5 months and outgrowing bedside crib!

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My LO is 5 months old and is reallly outgrowing the snuzpod. There’s no room for the cot from the nursery to come into our room and obviously safe sleep guidelines state to sleep in the same room as you until 6 months. We don’t have a chair/bed in the nursery either.

Just after some general advise as to what you’d do in this situation.

We had the same issue. Luckily we were able to squeeze the cot into the bedroom, I wouldn't have wanted DD to sleep away from us at such a young age. In fact we soon ended up co-sleeping (bed sharing) anyway when the 8 months sleep regression hit. Bought a new mattress as it has to be s firm mattress and moved the bed around so baby would be on the side against the wall so couldn't fall out. And used warmer PJs and a big cellular blanket for me instead of the duvet.

If you can't do either of these (cot in bedroom/her sleeping in your bed), I'd set up a bed for you in the nursery.

Would a travel cot work?

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Try the smallest size travel cot you can fit in, you can buy a better mattress for them, Asda sell them. It's only for a couple of months then you can use it as a playpen downstairs when your baby starts getting mobile, I used to throw all the toys in at bedtime.

Slightly different circumstances, but we're moving house in a few months and our five month old will get her own room then, but she will definitely be out of the snuzpod before we move and there's no room for a big cot in our current bedroom. We bought a travel cot for her to sleep in when she gets too big for the snuzpod. We're hoping we can transition her to the travel cot, then keep her in it with us for a while in the new house, move it into her room then move her into a cot after a while.

We got the Joie kubbie sleep because it has a drop down side and can be used as a next to me.

There are 'hacks' with some of the IKEA cots where you can take the side off them and use them like a bigger bedside crib - could you try that with your cot? Would it fit if it was effectively attached to one side of the bed? Otherwise, consider getting a single mattress and sleeping on it in the babies room next to the cot.

Thank you for the suggestions. I will buy a travel cot for the next three weeks until he can go into his own room!