Confused about travel cots?! - Baby

pink_supergirl Platinum member

29/03/2010 at 16:25

Hi ladies
I just wondered if anyone could help me please as I'm confused about travel cots (sorry, I'm probably being really thick). I'm going to buy a travel cot for my daughter (13 weeks) to sleep in as my mum and dad are babysitting on Saturday night and she's going to sleep over at their house but do you have to get a mattress as well or is the travel cot itself enough?? We would just be using the cot for the occasional night of babysitting and perhaps if we go away in the summer for a few nights.
Any help welcome!
Thanks

trying4babyM Platinum member

29/03/2010 at 16:29

We have a travel cot and I bought an extra mattress to go in it. This was mainly because Grace slept in the travel cot in our room when she outgrew her moses basket so I wanted it to be comfy.

When we went away before Christmas, there was a travel cot in the cottage we stayed at and it didn't have an extra mattress. She didn't seem bothered and slept in it fine.

Personally, if you don't mind spending the extra cash for occasional use, I'd get the mattress just for comfort, but the cot is perfectly useable without one

HTH

apple-pie-73 Platinum member

30/03/2010 at 18:54

I think the idea is you do without, but when I babysat my godson I felt so sorry for him as the mattress bit wasn't particularly comfortable feeling so I put a couple of layers of fleece blankets and then put a sheet over the top tucked in - just to make it a bit softer for him xx

mrs_ed

31/03/2010 at 11:47

Just to confuse matters further...

We bought a travel cot and extra mattress and lo wouldn't sleep in it - she just cried. So we ended up having her on just the mattress (straight on the floor) and forgetting about the travel cot.

This was at pil's a couple of w/ends ago and it was the first time she slept from 10pm to 5am in one stretch

We now use that mattress on the floor in her room for her daytime naps too. We're hoping it will make the transition to her own room a bit smoother (when and if it ever happens!)

mrs_ed and Tess (16+4)

malkymum

31/03/2010 at 15:00

I had this headache to. I would get an extra mattress, the ones that come with them are very thin and difficult to get the bedding round.

I would suggest if you can borrowing one to see if your baby likes it. My boy loves his, so much so if he's had a couple of bad nights in his normal cot I'll put him in the travel cot because he sleeps so well. He crawls in his sleep so bangs his head at the top but the travel cot is fabric so it doesn't wake him

I would recommend BabyDan, they are extra long and more spacious, we got ours plus a mattress from Amazon. Its great and we can use it for a few years xxx

basscl

31/03/2010 at 15:04

Check what size you want as there are 2 different standard sizes. There's a shorter/wider one and a cotbed size one (these often are labelled as doubling as a playpen). An extra mattress is great, but don't worry if you can't be bothered. We use ours a lot and still haven't got an extra mattress (bought the wrong size initially and haven't bothered to replace it) and DS sleeps fine on it.

DS1 - C - born Dec 2008
DS2 - E - born Jan 2012

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piggypops

31/03/2010 at 15:11

we have bought an extra matteress the standard matteress it comes with is 2.5cm so we have a 6cm matteress, We use it when we visit my mum for a good few days and dont like the thought of him on a hard matteress for that long x

wannababy

31/03/2010 at 15:14

i never got an extra matress and dd1 use to sleep in it fine every 3 out 7 days when we stayed ay my now hubbys when we didnt live together x

Stephi_77

31/03/2010 at 15:35

We brought a mattress as my LO sleeps in a travel cot when my mum looks after him two days a week. I don't think it was that expensive maybe around ??25. Saying that we have been away and he has slept in other travel cots without a mattress an has been fine.

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