To not want PFB sleeping in 37 year old cot?

[Mitsouko]

Ok, I'll bet this has been done before many a time, but just trying to canvas opinions here. DH and I would like to take 3 month old DD to visit grandparents this summer. It's a 4 hour train journey and we don't have a car so we have to travel light. Good friend in DH's hometown has offered to let us borrow a travel cot for DD - so far so good. However, MIL is kicking up a fuss as she says this will not be necessary as she has perfectly good wicker crib and mattress that we can use. Both have been in the garage for 37 years - as they were both used by DH and his sister. She will clean the crib and air the mattress. But seriously - 37 years? Maybe the crib, but the mattress, surely not? Or am I being terribly PFB?

I'm really jealous of everyone whose babies sleep in lovingly cleaned and refurbished heirloom cribs while up at the gps. That is really sweet!

Yanbu
all my kids every single one and the foster babies I used to have have used a crib that was handmade for my oldder bro whose now 40 but every single one has had a brand new mattress my mum would often buy the mattress as a gift for the new baby but if she hadn't I would have done so.
According to her when we were babies that was also the done thing new baby = new mattress granted we wernt in the uk all the time so where she got that advice I don't know but it was just what was done.
My lo is soon to move to cot I'm having my sisters as her youngest has outgrown it but mum is ordering new mattress as a gift when I'm done with cot it will be passed to a friend or family member with a new mattress as a congrats on new baby gift it's just what we do

Seriously Mitsubishi the phil and teds one is tiny and weighs very little. It fits under my buggy, or I just hang it off the handles. Your dh could manage it as well as suitcase and caraway easily. It fits in my suitcase!

Personally when I traveled alone with ds I put him in the sling, the suitcase in his buggy and put the travel cot underneath. Or put him in his buggy and wore a rucksack ( with travel cot underneath). Day bag hanging from handles. Did several long train journeys with upto 4 connections ( 6 hours) without issue.

Car seat not caraway! Damn iPhone

tbh i would say cant you come and visit us?We have a new baby and a 4 hr train journey is annoying as it is without a baby and luggage aswell.

could the baby sleep with you?

oh sorry just saw post about co sleeping lol!

just get one of those amazing pop up cot things! you should be able to transport it with ease.

These are not like a traditional travel cot. They collapse smaller and are lighter/more mobile.

Samsonite Pop up Bubble Travel
or
Koo-di Travel Cot and Basinette

both cheap on ebay and I wonder if you could wash beforehand?

Would you let your baby sleep in a 37 yr old house?

Well, would you? Why?

Mindyourownbusiness baby was fine. Thanks for asking!

Had a similar issue with MIL, although hers wasn't 37 years old. But she smokes and the cot and mattress reek of it. I turn up with our travel cot whenever we go. Make some excuse about the fact DS never sleeps very well when he isn't in his own travel cot.

RelaxedandCalm

Yeah finally l did the decent thing and asked didnt l ?

Very very glad to hear it.

I would make a joke and say just say no way is baby sleeping on that manky old flea pit.

That said I have a beautiful cot that I bought for DC3 when we lived in North America.......it really is beautiful and I can imagine my grandchildren in it....with a new matress of course.

Just adding that DC3 is only 18 mo and still sleeps in it.

is there a problem with old houses? mines several hundred years old

Both mine slept in the crib that my mother slept in nearly 80 years ago so 37 years really wouldn't bother me.

Samsonite travel cot mentioned above and here is the Koo-di one -- doting ILs not included.

It's not specifically the age itself that bothers me, more that its been sitting in a dusty, damp garage for nearly 40 years and I don't know what kind of condition its in or what kind of cleaning job Mil is prepared to do. She said she would give it a wipe down and air out the mattress in the garden, that's all.

I understood used mattresses to be a SIDS risk, so I wouldn't be happy with an old cot and mattress. I'd take my own travel cot and tell MIL to bog off if she objected.

What a shame it hasn´t been looked after.

Sounds nicer than a travel cot.