Cot / cot bed

Yes but you can get a cot or a cot bed. The cot bed has the ability to change into a bed when baby is a toddler rather than just a cot being a cot

If you plan on having more than one baby I’d keep it! By the time your first needs a bed you’ll probably need it for the cot anyway x

I’d say keep it and wait till your LO is 18 months old and by a first bed/ toddler bed

@Riley the mattress isn’t in question here. But thank you for your input

@Yasmin I thought this but then I still have the unpinning guilt of ordering the wrong thing 😣 I blame the hormones

I know what you mean about the cot bed you can get one that changes as they grow older. I suppose you could try to contact the manufacturer if you have your emails from the purchase they can see how long ago you ordered it? But I would say keep and then you might prefer buying an actual bed when they grow up you never know! Don't beat yourself up about it though!! 😊 Xx

@Jade honestly there’s really no difference in terms of the cot! You also might find you actually prefer a floor bed or cosleep etc anyway! x

I used my cot until my kids were almost 3 and they were definetly not small kids, you just get a single and safety rail you'll get much better long term use out of it. My 2 year old sleeps in a bed with no rails just fine

@Riley you can buy cots that in the future turn into a bed but she's just bought a cot by accident when she wanted the one you can adapt as they grow older xx

Get it right the first time. In that if it's not what you want replace it. It may peck your head otherwise. Baby can grow with their bed, I know some beds can grow with a child until around 10 or so. So if you have another child they'll have their own grown with me bed. So no need for the cot. Whatever you decide, remember your baby has somewhere warm and safe to sleep. It won't care about what it is. It could be a (butterfly box) padded out cardboard box and they'd feel loved and secure☺️ don't stress about it. Blame the hormones for making you over think🤭 your baby isn't going to come into this world thinking they're on the show location location location demanding a different cot haha😆 flip a coin and be done with it 😉 worry about split ends or chipped nail polish instead haha keep the cot 😉 quit beating yourself up ☺️😉🫂

Honestly; I wish I didn’t get a cotbed because when she was coming out of her cot there was so many absolutely gorgeous beds that I wanted and couldn’t buy coz we had a bed 🤣 I was so sad!

Honestly, I'm not really sure what the big issue is here? A cot is perfectly fine! Just get a single bed later on down the line and put a bed guard on, you don't need to buy a specific toddler bed x

I bought a cot bed… but by the time we switched her out of the cot, we had another baby who was going to be using it, so we’ve had it for four years and it’s still a cot 😂 We just bought a normal size single bed when she switched (she was nearly 3). I wouldn’t worry about it 😁

I brought a cot that doesn't adapt into a bed and the only pain is the rails as I'm tiny and so putting baby in can be annoying. She's now 2 years old and honestly not ready for the bed part and I'm pregnant with number 2. By the time she's in a bed, rather than the cot number 2 will be ready for the cot. My friends however had a floor bed for their kid from when they were around a year old and it worked great for them, they're in a flat too so when baby wakes she just goes to their room straight away. It really does depend! X

My two year old learnt to climb out of her cot and refused to sleep in it when we converted it to a cot bed. She's now on a mattress on the floor. At some point we'll get her a single bed, but the toddler bed function has been pointless for her! 😅

My son was in a cot until 18 months ish, then we moved him to a floor bed 😊

If you have a next to me or similar for your room, if the nursery is otherwise finished, I'd hold off on ordering a cot bed even if you get rid of the cot. Baby is nearly 8 months and still in her next to me, we're trying to decorate her room (so try to get that done at least, it's a nightmare trying to do it while she's now mobile) as she's been ready to go in there for about a month, and when she was about 3 months I decided I didn't want a cot or cot bed. We've now bought her a single size floor bed and would've wasted the money to buy a cot/cot bed and have it not be used. You've got plenty of time to decide and you may have different ideals once baby is here than you do now.

Honestly I wouldn’t panic. Use the cot until baby is too big for it and then just buy a toddler bed or even just a single bed as it will last a little longer. Either dismantle the cot and keep for any further babies or sell it to help towards the cost of the new bed. It’s no big deal. Yes cotbeds are handy but they certainly arnt necessary x

I would try & sell it & buy a cotbed

@Jade i see what you’re saying about the mattress not being in question, but maybe rather than being rude about, take in what @Riley said about the mattress for a cot bed not being suitable for a newborn, and realise that buying a cot was a good mistake because atleast the mattress for that will be suitable for a newborn. the mattress for a cot bed is only suitable for older babies and toddlers, so actually Riley was doing you a favour to point that out to you. yes i get it’s frustrating buying the wrong thing, but in this case, you haven’t ordered the wrong thing, you’ve accidentally ordered the right thing, with the intention of buying the wrong thing. Riley’s input was actually very much perfect

I would use the cot as it will last at least 18 months and probably longer. When you want a cot bed, take a look on a Facebook Marketplace or local reuse groups because I see people giving them away for free or selling them cheaply all the time 😊

@Ellen there wasn’t any rudeness the question was about the cot not the mattress. Obviously I’d be getting the right mattress for either baby or toddler. If I needed to question the mattress the mattress would be in the question not the cot or cot bed. But thank you

We had a cot with our first mainly because it was during Covid and we needed one that measured a bit smaller and it was all that was available. I ideally wanted a cot bed. We just went with it and when she was close to 2 she was showing signs of climbing out of one on holiday so we got an extendable toddler bed and she’s been in that ever since and she’s almost 5. I wouldn’t worry. Don’t stress now just keep it and then review it when she is older