I have two brothers whose homes had cats when various babies came home. The latest baby in the family, Axel, will be a year old mid-November. Trillian, a petite tuxie kitty, has slept in his bassinet - and then crib - pretty much since he came home. She quickly learned that he's a squirmer and a kicker, and consequently sleeps as far away from him in the crib as she can get. Pippin, the bigger kitty in the house, just avoids Axel - Pippin has luxurious long orange fur that baby's finger can get painfully tangled in in a heartbeat.

The cat-suffocating-baby thing is a myth, pure and simple.