair to show me something that's so perfect for me and then tell me it's not in production yet.... i want!!!!!

It's pretty similar to the Baby Bunk www.babybunk.com

Shawn, generally in middle and northern Europe, people don't use covers, but only a fitted sheet and a duvet. So usually there's nothing hanging, rather floating on top of you. Since this is a German idea....
and Germans make pillows for babies too. They're not meant to keep baby's head up rather than preventing the baby to sweat. I know you Americans are all -oh my god my baby will die in his sleep with a cushion- but a baby with a fresh head has less risk of SIDS than a sweaty one.

oooooooooooooh. love it. though we had a co-sleeper, she slept on the bed with me (night nursing and what not). so our co-sleeper acted as the bed rail and midnight diaper changing station. this is much sleeker and would have kept me from piling up the co-sleeper with other crap. (for lack of a better word)

LOL the pillow! Did these people ever have kids? A pillow? really? I don't think so. :-)

That's gorgeous! We have a co-sleeper, and it looks NOTHING like that one.

I'm looking for a co-sleeper like this. Does anyone know of something similar?

I am not giving up sleeping with blankets/sheets over me regardless of how warm it is. Moreover I don't know that sleeping in a room that warm in a temperate climate (80 degrees?) is an environmentally sound idea.

Sol--what does a pillow have to do with a baby having a sweaty head? What does a sweaty head have to do with SIDS? However, babies have been known to suffocate when they rolled over onto a soft surface, like a pillow, and couldn't get back. Maybe they were just silly American babies.

If you want to have the baby's head raised, the safe and best way to do that is to put an incline underneath the mattress. We did that for our daughter as she had quite bad reflux in her first few months. Besides, she was swaddled until she was four months, and I can't imagine putting her little swaddled head on a pillow in the bed. Sounds very uncomfortable, if nothing else.

Anyway, it looks like a neat product, although as someone said, the rocking part looks a bit tall and precarious.