New cot mattress?

[ZuleikaJambiere]

The FSID recommendation is 'ideally you should buy a new mattress for each new baby' - but how many of you did buy a new mattress?

We bought a good quality mattress for DD, she slept in the cot for less than 2 years so it is in good condition - clean, no obvious wear and tear. And as we've had it from new we know where its been and what it's been through

What is the risk if we re-use, as long as we are careful about bedding, room temperature etc?

hi, i bought a new one for ds2. ds1 was in it for nearly 2 years and i knew that it was recommended for each new baby. i'm not sure of the risk but for the sake of £60 i bought a new one because if anything happened to dc2 i would have blamed myself for not getting a new matress even if it had nothing to do with it iykwim? i got a new one in ikea and a protector to go over the top.

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We're not buying a new one (there'll be 5 years between our two). It has been used off and on since DS moved into his toddler bed as a mattress on the floor when friends have sleepovers so has been regularly aired. It is also all natural fibres and very firm, so I don't see the need to replace it. Baby won't be in it for the first few months anyway as I've invested in a bedside crib for the early months this time.

We didnt buy a new one for ds2 4 years ago, although we will buy one for ds3 who is due in January, more because we had a cot bed which ds1 slept in until he was nearly 4 & ds2 used it until he was nearly 4 too, I think 8 years is enough for one mattress to be used!..imo

We borrowed a cot for DD1 and got a new mattress. For DD2 the cot&mattress had gone, so we got a secondhand cot from ebay and another new mattress. This time around we have a secondhand moses basket with a new mattress for it, but when baby is big enough for the cot we will hot-wash the cot mattress and re-use as baby won't be in it til 4 months or so, so I'm not as worried about it. the website I looked at (FSID site ) said the biggest risks were using a mattress that had been used by another household, not jist another baby (not sure why this is though).

I've not bought new mattresses for Moses Basket and Cot - the link with SIDS is statistical - i.e. no proven mechanism, and only just significant. I tend to think that it's more likely to be some other factor, not the mattress itself (2nd hand stuff being more likely to be used in poor households for example).
On this basis I'm just making sure that they are good condition, undamaged, etc, plus cleaning with disinfectant so that they don't transfer any lurgy from one child to the next.

I'm not getting one, DS is 13m now and has been in the cot part time since about 6m, full time ish since 11m, he'll be 18m when the baby is born, so 6m in the moses basket/our bed, means the mattress will have only been used for about 18m (about a year of full time use) when DC2 goes into it!!
Think I might get a new moses basket mattress though as that was hardly expensive, and it has been in the attic...? :)

I am getting a new kingsize bed for me and DH (and whoever sneaks in during the night) though

We have got a new mattress for the Moses basket, I hadn't even thought that baby won't be in the cot when it's tiny. Thanks for pointing out the obvious!

I think a new king size bed isn't just good practice, but probably the law

I probably wouldn't. I think it's ok to use w different babies but not different households as you know its history, how clean it is, where stored, etc. Read somewhere that the danger is in ripped mattresses, or ones that have been stored in dusty environments, rather than because another child used it.