Where to buy cot bumper?

[strawbebbies]

We're going to change 18mo dd's cot to the toddler bed setting and I was hoping to get a bumper to put on it to make it more cosy but nowhere seems to sell proper padded bumpers anymore, just the mesh kind.

Has anyone seen anywhere that still sells them?

They are a cot death risk. I'm glad to hear they are hard to buy now, at long last. Please look up the risks on the Lullaby trust website.

Try 1985!

Absolutely no need for a cot bumper. They arent recommended anyway

Agree with PP. They are dangerous and shouldnt be sold

They sell the mesh line d because cot bumpers kill babies and toddlers. Better to be alive than cosy I think.

Please don't buy a cot bumper. No child needs one.

Do not get a cot bumper, they are so dangerous

Nowhere, hopefully. They’re dangerous and a suffocation risk. Unnecessary. The cot is for sleeping, not looking cuddly.

Was coming on to say the same as the others

Hope it's clear enough

Noooooo. I can't believe they are still sold anywhere.

To be fair, I assumed all cots needed bumpers before I had DD as that was what is seen in the media etc. Thankfully I researched and learned they are potentially dangerous, amazed they are still sold
Link to lullaby trust for advice OP - www.lullabytrust.org.uk/parents-should-remove-cot-bumpers/

OP says that the child is 18 months old... so well outside the risky age for cot death (not meaning to sound in any way dismissive about cot death, but 0-6 months is the big danger zone, as I understood it? By 18 months most children are no longer at risk from things like cot bumpers if correctly secured, surely?)

Ikea does them, it's like a big fabric box the mattress goes inside (so impossible for the child to get tangled up in) and then velcro straps on the outside keep the sides attached to the cot bars.

I’m confused, if it’s in the bed setting what would you attach them to? They normally go on the bars don’t they? Surely you take the bars off when you turn it into a bed?

Seems everyone else beat me to it. There’s a reason you can’t find them

Please, please, PLEASE don't buy a cot bumper!
They are beyond dangerous and a huge risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome / suffocation for young children.

The Lullaby Trust website has information around safer sleeping; it's much better to be safe.

The ties on the bumper are dangerous. They are dangerous as the bumper can pull away leaving the risk of strangulation. Take a look at Justice for Preston on Facebook.

@Mesmeri even if correctly secured toddlers can get caught up in cot bumpers and risk strangulation.

There is just NO REASON ever to buy them.

Just re read your OP, you’re looking for bed guards not a bumper. Try a pool noodle under the fitted sheet at the exposed edge.

Although I wouldn’t voluntarily remove cot sides under they are climbing out

If it's a cot bed with no sides where in earth would you put the bumper? Do you mean a bed guard?

It's not just cot death/ suffocation that's the risk. One child, I believe it was Preston on the FB page I mentioned died from the ties. His parents had attached it correctly but the tie came away from the bumper.

They are dangerous for any age. They are a risk of strangulation.

Ive got individual ones that go around each bar...

Inflatable bumpers in a special fitted sheet are very good. You can also take them away with you. Like a soft and portable bed guard. My dd1 was also convinced to stay in bed (not dd2).

How do people not know about the danger of these in 2019?!

I had hippy chick ones. Pricey, but often on eBay.