Bedside crib, anyone got one? Looking for a good deal and struggling...

[sedgieloo]

I am 33 wks and this is about the last thing on my list to get for dc2, I want a co-sleeping crib rather than a cot that will last 6 months, then I can move dd out into a regular bed and use.

There are a few out there but so expensive and I keep missing out on ones on ebay or they are not in my area and pick up only.

I am not an NCT member, do they do member offers on their really expensive ones?

DS was in bednest up til about 7 months (ahem - he did fit, but it was getting cosy....) -

Then in a cot in the same room as us at the foot of the bed (cot was about £70 plus mattress etc) - then we moved him to his own room at around 11 months, in the same cot.

Tbh, DS was/is an awful sleeper - he is 2 and a half and has never slept through the night, and now he starts off in his own bed in his room and then comes in with me to co-sleep in a double bed when he wakes up. For us, it's the only way we can get enough sleep as a family. I won't do any kind of leaving him to cry thing (I think he would just become absolutely hysterical and I can't sit through that) and resettling him in his own bed just means that both parents end up exhausted. He often needed resettling 4 or 5 times, and it could take up to an hour. We were wrecks. Sleeping with me, he does have the odd wake up, but has a drink of milk and settles within minutes, no crying.

Anway, that's not what you asked! Bednest to cot to big boy's bed was an expensive way of doing it - I don't regret the bednest though, it was so easy and as I had a CS and was BF-ing, then being able to reach DS easily in the night was very helpful.