Cot top changer or changing table?

[cupcake78]

Limited space in baby room and considering a cot top changer. With ds I just used the top of his chest of draws and bought a good changing mat. It worked really well. I need something to save my back as my children tend to be long and heavy.

There isnt as much space in the babys room 6ft/6ft and we have the cot and nursing chair to fit in along with as much baby stuff as possible.

It's always down to space with these things.
Go for a cot top changer, it will be better for your back too, being higher . Some changers are so low, and some are so bloody huge!
Get a cot top changer, but get some kind of plastic tubs which you can hang on the side for storage of nappies/wipes etc.
Or a little shelf on the wall.
Some cot top changers have a bar on them to hang things off.
Just make sure you don't have anything that could be a hazard. X

Changing mat on the floor. Basket with nappies/wipes etc in.

Babies can't do themselves a mischief if they roll off then.

To add - it doesn't need to be hard on your back if it's on the floor, as long as you sit rather than kneel and bend.

I never used either of them and lay them on the changing mat on the floor and sat with my legs on either side of it.

I loved my cot top changer and I hung a baby mirror mobile above it which they all loved

It was the older version of this www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Infantino-baby-mobile-mirror-/151013875294?pt=UK_Toys_Games_Toys_CA&hash=item232920de5e

Dining room/kitchen table!

I just have multiple changing mats all over the house and endless baskets of nappies & wipes.Do night changes on the floor on mat next to Ikea plug in night light

I just bought this from mothercare for £50 (£60 & £10 off £50 purchase if you download their iPhone app). It's a dresser as well so can be used to store clothes too:

www.mothercare.com/Mothercare-Mido-Changing-Unit/472400,default,pd.html

I'm another one for using the floor! After 5 months DS was just itching to fling himself of the (cheap IKEA) changing table so we changed to the bed/floor. Now it sits gathering dust. Next to the baby bath. And the mobile.
I am aware that not everyone has a baby on a budget (obviously!) but there are some things just not worth bothering to buy, especially if you're pushed for space.

I hope I haven't crapped on your post, OP!

Cot top changer. I've had both the chest of drawers with the changing bit on top and the cot top version, no significant difference that I noticed. Also at least if they do roll off its a nice soft landing!

I also have a bad back and dodgy knees so the floor isn't an option for me. Once they were too big for the changing table thing I did them on my knee.

I would get a cot top changer. I found it dead handy for the first couple of months then was able to sell it.

You will find it an essential if you end up with a CS as getting onto the floor is hard for a few weeks. I didn't have one after my EMCS and was in so much pain getting up and down. Once you're physically back to normal then the floor is fine.

Floor/sofa/coffee table etc here. I've never got on with specific changers. Apart from worrying about them falling off, I've never liked changing a baby sideways. I prefer to be facing their feet, not side.

Floor. The other options become impractical/dangerous the moment babies start moving and wriggling, and certainly by the time they're toddlers.

The baby will.probably be in your room for the first sox.months so Id just get a sponge change mat and do it.on your bed at night, and the living room floor in the daytime. Or better still, on your knee.

Don't agree with above post about cot top changers after a certain age, I've only ever used that for changing and dd now 18 months, I prefer it as I don't have to bend its the perfect height, can't imagine going downstairs to use a kitchen table in the middle of the night , not sure if mines called a cot top it is a hard changing mat with raised sides that are padded/ wipeable that lips onto cot at the back think it was £25 from mothercare also agree with poster about it being much easier to change them facing their feet which is what this dies, I hate side on changers, floors might be fine but personally being pregnant again now floors are not the easiest places to get up off