** Title changed by MNHQ ** AIBU To think that the bednest thing looks dangerous !!!!

[OopsDearyMe]

I just watched This Morning, normally I avoid it when Holly and Phill aren't on it, but I was curious about this baby nest thing and how this poor baby died.
Am I the only one who took one look at the baby nest and thought that it looked dangerous anyway. It looks very rickity and the top section where the pull down sides are have a gap between them that a baby food or hand could easily become wedged.
I am in no way blaming the parents, but I just think it STILL looks badly designed and dangerous to me.

Saucy what people's meant was that the OP put 'babynest' in the title which is a completely different product to the 'bednest'. The baby died in a bednest not a babynest.

I know I could not edit ,but I could delete and re post. I'm not on a campaign to besmirch someone's company .

Not sure what gap you are seeing, we have this and there is nothing that the baby can get caught in when used properly. It is not flimsy at all.

We had a Bednest for dd (now just turned 3). It was great until one time one of the clips which holds it in position failed and it toppled backwards. I contacted Bednest who weren't very concerned and told me it had never happened before. I sent it back and they replaced it and I heard no further. Luckily dd was completely fine but it could have been much worse. Their lack of interest in how serious it was is the main thing which really fucked me off.

Agree with lilygirl there is no space a baby could get their arms of legs caught through. My 2 year old used to sit in the BedNest to give his newborn brother a kiss and stroke his head (while I was next to them) it really isn't flimsy

I didn't find that to be the case in our experience - there was nowhere for an arm or leg to go. The canvas and mesh of the side panel was very strong and thick.

A centimetre or so of solid wood in a well constructed design is ample most of our drawers, shelves etc are similar thickness of MDF or similar. Our fence panels are probably thinner and they're designed to keep intruders out and awake, fully grown children in!

A cm of wood is pretty sturdy! Honestly, I thought it was a good product. It worked well for us. The incident was tragic but as other posters have said tragic accidents can happen with just about anything. As a parent you have to risk assess all the time. When I used it, I sometimes had the side half down. Having heard about this, I wouldn't again. People used to put babies to sleep on their front so they wouldn't choke on their own vomit. Now we know that's not the best way. Tragic accidents often lead to advice to make life safer in some way.

I have just googled - how the hell can the company try and apportion the blame of the baby's death on the toddler?! Absolutely disgusting. Glad to read the judge didn't buy that claptrap. Poor baby, poor family.

It's certainly sturdy enough. Remember most people will be using it right up against their own bed too. I had one for ds2 but this was before this case - I wouldn't use it not but only because I'm uber paranoid. We did used to sleep with the side half up sometimes so I could keep a hand on him in the night. But we also moved on to cosleeping which is not without its own dangers. I think it was a good product. I remember reading about a cosatto cot which a toddler died in, it had two panels which could (before an "update") separate and the little one got stuck. The parents had bought the cot after cosatto realised the fault and was supplying kits to stop it happening. Horrendous. I have also worried about my older boy coming to harm in his bunk bed. You get the picture, there are a million dangerous products out there.
I sold mine on ages ago though I definitely included the full instructions so I hope all was fine.
Good luck deleting your post OP Posters are just trying to help, you can neither edit nor delete your own thread or posts on here.

OopsDearyMe - hardly telling the teacher? I just see a lot of posts with 'edited by MN HQ as posters request' so assumed OP couldnt amend.

It was an NCT recommended cot. The parents obviously felt it was safe as did the other thousands of parents who used the same cot. It was a tragic accident and one the family will probably never recover from.

This thread is highly insensitive. Why would you start a thread about the choices someone made that left their baby dead.

This is a plea for calm and kindness in discussing what it is, clearly, an awfully tragic accident.

We shall keep an eye on this thread but please post thoughtfully