The Best Infant Bassinets

✔️ WHAT TO KNOW: After the founder of Halo lost an infant to SIDS, he launched the brand with a mission to make sure babies are placed on their back for sleep in a bedding-free space and ideally close to parents, but not in the grown-up bed. The brand's BassiNest can swivel over your adult bed, and the breathable mesh sides bend down a bit, making it easier to lift your baby out for a midnight nursing sesh or sunrise cuddle.

✔️ TESTING NOTES: This newest version is lighter (the original was heavy!) and now the top can lift off its base so you can use the basket for naps in other rooms. The BassiNest works best next to a mattress that is at least 4 1/2 inches off the floor and no higher than 30 inches. There are two levels of vibration and four calming sounds to help your baby fall asleep.

✔️ EXTRAS: This comes with a mattress but Halo sells a fully washable mattress upgrade for about $80. It also comes with a fitted sheet and it's easy to buy additional cotton sheets. There's also a more affordable version that loses a few of the soothing features and the nightlight.

✔️ WHAT TO KNOW: This winner of a past Good Housekeeping Parenting Award is affordable and electronics-free. Use the My Crib at your bedside (and save a lot of money) or use it for travel, or both. It easily folds down to smaller than half its regular size, goes into a carry bag that's included and might even fit in a piece of checked luggage.

✔️ TESTING NOTES: Weighing only 12 pounds, this bassinet has mesh sides that lock, so it's light and easy to move around. The tradeoff is that this will feel cheaper than a larger, sturdier bassinet. The mattress pad is used without a sheet and can be wiped down, which is easy but some parents might miss the feeling of having bedding.

Many new parents say they don't want to spend a lot of money on a bassinet that they'll only use for a few months, so we like this as a low-cost option. This would also be great for any second house that you visit frequently, such as a grandparent's place.

✔️ EXTRAS: There's a smaller version that's even less expensive.

✔️ WHAT TO KNOW: The Food and Drug Administration approved the Snoo as a baby sleep product that keeps babies in the safe back-lying position. It was designed by pediatrician Harvey Karp, M.D., whose "five S's" for soothing are now bedrock parenting advice: swaddling, shushing, swinging, sucking (like on a pacifier) and side/stomach (a way of holding your newborn). After writing The Happiest Baby on the Block, Dr. Karp designed the SNOO to automatically respond with soothing motions and a shushing sound when your baby cries. We gave it a recent Good Housekeeping Parenting Award.

✔️ TESTING NOTES: The SNOO connects to an app and gives you a nightly sleep report. It comes with a swaddle that attaches to the infant bed. "The SNOO doesn’t change the fact that you’ll still wake up for midnight feedings," says Lexie Sachs, Good Housekeeping Institute executive director of strategy & operations, who used the product with both of her kids. "It does, however, prevent non-hungry wakings, and it cuts down the time it takes to get your child back to sleep once a feeding is done."

Set it up near an outlet and plug it in to enjoy all of the features. The main pain point is the price.

✔️ EXTRAS: There is a 30-day risk-free trial period. There are also increasing opportunities to rent a SNOO. Happiest Baby sells additional organic cotton fitted sheets and swaddles.

READ OUR FULL REVIEW: SNOO Bassinet

✔️ WHAT TO KNOW: Bassinets usually function as a bedside sleeper for five or six months and then you're through. This one converts into a changing table when your baby outgrows it as an infant sleeper. The Close to You is very adjustable; the height of the top can be set anywhere between 24 and 33.5 inches from the floor, which means it's good for many tall beds.

✔️ TESTING NOTES: This is an easy bassinet to move around — the only one on our list with four wheels plus a handle that allows you to shift it around a room. The battery-operated electronics provide six songs, two vibration settings and a nightlight, and you'll want three AA batteries for that. Some online reviewers complained that the batteries run down fast, so have extras as backup.

The mattress cover zips off for cleaning. When you're ready for this to be a changing table, flip the mattress to the waterproof side. As a changing table, it can hold a toddler up to 35 pounds so it's useful up until potty training.

✔️ EXTRAS: You can add a diaper caddy, sold separately.

✔️ WHAT TO KNOW: Newton Baby is known for its completely washable crib mattress, and this bassinet mattress can also be rinsed clean in the shower. It's a sturdy, fixed-side bassinet without any electronics, so it's a little more affordable than others, and it includes a fabric storage shelf underneath. A cotton muslin fitted sheet is included.

