Cosleeping / floor bed and travel?

[FightMilkTM]

My 11 month currently goes to bed in her own room and then comes in to our bed around midnight - works for us.
She REFUSES to sleep in a cot, I expect as she is a flailer and wakes herself up so she has a normal single mattress on the floor in her room. Sometimes she sleeps on it, sometimes she sleeps half on half off, and sometimes she sleeps on the floor next to it
We have a super king so we have a light cover each and sleep on one side of the bed each with her in the middle.
We are going to stay with family in a couple of weeks and we’re trying to work out sleeping arrangements.
Overnight we are thinking me and baby in double bed and husband on air mattress.
In the evening we are a bit stuck. She can go on the double bed with toddler guards to partially prevent her rolling out but she moves so much (and might just wake up and get out of bed) that we’ll have to watch the monitor like a hawk. Not very relaxing...
I think she’s too young to go on the air mattress on the floor? Though it would only be whilst we are still up so we could keep an eye on her with the monitor and would be for around 3 hours max. I’m Worried about it deflating around her though.
There is a cot so I could just put the cot mattress on the floor and see if she’ll sleep on that? She’ll definitely roll off but bearing in mind she rolls off a single bed without waking I don’t think she’ll mind. I do, however think she’ll look at me like if I try and make her sleep on a foam cot mattress on the floor when she is used to the ‘luxury’ of a full size single mattress.

Thoughts?

Is she moveable once asleep? I’d put her to bed in the bed and then move her to the cot mattress on the floor.

Or if you cover the cot mattress in a single duvet, she might not notice it’s small and go to sleep on it fine.

And air bed should be fine, if it deflates she’ll end up on the floor, that’s all.

Have you ever tried her in a travel cot? Mine used to wake herself up by banging against the sides of her wooden cot (grew out of it eventually) but was fine in the travel cot because the sides were soft.

Tbh i think the problem is less that she might roll off the cot mattress and more that you'd be leaving a toddler loose in someone else's room - that would require some serious babyproofing of literally everything in reach, which would be a huge pain and actually a pretty big ask of someone imo. I definitely wouldn't be comfortable with the idea of a little person having the freedom to roam around a room in my house at night, that has the potential to be pretty unsafe.

Hadn’t thought about moving her whilst asleep. Risky move but it might work!

If the mattress deflated completely and she was on the floor she’d be fine but I’m concerned about it deflating partially and her ending up in a well, particularly on her side or face down.

Her room at home is totally babyproofed as we go to bed whilst she is asleep in there alone. However, I’ll stay with her until she goes to sleep (as I do at home anyway) and will then have her in bed with me overnight so it’s only the evening to worry about. We also have a video baby monitor so if she wakes up and gets out of bed we would just go up and return her to bed. She won’t be unattended in the room in the true sense.

With mine, we always co-slept after first wake up, but yes, I put them on a normal mattress on the floor. I wouldn't use an air mattress. It's not reliably firm enough for an 11 month old. Either drag a single mattress in from another room or bring the cot mattress from home. We actually had a cot (as opposed to our normal cot bed size) mattress just for visiting friends and family.

There’s a cot (and associated mattress!) where we are going. It’s all dismantled because our baby won’t use it and she’s the only visiting baby. So I’ll use the one there BUT we ALSO have a dismantled cot at home. So I might take the cot mattress from home and lay them side by side so she has a larger area.

I’m requesting a cot sleeping 7-7 baby next time.

I would just let her snooze in evening in her pram in living room with you, and then co-sleep as usual

We just got an air bed and it says specifically not to use for small children due to suffocation risk.

She won’t sleep in the pram of an evening unless we all sit in darkness and silence. Not sure our hosts will appreciate that. and if we don’t put her to bed at a usual sort of time we will have absolute scream crying by about 8:30-9:00 😬

Yeah, I think the air bed is a no go. My instinct was saying no but (though this thread probably suggests otherwise!) I’m quite safety conscious so I wanted to make sure it wasn’t ‘just me’.