DS3 is currently in a Moses basket, he is outgrowing it.
From my experiences from my other two sons I hate cots as did they. My biggest issue was my back absolutely kills at the age where I need to lower them into cots. They woke for feeds, which I don’t begrudge. 😊. Just hurt me a lot to put them back in. This was made worse by the fact they both didn’t want to be in the cot so the lowering happened more than I wanted.
Anyway, I gave up on cots at around one year old both times went to a mattress or a cot bed. Would IBU to go directly to a mattress at 5mo.?
My biggest issue is our room is small and DS3 potentially could roll under our bed. If anyone could give me a safe way to prevent this, that would be great. I realise I could research this myself but I know i would just come back to mumsnet for a quick and sensible answer