✔️ TESTING NOTES: This took about 15 minutes for us to assemble in the Lab. We like the large sleep surface that gives even a big baby lots of room. A tester with a newborn said, "I love that it's lightweight and was easy for me to set up while pregnant and use postpartum."

The 1.5-inch thick mattress is the thickest allowed under federal safety standards. See more below about why a baby's sleep space requires a hard, firm surface but the short answer is it's safest and best for them. This bassinet is Greenguard Gold Certified for low chemical emissions.

✔️ EXTRAS: Newton also sells a bedside sleeper, with one side that lowers, for about $100 more.

✔️ WHAT TO KNOW: It was just a matter of time before a company created a SNOO-ish smart bassinet that can sense cries for a lower price. The SmartSense has what Graco calls "cry detection technology." You plug it in, and sound from your crying baby activates the bassinet to start rocking to soothe them back to sleep. Parents can also manually rock this basinet, giving them more options.

✔️ TESTING NOTES: A consumer tester gave this high marks, saying, "I really liked all the tech features, but specifically the built-in white noise. The soothing mode definitely works. It takes about five minutes for the SmartSense to truly soothe our crying baby, so at first we didn't think she liked it, but we realized we just needed to give it a little more time to help her settle."

You control this with the buttons on the bassinet. It comes with an organic cotton crib sheet. It's new for 2025, so there aren't a lot of online reviews to go by yet. But one feature another one of our testers had fun with is that it functions as a Bluetooth speaker, so you can play songs from your phone through the bassinet.

✔️ EXTRAS: Graco does not sell extra fitted sheets, but you can buy compatible sheets.

✔️ WHAT TO KNOW: This modern bassinet has a focus on design and storage and can tuck in next to your bed without being very obtrusive. Though it's hardly mini — it's long, but not as wide as others — we like it for small spaces. It's got a sturdy metal frame and wood trim, and the sheet that it comes with is softer than most. A storage shelf underneath can hold burp cloths and spare pajamas.

✔️ TESTING NOTES: Adjust this to any of four heights and slide the top closer or further away from your bed as needed. The high mesh sides add to the feeling of safety and security, but because they don't flex, you will have to bend over to scoop your infant out.

The Iora folds flat and fits into the included carry bag so it can be portable. That also makes it possible to store under your bed during the day if needed. But the bassinet weighs 26 pounds, so you're not going to want to carry it around often. Its heaviness does contribute to its sturdiness, though.

✔️ EXTRAS: If you want to match back to your bedroom the Iora also comes in colors like green and slate gray.

✔️ WHAT TO KNOW: This new innovation is a little different: It's a bassinet for the first five months and then transitions into a crib that you can use until age 2. You lower the mattress and change the legs to do the conversion.

✔️ TESTING NOTES: "This is a simple, clean-looking crib. The mattress is comfortable. Our son enjoys it," one of our home testers said. Another added, "I liked that the all-mesh netting around the crib made me feel like it's safe for my baby's different sleeping positions and breathing. It's airy." A third said the bassinet is approximately bedside height, and "That makes it easy to see in."

This is so lightweight at 15 pounds that some testers mistook it for a travel crib. It is somewhat portable, but it's mostly built to replace a bigger, heavier wooden crib, especially in a small-space home. It comes with an organic cotton crib sheet. With this, you will need to move your child to a toddler bed at age 2.

✔️ EXTRAS: BabyBjörn also has a cradle that works from birth to 6 months. It's a similar Scandinavian look for less money, but then you will need a full-size crib too.

✔️ WHAT TO KNOW: Expecting two? This functions much the way the regular BassiNest does, but is double-wide to accommodate infant twins. Twin babies are obviously used to being close together, which is why it's so nice to give them a shared bassinet. This provides a mesh wall between them, so they can see each other and interact without smushing into each other and waking each other up or causing any worry that one baby will get themselves on top of the other.

✔️ TESTING NOTES: Like with the Halo for singletons, the top can rotate toward an adult bed. The walls on each side can bend a bit so a parent can easily get a baby out for feeding or soothing. This comes with a nightlight, vibrations and several soothing sounds and lullabies, which all run on ‎three AA batteries.

It's heavy, a little more than 45 pounds once assembled, so you'll want to just leave it set up next to your bed.

✔️ EXTRAS: This comes with four fitted sheets. If you need more, buy the special fitted sheets for this.