Child sleeps on a mattress on the floor

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Went for dinner and a playdate with my Ds new friend. Mum is very nice, child lovely. Ds called me upstairs to show me his friends lego building and his bed was a mattress on the floor, is this normal? Mum very bohemian, house very messy and not well looked after-I am not judging and these things don't bother me, my house needs painting and some new furniture, so I get it, but is a mattress as a bed ok?

😂😂😂 It's a training machine then, for the same price!

My 8 year old has a mattress on the floor
with sheets/pillows/duvet! It’s more for safety in our house as he’s a mover - I stand it up every other day to air.

Maybe a divan base would be more appropriate in this case? Im still like this with frames. Im 37 and hate putting my foot down out of a bed that has a gap under.

My kids have hardly any toys in their bedroom as they are never in their rooms. Instead they are spread in various piles all across the rest of the house which, yes, does look very untidy but I dont really care. They don't have mattresses on the floor however often do not have sheets in the day as if it is bed change day, I take the sheets off, leave the mattresses to air out a bit then replace later on in the day before bed. I wouldn't assume a child didn't have bed sheets because of one quick glance into their room.

After having been invited for dinner.

I'll be rushing out to John Lewis to buy a valance next time I have guests.

I’m a 70s baby when I finally got my own room I had Victoria plumb wallpaper and pink girly bed while my brothers older and younger had superman wall paper and blue beds. Very themed. As teens in the later 80s/90s we decorated to our tastes , so teenage “themed” rooms.

Looking back on history there were very much a theme in children’s rooms for wealthy families. So hardly a modern thing.

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Air should circulate round the bed - it could get mouldy! What about divans? And what’s the difference between them? I agree more of an issue about lack of bottom sheet and duvet but are sleeping bags that much different?

For a child yes. They can get in and out easily. No risk of falling.. Whats the point of spending few hundred on a trendy frame that’s basically on the floor when they will outgrow it in a couple of years.

I follow a few mum groups from when I was pregnant with my 2 children and it seems quite common for younger children to have floor beds. As long as there no mould underneath due to poor ventilation then I don't see a problem. I suppose it's great for children who move a round a lot in their sleep. Unfortunately we have very small bedrooms so I needed under bed storage so it was never an option for us.

Since the age of 6 my child has refused sheets, a pillow and a duvets I have tried endlessly to make her bed nice, she’s autistic and prefers no sheet no pillow and just a throw. I would be fucking mortified if someone posted about me on mumsner.

Wow I am so amazed at this thread. I am very houseproud, keep my home very clean and tidy and am meticulous in how I care for my son who is now 4.5. He slept on a small double mattress on the floor since about age 2. At first I aired it every day as I was worried about mould but then realised that was excessive and did it every couple of weeks.
It worked perfectly for us as he liked being able to climb in and out and I never had to worry about him rolling.
I have never heard of this being somehow worrying or abnormal.
It's funny too how many in the thread assumes a mattress on the floor isn't being regularly aired.

I am literally reading this from mattress on the floor of my 3 year olds room, while I put him to bed.... so yeah, probably terrible parenting 🙄

In my culture sleeping on the floor is the norm. We all do it. We have like futons but more easily packed away and then it opens the room as another play/social space.

Inwould be more concerned about hygine and unresonable mess, child unclean and clothes unclean.

My grandson is currently sleeping on the floor as his bed broke last week. Bought another hopefully stronger bed from Argos who broke it on delivery and now can’t redeliver until the first week of October! Grandson will have to make do with his mattress on the floor for a little while longer he’s cool with it but his mum is not.

No they don't. Any more than mattresses in a divan bed. My son had a mattress in the floor because he was lethal and would duve off a bed, Dr said it was the safest choice. Like when the mattress was on the bed it was turned and aired regularly

Need space under the mattress to stop mould so shouldn’t be directly on the floor no

No sheet is gross but we don’t know that he sleeps in it without a sheet though as the bedding might just be in the wash.

I think the mattress on floor is ok short term but not in the long run.

I had this as a child just because I preferred it! Could be the case here?

Most posters agree it's not a problem, and only a few say otherwise, but the majority consensus is not the 'norm'? Okaaaaaaay.......

Floor bed fine, mines been in one since 12 months . Just a mattress does have a risk of mould but it really isn’t any of your business

Maybe she’d just taken the sheet off to wash and dry that day

Your issue is the room doesn’t have a theme?

We used a floor bed (mattress on the floor) with our eldest between about 16m and 2.5 years. I used to have to breastfed him to sleep on his bed, so was easier to do this on a floor bed than on a toddler bed with side rails. We used to stand the mattress up against to wall during the day when he wasn't in the room to air it out underneath.

ETA: I am lying on an ottoman bed right now. How do mattresses on ottoman and divan beds get air underneath them to prevent mould?! What sort of beds do PP who've raised the mould point sleep on?

it may surprise you but we have thought of this 😉 however my daughter is very….particular.

It all paints a picture I guess?