Cotbed or single duvet?

[ditsymum]

My little boy is nearly one and we got a cotbed for him. I am now looking to buy the next lot of bedding.
Do I opt for a cotbed duvet and have to buy baby stuff for it from Mothercare etc or get a single bed duvet where I can buy covers almost anywhere

Advice please

Hi Ditsy

I'd go for a cotbed duvet personally. I kow it mean a bit more expense but at least it will fit your sons cot as it it should. There really is quite a big size differnce between cotbed and single sized duvets, I'd be worried about him getting hot and being unable to 'escape' due to the large expanse of fabric in a single.

God sorry about the appalling number of typos in my last post

The normal dimensions of a cot duvet are 120cm x 160cm. Single duvets are around 200cm x 135cm. That's an enormous difference. I think you'd be suprised just how big a single duvet looks inside your DS's cot.

Those dimensions are for a cotbed duvet and a single.

Yes you could be right my little boy does not sleep where you put him he moves everywhere which is why I do not have a grow bag/sleeping bag for him and he cannot escape if he gets too hot

I chopped the bottom off a single duvet and duvet cover!!!

We moved ds to full size bed at 2 1/4 and he looked completely lost under a full size duvet as well, which we tucked in to stop it bunching up. In fact he used a small one I had made while pregnant (120 x 100cm) at first and still uses this sometimes as a comforter/lightweight cover in bed and play blanket. If you are planning to use the cotbed as a bed too I don't think you'll find that you've wasted your money. I'm sure there are some funky designs out there that are not too babyish if that is what concerns you. We've also got bright fleecy blankets in cotbed size for each of ours (one in single bed and one in cot).

Hi. I had this problem and bought a cotbed duvet from Ikea (£9)and cut a single duvet in half to make two covers (because I had one in the right colur I wanted to use!). Ikea also do quite cheap covers for their duvets. My DSs both have them on their bunkbeds - eldest is four and it still covers him just fine - easy to get in the washing machine too. HTH.

I just used a single duvet with ds's cot bed. I just tucked under the excess length (probably nearly half of it!). I never had any problem & because so much is tucked under, it's held firmly in place - better than a cot bed duvet imo.
I can't see how there could be more risk of over-heating - I mean, just don't get a really thick duvet.

I just seems really expensive to buy a cot, plus bedding, then a year later a cot bed plus bedding, then in a couple of years a single bed plus bedding.

Great idea monkey! We put a cotbed duvet on DD, and bought one set of bedding from Ikea (second that their bedding is v. reasonable) but got MIL to make little duvet covers out of ordinary duvet.

She is now doing the same thing with a single duvet, (turning it into two spare duvets for us)so we could have done that all along really! Or just tucked one in as monkey ius suggesting.

Remember you need plenty of spares - of duvet and duvet covers, to make all of those accidents less stressful!

The reason I mentioned over-heating Monkey is t was not because I thought that the tog value would be higher in a sgl duvet but because the sgl duvet is so much larger than the cot bed. I assumed that the duvet would be pulled out from under the mattress (it would be with my wriggly 13 month old), and therefore the duvet would 'scrunh' on the surface of the mattress and the double up, therefore creating more heat.

honestly, wsm, the size difference, as you've said, is so big, that so much is tucked under it's a job enough for me to move it, and it didn't budge an inch with wriggly ds.

Thanks guys I think a trip to Ikea may be in order

Hello . If you are ok with buying second hand linen I have Millie and Boris cot bed stuff including duvet, sheets, cellular blankets, mattress cover etc. (Have mattress as well if you were interested). All washed and in good condition. I had Mothercare Suffolk cot bed, with standard size mattress of 140x80. Just a thought as a way of perhaps saving money and preventing a trip to Ikea. Welcome to come and look if we can agree a price.

You could try www.funkysheets.co.uk they have a massive selection of non character duvets. I had the same dilemma with a single or cotbed and the single duvet was just too big. our dd now nearly 4 is still in her cotbed using the same duvet we brought when she was 18months and we have no plans to move her yet.

We will move her when she is too big for the bed rather than becasue other have their kids in single beds.:)