As such, we decided to keep her in the nursery from night #1. I have really bad issues with insomnia, so I knew that keeping baby in our room would likely only result in neither of us getting any sleep. It's a scary thought of your baby stopping breathing, but the more prepared you are, in my opinion, the better the chances are of everything being just fine. If you are alone and don't have the phone next to you, you do CPR first (I think for 2 minutes but can't remember exactly), then go get a phone, put it on speaker and call 911 while continuing CPR. If that doesn't work, you start CPR while someone calls 911. If you get to them and they are still not breathing, first you startle baby to see if she will breath (blow in face, give a pat). If the monitor does go off and baby isn't breathing, the loud noise on the monitor that the pad is connected to is supposed to startle them awake. She said that if my baby needed to be on a monitor they never would have sent her home with us and she would be on a monitor in the hospital. Our Pediatrician also said that the monitors give a false sense of security, and can also cause parents to have more anxiety over SIDS. In the bassinet, the bottom of it is a hard surface so no need for anything else. In her crib we have a large piece of very thin pressboard on top of the crib springs, then on top of that we put the monitor pad, then the mattress on top.
Some tips, if you're using the movement pad, make sure you have it sitting on a solid surface or it will definitely give you false alarms. I have the old angelcare movement Monitor we had when my first was a baby, set up for that, but we only use the movement pad with it and not the sound (because she is right next to me).
She sleeps in our room in a halo bassinest. However we have yet to put her to sleep in her crib. I have the video, sound and movement monitor set up in her bedroom with her crib. I have 2 actually (one old one that doesn't have video, and our new one that does have video) as I was also and still am terrified of SIDS. Also we used it with our first born, who is now 4.
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