2006-10-10 13:57:17 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
Just keep a real good eye on the cat and do not let her in the room when the baby is in it. Keep door closed at all times. Unfortunatly my cat ran away two weeks after baby was born ?( she was very jealous) so just be sure to still give the cat a lot of attention
2006-10-10 14:01:13 · answer #1 · answered by R C 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My cat is much too fat and lazy to care about jumping in my child's crib, but if you have an energetic or younger cat then there are a few thigs you can do. Yuor cat needs to learn to stay out so a few months or at least weeks before the baby arrives start training the cat to stay out of the room or at least out of the crib. Spraying with water in a squirt gun or bottle could work but my fat couldn't care less about water lol. You can also put tinfoil under the crib sheet for a few weeks so the cat gets scared when s/he jumps on it and hears the noises.
Also - keep furniture that the can can use as a launch pad away frmo the crib. My cat would have to jump about 4 ft straight across open air to get into the crib - or she'd have to go from the floor up and over. i keep the side of the crib up and that just won't happen.
Also - the cat will learn that the baby is a part of the family but if you kick him/hyer out as soon as the baby arrives, s/he will start to revolt and probably pee/spray everywhere - so be sure to start gradualy so you don't purposely annoy the kitty :). They do think they "own" the house, and pee/spray is very hard to get rid of the stink.
And try not to leave the cat alone with the baby... I personally know my cat will just curl up at her feet if she's asleep on the bed, but like I said, she's old lazy and fat and many people would disagree with even letting her on the same bed as the baby. I think it's great to introduce animals at a young age though - less possability of allergies and they will learn how to treat animals at a young age.
Good luck :)
2006-10-10 14:09:18 · answer #2 · answered by Rae T 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have two cats, both were curious when we brought the crib home. We let them check everything out and didn't make the room "off bounds". I found both cats in the crib once (before the baby arrived) I took them out and told them NO! I told them that the crib is for the baby not for kitty's. Now the baby is home, I have not found either cat in the crib. We allow them to be in the baby's room. The cats know they are allowed to be in the room but not in the crib.
Please don't get rid of your cat just because you are having a baby, there are so many unwanted animals in the world. There is room in your house for both baby and kitty.
2006-10-10 14:43:33 · answer #3 · answered by emmasmom 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Buy a crib tent (they're made of mesh and can be bought at Babies R Us). Also, keep the door to the nursery closed all the time (making sure the cat isn't in there, first!) and use baby monitors. If you *wanted* to, you could take down the door to the baby's room and put up a screen door. That way you could still see and hear in there without having to use a monitor.
2006-10-11 02:56:01 · answer #4 · answered by brevejunkie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have had a cat with all three of my kids and he never tried to get in the crib. I did keep an eye on him and would shut the door as a precaution- but even when the cat followed me into the room he never made any move to jump in the crib.
good luck!
2006-10-10 14:14:21 · answer #5 · answered by sammy22005 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was very concerned when my daughter was born in January as our cat is not very friendly and was used to sleeping with my husband and me. We started teaching the cat not to enter our room a couple of months before our daughter was due. It ends up we worried for nothing because as soon as the baby cried the first time the cat decided she wanted nothing to do with the screaming banshee. Even now, the cat has very little to do with the baby and tends to stay up and away from our new crawler. Don't get too nervous about the cat as most cats really don't care much about a new baby.
2006-10-11 03:54:39 · answer #6 · answered by busybusymom 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our cats were very curious when we had our son. But they got over it very quickly, and left him alone. They did get a little excited when he cried, but otherwise ignored him. You probably won't have any problems, I think.
BTW, it's an old wive's tale that cats will smother a baby in the cradle, or suck out their breath.
When your baby starts crawling, you'll have to be sure that he can't get into the cat's food or litter box, of course. It will be years before he's fast enough to catch the cat. In the meantime, the cat will learn to perch higher than the baby can reach, or to move somewhere that the baby can't get to - behind furniture, under a bed, etc.
2006-10-10 14:06:28 · answer #7 · answered by Ralfcoder 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
all you have to do is keep it out of the babies room. just shut the door to that room. if for some reason that is not possible, anytime the cat goes near the crib spray it with water. cats hate water and should learn to stay away.
2006-10-10 14:01:03 · answer #8 · answered by my101201cutiepie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
keep the door closed to the room with the crib in it and tell the cat no everytime you catch the cat near it. it will get the idea
2006-10-10 14:00:16 · answer #9 · answered by kleighs mommy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
shut the door to the babies room, or if in the same room as yours keep it out of the bed room at nap time. Also they make some sort of net thing to put over the crib for this purpose
good luck
2006-10-10 13:59:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