Your newborn baby could be spending up to 18 hours a day asleep the right slumber space is vital. Here’s our guide to picking the best cot or cot bed.So there’s a huge selection available to suit all styles to modern space savers from curvy sleighs where your child sleeps is often the focal point of the nursery. OK thus let’s narrow down the selections with three easy questions:
1. How much space do you have?
It’s advocated that infant sleeps in the same room as you for the first six months or so but not all rooms are big enough to accommodate a cot or cot bed, by which case consider a Moses basket and stand (suitable to three to four months) or a crib (fit to six months).
If you determine to go directly for a cot, here’s the demand-to-understand: first thing is that there’s no such thing as a standard size cot, they do change. Cots are generally appropriate from birth to approx 18 months to two years. Short on space? Baby Weavers Compact is our smallest and best value cot and will last until baby is about a year old. Baby Weavers Anna, the traditionalist’s choice, has a mattress size of 122x61cm and will last to approx 18 months to two years.
Thinking cot bed ideas? It’s certainly the better value choice – and the more popular – as it’ll continue from birth to approx. It’s also an ideal gap-bridger between cot and My First Huge Bed (exciting times!) Cot beds commonly have internal measurements of 140x70cm with sides that ends that dismantle to convert to a toddler bed and come off.
Our bestselling cot beds? For outstanding VFM it needs to be the Somerset. Kiddicare Sleigh is a very good looking pick available in three finishes or if it’s quality craftsmanship with built-in storage you’re after choose the Woodhouse.
2. Any extra features to consider?
Indeed there are! Here are the favourite features to have on your radar when you’re browsing:
Drop side: one side of the cot or cot bed lowers to allow easy accessibility. Some drop sides are one-handed so you can hold infant while lifting or lowering the side with one hand.
Fixed sides: some parents would rather not have sides that lower and lift.
Height adjustment: most cots come with two-three mattress base locations
use the best (and simplest reach) standing until baby can roll over (generally after a couple of months)
use the second place until baby can pull up to standing (normally at about a year)
use the third place until infant turns adventurer and can begin to climb out (approx. 18m)
Teething rails: clear non toxic plastic covering for little one to chomp away on to shield small gums (and the cot!) once teeth start appearing.
When little one outgrows the Boori Urbane Sleigh cot bed: conversion to day bed /toddler bed it converts to your sofa. Clever!
Under drawer storage: there’s no such thing as a lot of storage. The East Coast Langham Sleigh cot bed has a built in total width drawer on castors.Cots that grow with your kid: the Stokke Mini cot starts out small (merely 67cm wide) and has a conversion kit to the Sleepi (for up to three years).
Package deals: all Kiddicare cots and cot beds can be purchased on their own; with mattress and bedclothes or with mattress.
3. How do I make sure my kid is not dangerous?
Some straightforward common-sense safeguards will make sure both you and baby rest easy:
The gap between mattress and cot should be no larger than 3cm
Babies should sleep in the feet to foot position, ie feet at the base of the cot
Babies should be put to sleep on their backs
A temperature of 18°C is optimum: not too hot, not too chilly
Choose an area for infant’s cot well from any blinds or cords and window or the radiator
Keep baby monitor cords nicely from baby’s reach
Make sure the cot is rigid when it’s assembled with no wobbles and regularly tighten the fittings
As it's a sloping side don’t use a cot top changer
If you’re using a fender please ensure it tucked securely between slats and mattress with the bottom edge touching the cot foundation and fastened to the slats
Please don’t use a second hand mattress
Use lightweight bedding in layers that’s easy to add or remove to regulate infant’s temperature
Recall sleep should be n’ted by baby on
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