The best co-sleeper bassinets to keep baby safe by your bedside
Bedside snuggles within arm's reach
A co-sleeper bassinet is a safe way to keep your newborn by your bedside at night.
According to Red Nose safe sleeping guidelines, the safest place for baby to sleep is in their own safe space, with a safe mattress and safe bedding.
Baby should always be placed on their back to sleep, with their feet at the bottom of the bassinet or cot.
It’s also recommended that your little one sleeps in the same room as their parents or adult caregiver for the first six to 12 months.
What is a co-sleeper bassinet?
A co-sleeper bassinet is handy as it gives bub their own safe space to sleep but attaches to your bed. One side folds down to allow you to access baby and feed and change them without need to get up at night.
Bedside sleepers come in different variations; some have a side that opens fully; others had a side that folds down partway, forming a little ‘gate’ between the adult bed and bedside sleeper.
Choice recommends ensuring the bedside sleeper you choose is suitable for the height and style of bed you will be using it on. Some additional parts may be available, such as height adjusters or extensions for framed beds.
Bassinets and bedside sleepers feature adequate breathable zones on all four sides to eliminate suffocation risks and provide enough ventilation for your baby.
Co-sleeper bassinets allow your newborn to sleep within arm’s reach.
The best co-sleeper bassinets
Babybee Pod, $399.99
The Babybee Pod seamlessly converts from a bedside sleeper to a stand-alone bassinet, allowing you to keep your little one safe, close and comfortable.
The Pod is adjustable to 7 different heights and is made to fit beds from single to king size, adapting to fit your family.
With breathable mesh sides for increased air flow and a drop down side for quick and easy access, the Pod is the safest way to keep baby close while you sleep.
Gaia Baby Hera Bedside Sleeper, $499
With your baby close and secure, you will find easy and simple settings and adjustments to customise your Hera Bedside Sleeper so that you and your baby sleep better, for longer.
The Hera Bedside Sleeper is specially designed to provide a safe, secure, and comfortable nights’ sleep for you and your baby.
Dusk bedside sleeper, $199.99, Childcare
The Dusk Bedside Sleeper has both a bassinet mode and a bedside sleeper mode. It is the perfect co sleeping solution for new parents.
Features include:
- Ability to sleep close to your baby without having to share the same bed
- Freestanding bassinet mode
- Five position height adjustment
- Easy to attach and remove from parents’ bed
- Carry bag included for easy transportation
- Mesh walls for air circulation
- Fits most beds
- Mattress included
- Removable and washable lining
- Compatible with Single, King Single, Double, Queen and King Size beds
- Not compatible with Super King bed
Dreamtime sleeper, $319, Love N Care
The Love N Care Dreamtime Sleeper has both a bassinet mode and a bedside co-sleeper mode.
Features include:
- Can be inclined at either end using the height positions individually adjustable on each side
- Bassinet attaches to parents’ bed using straps
- Simple to assemble and use
- Tilt adjustable (help against reflux)
- Easy to attach or remove from parents’ bed
- Six height positions
- Fits to most bed heights
Bedside sleeper with mattress and carry bag, $249.95, Baby Studio
This bedside sleeper is the perfect solution, allowing parents to soothe newborns back to sleep without having to leave the bed.
Features include:
- Five position height adjustment
- Adjustable height: 60CM, 57.5CM, 55CM, 52.5CM
- Comes with wheels for bedside sleeper to be moved to different sides of the bed for ‘shared shifts’
- Adjustable feet allow the sleeper to move up close against the adult bed
- Carry bag included for easy transport
- Easy to attach and remove from parents’ bed
- Allows for easy access without disturbing baby
- You are also able to reach out without moving
- Built in pocket for straps’ storage
- Compatible with Single, King Single, Double, Queen and King Size beds
- Not compatible with Super King bed
Easy to attach and remove bedside sleeper bassinet, $211.92, Childcare
The Childcare breathable bedside sleeper has both a bassinet mode and a bedside sleeper mode. Perfect for new parents.
Features include:
- Ability to sleep close to your baby without having to share the same bed
- Freestanding bassinet mode
- Five position height adjustment
- Easy to attach and remove from parents’ bed
- Carry bag included for easy transportation
- Net window for air circulation
- Fits most beds
- Mattress included
- Removable and washable lining
- Compatible with Single, King Single, Double, Queen and King Size beds
- Not compatible with Super King bed
Bedside sleeper, $169, Childcare
Choose from bassinet mode or bedside sleeper mode with the Childcare bedside sleeper.
Features include:
- Ability to sleep close to your baby without having to share the same bed
- Free standing bassinet mode
- Five position height adjustment
- Easy to attach and remove from parents’ bed
- Carry bag included for easy transportation
- Mesh walls for air circulation
- Fits to most beds
- Mattress included
- Removable and washable lining
- Compatible with Single, King Single, Double, Queen and King Size beds
- Not compatible with Super King bed
Roomie glide bedside sleeper, $349, Joie Baby
Feed, soothe or snuggle from the comfort of your own bed.
Enjoy every waking moment of the newborn stage without losing sleep over whether they’re snoozing safely.
Features include:
- Allows you to sleep closely side by side without sharing a bed
- Sliding side panel lifts and lowers with just one hand
- Smooth single hand glide soothes baby and locks in place with a single button push
- Comfortably cushioned yet firm mattress comes included and is mesh covered
- 11 height adjustments measure up to nearly any sized bed
- Soothing tilt gently inclines to help your little one comfortably digest their bedtime snack
CoZee breeze bedside sleeper & bassinet, $369, Tutti Bambini
The award-winning CoZee continues to securely attach to your bed for bedside sleeping, keeping your baby at arm’s-length while sleeping in their own safe sleep environment, the safest way to co-sleep.
Features include:
- Can be used for bedside sleeping or as a standalone bassinet
- Innovative 30 second open/fold mechanism
- Handy storage shelf
- Full mesh side windows all the way to the mattress
- Travel bag included
- Breathable fabric lining
- Incline option to help with congestion and reflux
- Standard mattress made of corn fibre, breathable fibre and a cotton blend.
- Wheels included
