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Bed or cotbed

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Adreamz · 13/07/2013 19:45

When I have my next baby my little girl will be 2yrs 2months. She is sleeping really well in her cot at the moment. I don't know if I should by a new cotbed for baby no.2 or a bed for my little girl. Whoever gets the new bed will get the new furniture too (wardrobe etc). We can't afford to waste money, so I'm very confused! Please help

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StarlightMcKenzie · 13/07/2013 19:49

Why do you need new furniture and what has that to do with whoever gets a new bed?

For Ds, we took the mattress out of his cot and put it on the floor in his room, and got a new cot for the baby. We put gate on his room.

StarlightMcKenzie · 13/07/2013 19:49

Not a new for for the baby. I meant a new mattress.

Don't understand your furniture issue.

Iwish · 13/07/2013 19:54

I have the same issue hun. My DS will be 2 years 3 months. He's currently in his cot but if I convert it to a bed we would have to buy a new cot for the baby which is a waste. I think I'm going to get DS a new bed that's quite low with a bed guard and put the current cot bed in the babies room. (Until I change my mind again lol) x

rockybalboa · 13/07/2013 19:54

Don't understand the furniture issue either, are you one of these matchy matchy sorts?! My kids have a bed and a chest of drawers for their clothes, what else do they need? 2y2m is plenty old enough for a bed, a cotbed would be a waste of money.

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Adreamz · 13/07/2013 20:00

Basically the furniture all matches so whoever has the current cotbed will have the wardrobe and drawers. Would feel guilty if the new baby always had to have hand me downs (I was the third of 3 and spent my whole life with hand me downs, I don't mind this but it's just in the back of my mind that this new baby should have the same as my first), especially when I think my daughter will probably be unsettled with a new bed and furniture (she would need her own wardrobe etc). If I put her into a bed, I should probably think about doing it now and I know that she will probably just end up sleeping by the door all night long (stairgate on door would be a must). Xps did look to see if I could buy the same set I already had but they don't sell it any more!

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pmgkt · 13/07/2013 20:01

I had ds2 when ds1 was 2 y 6 m and decided on his second birthday he would go into his cot bed, then a few months before ds2 we moved him to a full size single with bed guard in his own room. That meant no new cot, and he now has a bed for the foreseeable future. It's not difficult. Furniture only get if you need it, they don't know if it matches or not, or if its holding clothes for them and their new sibling

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Adreamz · 13/07/2013 20:02

Iwish, I'm glad I'm not the only one, rockybalboa, yes unfortunately I like things matching if possible but I agree it seems a waste of money to buy another cot

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StarlightMcKenzie · 13/07/2013 20:03

A wardrobe is storage, not hand-me-downs.

How worn out could it possibly be in 2 years?

My children share a wardrobe left by the previous owners of the house. I hadn't considered they'd hold it against me.

Chocomama1 · 13/07/2013 20:40

At 2 yrs my girl is in a bed now.
Cot is ready for the baby... personally id transition the toddler into a bed and free up the cot for the baby

PastaBeeandCheese · 13/07/2013 22:02

My DD will be 2yr 3mths when #2 arrives. As she has a cot, changing drawer unit thingy and a built in wardrobe I plan on giving her room to the baby and moving her into a new room on her 2nd birthday.

We will get her a toddler bed, wardrobe and chest of drawers and decorate her new room so it's a bit more child like than the current nursery style she has.

It has never entered my head that new baby will be getting hand me downs. I just consider it to be the nursery furniture owned by us for our children iyswim? Same with Moses basket, swingy chair, car seat etc.

Norfolknway · 14/07/2013 08:46

We have bought a wooden crib for the new baby (DD will be 2.5)
DD is in a cot bed and quite happy - leaving her in there until the new addition is out of crib and will buy DD a new bed and baby can Have her cot bed.

The old bed switcheroo!

kittykatsforever · 14/07/2013 18:11

I had the another cot or big girl bed dilemma though my dd was younger dd2 was due when she was 21 months however we felt buying a new cot for the sake of 6 months was a waste when eventually dd1 would need a bed, I was worried dd1 is a great sleeper and I didn't want to so anything to upset that but we needn't have worried, we panic more then them, as we were getting her room ready we kept letting her go in and saying things like it being a big girls room and how exciting and letting her take people to see it like nana etc then when her matress arrived we asked her did she want to sleep in there and she said yes, she's never been out since and even though she's a climber and explorer she waits in bed til we come and get her and she shouts us, she has a rail guard, if you do it do it before baby arrives and for goodness sake don't worry about hand me downs, I bet your stuff is pristine, how would a baby know?? I don't think my dd1 even remembers it was hers!

4x4 · 14/07/2013 18:27

I have a eighteen month gap between DS1and DS2 and thirteen between DS2 and twins DS3&DS4
We have FOUR cotbeds . All of them are second hand but each got a new mattress. Only the eldest at 3 and a half has the sides off . He is very tall but still has loads of room .
It is up to you but IMO keeping them in
cots works well.

Ra88 · 14/07/2013 18:33

but the 2 yo a single bed . my dd was in a single bed age 2 because she needed a new mattress and I thought it was silly to buy a new cotbed one when in a year or two she would need a single anyway so I went straight for the single bed

Ra88 · 14/07/2013 18:33

buy*

crazyhead · 14/07/2013 21:57

I intend to put my son in a cotbed that converts into a junior bed so I don't have to worry about him wandering around the place when I have a newborn. I guess I'll switch him to a bed style when he starts clambering over the sides?

I don't think I had a non-second hand bed myself until I was 30, so that one wouldn't trouble me. However, I need people to buy stuff new so I can buy it from them cheap later :)

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