HELP keeping cat out of bassinet 😂😭

So my baby girl is due in September, we got the bassinet about 2 weeks ago because a friend of mine should me hers for super cheap. As a typical cat, our kitties has decided that’s her bed now which it clearly is not😂🤦🏻‍♀️ ever time we’ve caught her in there we’ve done corrective actions like taking her out and putting her on her cat tree in a separate room. Recently go a bassinet cover that’s a mesh cover specifically made to keep cats out and I just found her laying in the bassinet… on top of the cover 🙄 our next step is going to be packing the bassinet full of stuff and/or putting foil in the bassinet so she freaks out and jumps back out immediately. Does anyone have a sure way that helped them get their cat to stay out of it? Worst case scenario we won’t let her sleep in the room with us anymore if she continues to do that, I’m just so nervous that we might get her to stop and then once the baby gets here she jumps in there even if we train her to not do so and potentially lands on baby or hurts her (as the bassinet is high off the ground about 3 feet or so and she has resulted to jumping into it from our bed😂🤦🏻‍♀️) she’s a calico cat about 4-5 years old and is very stubborn as most calicos are

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We covered ours in foil. And once our L is born, we put a piece of foil on the mattress when baby wasn’t in it. We did the same with the stroller.

As for night time or when one of us could not watch the cats/baby when LIVE was in there, we opted to just lock them out of the room.

My LO is 9 months and we still lock them out when we are sleeping overnight ( not for naps) just in case, but they haven’t actually made any attempts in 5+ months.

We have two very stubborn cats. One calico and one tuxedo

I've had the same concern but we've waited to set up the bassinet and plan to leave the door closed with no access for the cat which is hard because I've slept with my cat for 18 years. I've heard the cat can cause a lot of issues like sleeping on baby and licking baby after feeding and both are deadly. I'd just recommend keeping your door closed and always keep an eye on baby and cat.

I would try pillows in the bassinet and then a blanket over it. If kitty wants to lay on the blanket then why not. At least she isn’t in the bassinet. You could also try finding a bassinet just for kitty. Make her feel loved and heard that she enjoys a bassinet. Doesn’t need to be anything fancy. We all know cats love to lay on and in things they aren’t supposed to! It’s just their nature!

You could also maybe try to find a cat tower that has a little bowl bed and put it near the bassinet so she has that option instead of the bassinet. Or you could cut a piece of cardboard from a big box & put that on the bassinet. She will realize it’s not comfortable

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