Mid sleepers with tunnels

[Pankhurst09]

I have just bought a midsleeper for my daughter. It came with tent and slide and tunnel. She is 5 years and 6 months. I absolutely appreciate the concerns about safety regarding the bed being higher than before, the slide being effectively a 'toy' feature and also something to be aware of.

Where I have the real issue is the tunnel. The bed went up yesterday, it got the response I had hoped for when my daughter walked in from school and saw it!! Amazing 😍 I had paid for a joiner to fit it all with safety in mind. When I got up there last night to read a story (that was a sight and workout in itself 😉) I was really concerned by the extremely hard metal bars that held the tunnel together. So, tonight I made a point of saying, "just be careful of those bars" two seconds later she adjusted herself in bed, knocked just under her eye, was very upset and distressed and ended up with a fairly sore bruise.

Obviously in light of what had just happened, in I come with a screwdriver, a number of choice words and an undignified struggle to get said tent directly off the midsleeper otherwise I'd never forgive myself if the little one woke in the middle of the night and did some more serious damage by unwittingly clunking her little head off the extremely hard metal frame.

The reason I'm posting on here is because I'm A-genuinely concerned that another wee one might get a serious injury and B- I've looked on google etc... and can't find any other obvious complaints, which I find really hard to believe after what I witnessed tonight and the subsequent undignified removal of the tunnel. I genuinely can't understand how these tunnels pass safety regulations? If you put a hard metal frame above my bed right at head height I'd do myself an injury! Never mind a little one who usually has a more disturbed sleep/less spatial awareness. Anyone else?

Haree I'm totally with you on that but I still don't want the issue to get lost on the fact that although the tunnel is not 100% in the correct place (due to the company's lack of diagrams/instructions) this is still a very hard metal frame. Put that above my bed- at any height! And at some point there is a good chance I will sustain an injury- possibly a serious one.

This seems odd. Comparing your photo and the one from Very it doesn't look as if the bed has been incorrectly built. The picture from Very clearly shows that the tunnel fits inside the bed and goes down by the side of the mattress, rather than as some posters suggested, just being fitted on top of the side rails. However, in your picture the tunnel does look a lot lower down than the illustration. Where you have the pillow makes the tunnel look very claustrophobic. Is your mattress and/or pillow particularly high? Also I don't understand how the bars are such heavy metal? Surely in order to flex they would have to be plastic?

Regardless, I think the tunnel is a complete nightmare anyway, from the point of view of bed-making, sheet-changing or just, as you said, trying to get up there for cuddles and story! Probably best off in the cupboard!

Not sure why I am becoming a bit obsessed with this now but if you look at the second picture of the bed on the Very site (the one with the two children playing on the bed) there is clearly enough room for a child to sit up in that tunnel and from your picture it doesn't seem as if there is anything like enough room there. Is there something wrong with the dimensions of the bed you have bought or is it just the angle of the photo?

Unfortunate events I agree wholeheartedly with all your points- I have just changed all bedding and the pillows are very plump and new- unlike my own 😬 Exactly, you would expect at the very least plastic, at best some sort of foam construction- NO! This is very hard metal! I thought if little one wakes up early hours and tries to get into bed with me (good chance) then she has a very real chance of a hard metal bar over her head, the severity depending on what height, what speed she gets out of bed. I'm not willing to take that chance- wherever the tunnel might be fitted!

Unfortunate I think the angle comes in to play- little one could easily sit under and her sister. The issue remains the same- hard metal bars above a bed?! Not any bed, a child's bed?!

I have the same one from Very and my tall 5 year old can sit up and read in it happily. Never had a problem with it and he loves it, the metal is hard but heads shouldn't come in to contact with it. The only thing we have a problem with is changing the bedding and the slide taking up half the room. It does look low in your picture and possibly too close to the top of the bed? It was a complete pain to fit and DP really wants to get rid of it but I'd be too worried he'd fall out (extremely clumsy DS). I have attached a photo of how ours looks. Well done getting in to the bed, I now take DS and read in my bed or on the sofa, his dad stands at the side of DS's bed to read, no way either of us would get down again

Snipsnap I don't think my picture did it justice from the other angle it did look very like your picture and she could sit up. She was just moving about as kids do and bumped her face. I am now worried about rolling out I think some form of side rail is the way to go. Yes, getting in is abut of fun 😀

And out!