Used cot mattress

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Would you buy a new cot mattress for your DC2 if DC1 was the only one to use it before?

I am interested in this too. (Sorry no advice). Am thinking of using the same one as DC are close in age.

I would also like to know this

No, definitely not.

I would use a friend's mattress too if it was going free!

When I had my children (both under 5 years old) the advice relating to cot death and safe sleeping was not to share bedding or mattresses. I don't know the age of your child going into the cot, but I understood the official advice to be new user = new mattress and bedding.

If it's been kept in the house (as opposed to a mouldy garage or loft) or used continuously, and you could give it a good clean (ie had a wipe clean surface) then I would reuse.

Otherwise it's just not worth the risk to me. I'd never forgive myself if I had the slightest doubt that it could have Contributed to a tragedy.

DC2 currently co sleeps so is effectively already on a used mattress. That's what's confusing me

Not sure if this is still valid but this link is along the lines of what I had understood from HV
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2380873.stm

Sorry last link wrong one (multi tasking badly) this is the advice I understood we should follow
www.lullabytrust.org.uk/mattresses-and-bedding

I had read that it didn't matter as long as it was clean. Our cot mattress was used for such a small amount of time it was spotless.

Personally I don't think its worth the risk. New mattresses really don't have to cost a lot (just over a fiver for Moses basket and around 20 for a cot/30 for a cot bed). I replaced all mattresses for DD, although I have reused absolutely everything else DS had.