Chicco next to me

[barleyteddy]

Hi we've been given a chicco next to me cot to use. Wanted to ask a couple of questions... When it's attached to our bed there's a lip of a few cm sticking up between our mattress and the cot mattress. I had thought they'd be equal so that the cot was essentially an extension of our adult bed and I could roll baby back to cot after breastfeeding. I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong? The cot is tight against our bed but when roll mesh side down to create a cosleeper cot it seems I'd have to lift baby in and out of cot over this bit that sticks up?! Which sort of defeats the purpose? I must be doing something wrong!! Help please!

Anyone?!

Do you have the instructions of this cot? If not it would be worth downloading them, I expect they'll be on their website.

Sorry I don't have it so I can't help directly, but I agree that a lip sounds unsafe, indeed, there was an NCT cot which tragically caused the death of a baby because of a lip like this, so definitely don't use it like that. It should either be flush with your bed or the barrier should be so high that the baby can't accidentally roll onto it and get stuck.

Looking at the pictures on the website, it seems like the lip is supposed to be level with your mattress so that it creates a sort of step up to your bed, perhaps to stop the baby rolling in during the night. Though to me, I agree, this would defeat the point! Check the manual to see if there's another way to set it up.

With ours there was a kind of lip but it wasn't very big, it meant we did have to lift her up to get her in to our bed but that wasn't such a bad thing, it meant she didn't just roll straight in to our bed.

I didn't notice it being an issue and I didn't even remember it until I saw your post (DD is now 15 months).

Thanks, the lip is about 5cm in height the way we set it up but we have the instructions, I'll have another look. Just feel paranoid about using it after reading about the bednest incident.... I wonder if I should have top of lip level with our mattress and cot mattress 5cm lower down rather than having both mattresses level with lip separating them?

For ours we had the baby's mattress lower than ours so the lip was against our bed IYSWIM. That meant even if she lifted her head up it wouldn't be able to fall over anything, it would just rest on our mattress.

I don't remember her ever doing that though, her best trick was to just rotate during the night so she was sideways and the soft sides meant she didn't hurt her head when she did that.

Ok thanks, I'll try to fit it this way and see how we go. It's a shame can't make the 2 mattresses level and just roll as was hoping to avoid lifting baby after c section

Yes, that is what the pictures on the website show.

If it bothers you perhaps you could get a second mattress to put under the baby's one so that you can place the whole thing lower and eliminate any lip at all. I can see why people might prefer the way it's designed but it would annoy me as well.

Do you have another cot or is this the only one that you have?

Hi I have another crib (wooden glider) but with previous kids I ended up cosleeping in our bed much of the time. I had thought a side sleeper might be safer option this time round given other kids sometimes still come through for a cuddle!