The results are in - this is the UK's best newborn bed. Do you agree?

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After weeks of trawling talkboards, talking to parents and researching bestsellers, we put the best of the best newborn beds on the market through some real-life, extreme testing to find the best sleeping options for your newborns.

Each of the newborn beds was put through its paces for a whole week, and tested on the following criteria – safety and stability, ease of assembly, day-to-day usefulness, cleanliness, aesthetics and value for money. Any accompanying fabrics such as sheets or bedding were always washed in the same way on the same wash cycle, too, so we know just how easily each is to clean.

The results are in and the Sleepyhead was our overall winner. Take a look at our full list of Mumsnet Best Newborn Beds to find out what we thought to the rest of the beds we tested, whether you're on a budget or looking to splash out.

Do you agree? Share your feedback below

@CL1982 I did extensive googling before putting my daughter in it thank you very much. And yes when you haven't slept in 4 weeks you do sometimes need to make decisions. There were many things I said I would 'never touch with a bargepole' before I was a mother but sometimes things change, I'm sure you'll soon realise that.

FWIW I also have the Snuzpod, really recommend now that DD will actually sleep in it.

@Rae90 Please do not think i'm making any comments on your parenting-we all do what we have to get Us through the early days and I am in no position to judge (which I'm not btw). I know the famous 'I would never give that to my baby' is pacifiers-If I had £1 for every friend who said they wouldn't use one and then did I'd be rich! I have a stock ready and waiting on their advice. Honestly as I said, we do what we need to survive. I have all this to come, you're right!

As I have said I'm just very surprised that Mumsnet enforced a product which has such controversial undertones and isn't endorsed by several leading safe sleep charities. That is it really!

Snuzpod and sleepyhead were both brilliant for us.

I don't think the sleepyhead has been linked to any cases of SIDS, but due to the nature of it it just can't meet the lullaby requirements?

I completely get that sometimes you somewhat you have to do, and I co slept with my first just to get some sleep because I was honestly unsafe without some sleep. But I didn't do it correctly. I was lucky, I know that now.

It's not that they cause deaths, it's that they go against safe sleeping guidelines and for that reason i don't think mumsnet should be bigging them up without drawing attention to the fact it doesn't comply. Because I think it has a responsibility to do so and I'm glad it isn't first (but I don't think it needs to be included really, not least because it isn't actually a bed)

So please don't think it's about criticising individuals because I understand how utterly awful sleep deprivation is. I just think, that much like cosleeping use of the sleepyhead should be an informed decision based on balancing the risks. Not as a miracle cure.

The snuzpod has been great here, will be a shame to stop using it when too small

We tried the sleepyhead with reticence but it wasn’t right for dd, it didn’t calm her the opposite in fact

We loved the snuzpod, used it with two babies (with a new mattress obviously).

Really liked my Snuzpod- would recommend

We've borrowed a sleepyhead and was planning to use it for downstairs naps during the day, when we'd be in the same room as the baby - does anyone know whether that kind of use complies with the guidelines?

We got a chicco next2me for nighttime as it was bigger than snuzpod so hoping it lasts a bit longer.

Shocked about recommending the sleepyhead. I can't believe they are allowed to be sold.

Why Rose?

Because it isn't in liine with safe sleeping guidelines and clearly a mumsnet endorsed product is highly influential on new mums.

@harrietm87 Sleepyheads own guidelines say it's only suitable for supervised sleeping so I'd imagine day time use where you are present would be fine. The lullaby trust has some good information on safe sleep which would be worth a look. As with everything, you do your own research and despise where your line is based on what you discover. We decided not to use one, but I know many people had huge success with them.

@CL1982, I don't think we're too much in disagreement, probably just have a different take on the risks. It was really just your comment "Isn't it a little counter productive that something that has quite negative reports for causing SIDS is being endorsed by Mumsnet?" that I thought was misleading as there are no reported cases of the sleepyhead causing SIDS.

I agree it doesn't meet the lulabye trust guidelines and as such perhaps mumsnet should not endorse. However, I think it's useful for parents to be informed that the product has been used extensively all over the world for many many years with no infant deaths linked to it. And I think it is relevent to distinguish between particular products and not just lump all nests/sleep positioners together as they are all made to very different safety specs.

It can be an absolute sanity saver for parents with babies who will not sleep anywhere else and this level of scaremongering can be quite unhelpful at such an emotionally charged time for parents of tiny babies.

Wtf is supervised sleeping? If you’re going to have to physically be there while your baby sleeps why wouldn’t you just hold it?

We put our sleepyhead inside our snuzpod which seemed to work really well! I didn’t know about the “supervised sleeping” thing - does anyone have a link?

www.kidspot.com.au/baby/newborn/newborn-sleep/devastated-mums-warning-she-suffocated-in-this-stupid-stupid-bed/news-story/9e3d8f9273bbb8e27cb0daa38246c410

The Mum states “they’re sold everywhere” indicating it is a large well known brand of these baby mattresses.

So there’s one for the SIDS death, how many more babies deaths are needed before it’s acceptable to warn others NOT to use these?

It is an annoying situation as no one will say yes go for it including sleepyhead but afaik sids has not occurred from it. So we deliberated over it, didn’t keep it in the end anyway but if it works I can see why people do use it

Supervised sleeping is surely a get out clause from responsibility, passing more to the parent

X post that’s awful was it a sleepyhead, they should just say the brand

They won’t be allowed as they could get sued.
But this from the Lullabye Trust says it all
“We recommend that, while evidence on individual products is not widely available, parents do not take any chances and stick to scientifically proven safer sleep guidelines.”

They did with the bednest death must be a different situation. I googled like mad when dd would only sleep on me in the first week and felt beside myself

Snuzpod sorted it out it was a risk at £200 but worth it in the end

@PieceOfTheMoon I hear you on scaremongering-it's been non stop since I got pregnant! This board shows how divided people are on these products. I was just very surprised they had backed them so strongly.

I find the whole baby industry unsettling. It feels as though many 'needed' products are actually just ways of extorting cash from worried new parents. I don't think it does Mumsnet's PR any good sometimes to endorse all the high end products which don't necessarily scan all that well with what I've read elsewhere! I think these should be used if parents are really desperate as a short term tool, but selling it as a 'bed' is a little fishy...

Anyway....it's good it's saved many a new parent's sanity and long may they keep coming up with safe things to make our lives easier!!!

www.madeformums.com/news-and-gossip/tesco-mothercare-and-ebay-remove-sleep-positioners-from-sale/43265.html

The full article including the official stance of the Lullabye Trust who say no to all the products eg positioners, nests, pods, etc.

No wonder as a first time mum to be my anxiety is sky-high, I’m stressing that everything I have bought is “wrong” and will somehow harm my baby.
Seems there’s so much stuff on sale that’s actually not recommended. Quite shocking really.

@Boomerangb0bby I guess the thing to hold onto is we're all here after a baby-hood of being put on our tummies in warm rooms with lots of toys, bumpers and fluffy blankets piled around us!

I get it though. I think you just do your best with what you have ❤️

@Boomerangb0bby, I know, the whole thing is so anxiety causing! I researched a lot before using the sleepyhead and decided in the end I was comfortable with the balance of risks. Afterall, it's no more dangerous than driving your baby in a car, which many people (me included) do all the time for convenience. I decided being able to get some sleep was safer all round for our whole family.

Others will have a different view on the risk/benefit trade off, but at least make that decision on the available evidence. And don't imagine you can remove risk from your life entirely - it's all a trade off.