Wicker Bassinets for Baby
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Wicker bassinets for babies are extremely adorable and stylish, but they also serve a more important purpose for a newborn baby – improved sleep at night. Its small size swaddles your infant and makes them feel safe. For a more portable option, you can also check out our selection of wicker bassinet Moses baskets. Moses baskets are convenient because they allow you to carry a sleeping baby room to room without disturbing them as you go about your daily routine.
Our Picks
Wicker Bassinet for Baby with Storage Basket
This three-part wicker bassinet system comes with a removable bassinet, stand, and storage basket. It includes a fitted and removable pad, washable sheets, white eyelet bumper decorated with bows, hood, and wheels.
Designer Advice:
The handy storage basket located just below the bassinet basket can hold nighttime diapers, powders, creams, spare clothes, or blankets. The extra-large bows and lace trim is ideal for baby girls.
Deep Vintage Baby Bassinet with Large Wheels
Made of wicker and wood, this 1940s wicker bassinet enhances a shabby chic style. The basket is secured down to the base with sturdy screws for increased safety. Minor chipping of the paint adds a vintage elegance.
Designer Advice:
This style of wicker bassinet doubles up as a stroller and sleeping arrangement for baby. If you use it as a stroller, then understand it is not collapsible and only ideal for short walks around your neighborhood. Its deep setting prevents baby from rolling out and lets you use bulkier pads and blankets.
Barrel styled Wicker Baby Bassinet
This stylish one-piece wicker bassinet is made with a full hood and comes with a flat foam custom fitted cushion and cushion cover. Its unique crisscross layered pattern sits on four rubber ball castor wheels to soothe baby to sleep.
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Its full-length rattan wicker design makes it the perfect addition to a bohemian, cottage, or coastal themed home. One drawback to this style of wicker bassinet is it uses more space in a bedroom, appearing chunky, which may not be the best option for someone looking to save space.
Handle less Vintage Baby Bassinet Basket with Hood
Solid-built with symmetrically-pattern throughout its design, is this white-painted vintage bassinet. The full wicker hood with braided wicker trim, provides both shade and privacy for your baby.
Designer Advice:
The lack of handles on this wicker bassinet basket makes it perfect for fixed uses, like on a wide nightstand or table next to your bed. Its narrow width construction can snuggle and comfort smaller-sized and premature infants.
Wide Mouth Vintage Wicker Bassinet with Collapsible Stand
The two-hoop style on this old-fashioned wicker bassinet offers versatility in carrying options. Designed with a wave weave and bar pattern, it comes with a collapsible stand with small wood wheels for easy travel and storage.
Designer Advice:
Wide funnel-shaped wicker bassinets provide easier access to baby compared to deep designed bassinets. Because it was made in the 1960s, its wheels do not lock in place which may propose a safety hazard for your infant. You can fix this by placing a heavy object to stop the wheels from rolling.
Extra Wide Wicker Bassinet Basket with Leather Handles
This wicker bassinet basket is similar to a patterned basket with handles, only it offers customizable width and height options. Made of harvested elephant grass, its dyed with natural, black, brown, and beige colors.
Designer Advice:
Its large build can be used longer than smaller-built baby wicker bassinets. Using cold water, you can reshape this wicker bassinet to form around your baby’s natural curves. It’s highly portable but does not come with a stand, so you’ll have to purchase it separately.
Patterned Wicker Bassinet Moses Basket with Handles
This African patterned, brown, and tan wicker bassinet basket comes with sturdy brown leather handles with the basket made from pliable elephant grass. Its material is 100 percent handmade and biodegradable making it eco-friendly.
Designer Advice:
Leather handles provide more give and flexibility compared to built-in rattan wicker handles, making it more comfortable to carry your child around. Use these types of baskets for small infants, puppies, or baby dolls.
Open Wicker Bassinet with Built in Handles
Natural and odorless paints, makes this wicker bassinet basket harmless to babies. It’s fashioned with a braided trim and a chic, open bar rod design. The soft baby nest mattress offers a safe sleep place for your baby.
Designer Advice:
Top to bottom rod designs on wicker bassinet baskets are wonderful for mothers and babies who find comfort in seeing one another. Its eye-shaped built-in wicker handles are super stylish but may be awkward to hold. The barred handles might also make it difficult to squeeze larger fingers through.
Wicker Bassinet with Bumpers and Rocker Stand
This personalized crib cradle wicker bassinet comes with a cotton mink sateen fabricated bumper to protect your baby as they sleep. The removable Moses basket comes with its own wooden rocker stand to rock your baby to sleep at night.
Designer Advice:
Its three-patterned wicker makes is more modish than symmetrical designed, one-patterned bassinets. This wicker bassinet is suitable to hold newborns up through nine- to ten-month-old babies. When baby outgrows the basket, use it to hold your baby’s stuffed animals, baby dolls, and baby powders.
Antique Bassinet Basket on Rocking Cradle
This ultra-vintage, two-piece wicker bassinet comes with a Moses basket with a Disney-themed foam mattress and an all-wicker stand. Two small loops connected to the basket hang on the frame and can be lifted to transport baby elsewhere.
Designer Advice:
Its white finished 19th century tower-styled base is a rare find. This wicker bassinet style sits lower to the floor and pairs well with platform beds. If you own a taller box spring bed, then choose a taller wicker bassinet style or purchase a taller stand to raise the bassinet to your bedside.
