drop-sides in cotbeds and teething rails

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roseybump · 13/08/2004 08:20

boring one - but a quickie!
Any comments on drop-sides on cot beds? useful?I'm about to buy, and have visions on trapped little fingers and the one's with drop-sides I have seen look a bit wobly-rattly!, but sore back is telling me otherwise! Can't seem to find one I like anyway. Can you buy teething rails separately anywhere. I can't seem to make even the silliest of decisions - I thought that was just a pregnancy thing!!!

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LIZS · 13/08/2004 08:46

Can you get dropsides on cot beds, thought I'd only ever seen them on cots ? fwiw we had a cot with a drop side and never bothered to use it - hand operated as just couldn't get the knack of foot operated ones in the shops. If you can get a cot/cot bed with several different base levels you only really need to bend when they are bigger and the base has to be lowered (can pull to sit and stand) and you can be less precious with them by then !! I've seen teething rails separately (Blooming Marvellous, I think, or GLTC) but again mine never really gnawed anyway so our built-in ones were never tested out.

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tiredemma · 13/08/2004 15:19

i have a cosatto drop side cot bed (style "chantelle" which we bought about 4 years ago, its side completly drops under the cot so that you can have it right next to you bed.
it also has a teething rail already on it. ds2 age 13mths is in it now and i can honestly say its the best thing we could of ever bought and no little fingers have ever been caught in it!!!

tiredemma · 13/08/2004 15:19

sorry didnt meant to put a winky eye there! dont know what happened

florenceuk · 13/08/2004 15:36

Definitely get a dropside - I used a cotbed on holiday and it is a real pain having to bend down and pick up your little one. Particularly when you are 7mths pregnant and your "little" one is a good 12kg or more! Remember with a cotbed you will be using it for a long-ish time, and by the time they are one you will want to have the base quite low to avoid them climbing out. I noticed that Mothercare catalogue has quite a few dropside cot beds. Teething rails are available separately, but TBH I never saw DS knaw his cot anyway!

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