Whilst I was pregnant with my son I decided that I would like to buy a Moses basket with stand as we wanted him to sleep in our room for the first few weeks. I visited Toys r us and saw that they had the 'I love my bear' Moses basket on special offer, it had been reduced down to £30 and the wooden rocking stand was only £10 so I decided to buy it there and then.

The Moses basket was lovely, it was made out of the usual wicker material (if this is what it is, I think so!!) and it had a white furry lining inside with a small mattress, so that the material of the basket doesn't stick in the baby. It has a cream hood that you can lift up so that the baby is protected from some sound and light, the hood had little animals stuck onto the top of it with Velcro, so that the baby could look up at these, these could be removed if not required. It also came with a lovely little quilt with a bear on it, to go over the top of the blankets.

The rocking, wooden stand was very easy to assemble, in fact I managed to do it all by myself without asking my husband for assistance!! The Moses basket fitted snugly in the stand and there was a plastic piece all the way around so that the basket couldn't slip off. I particularly liked this stand as it rocked, therefore when Rhys woke up we could easily rock him back to sleep without taking him out of the basket.

The Moses basket was used all the time when we brought Rhys home as we had him downstairs in the basket for his daytime naps. Then on a night we would carry the stand and basket upstairs to put at the side of our bed. When Rhys was a couple of weeks old we would start putting him upstairs after his evening feed so that he was getting used to the whole bedtime routine.

When Rhys was 3 weeks old my husband had to return to work, as my husband got up very early in the morning we were concerned that they would disturb each other throughout the night so we made the decision to put Rhys into his own nursery. The guidelines say that you should have your baby in your room until they are 6 months old, but a lot of my friends have put their baby in their own nursery at an early age and it resulted in them sleeping through the night from an early age, so this was the reason we decided to try it, plus we had monitors so knew that we would be able to hear Rhys throughout the night. The guidelines are there to basically guide you, at the end of the day you have to do what is right for all of you, plus I don't regret doing this for a second as Rhys has been sleeping 12 hours through the night ever since he was 10 weeks old!! I know a lot of mothers who still have their baby in their room with them at 4/5 months old and they still aren't sleeping through, but this is a personal decision, you must do what you feel is right.

When we transferred Rhys into his own cot, we still let him sleep in his Moses basket which we placed in his cot, as I just felt he was too tiny to put him in his big cot all by himself!!! When Rhys was around 10 weeks we decided to stop letting him sleep in his Moses basket, as he was quite a big baby and he kept waking himself up through the night by banging his arms on the side of the basket, therefore we realised he needed more space to sleep comfortably.

Although we only used the Moses basket for 10 weeks, I would definitely use one again, as in those first few weeks of Rhys' life it was a god send, as I could have Rhys right at the side of me rather than having to go up and down stairs every time he needed a feed!