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Snuggle sack or ready bed?

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BosworthBear · 06/01/2006 14:25

DD 4.5 and DS 2.5.travel cot now outgrown and I need something for when we visit relatives. Has anyone got either and what do you think to them - also the price seems to vary a great deal, does the quality or do I just need to shop around??? ( All this is prompted by a weekend visit to friends who are short on beds and are putting a mattress down for DS - I don't want to be a pain when we vist!!)

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PrettyCandles · 06/01/2006 14:30

We've got a readybed for ds and he's fine in it, except that we have to wedge it into a corner as he seems to spill out of it in his sleep. Doesn't seem to bother him though. Possibly he spills out because he has a high-sleeper at home and is used to be hemmed-in by the safety bars. It's easy to use and transport, but a real pain to inflate, as the opening is large but the valve is pathetic, so air gushes out when you disengage the pump. Don't know if all readybeds are like this.

Dd is 3, and big, but she still fits fine in her travel cot.

PrettyCandles · 06/01/2006 14:31

BTW, what is a snuggle sack?

Fimbo · 06/01/2006 14:31

I got my ds A Thomas The Tank Readybed from Boots it was reduced to £14.99. I bought mine instore, they still had some Noddy ones last week. My dd had a snuggle sac but there would be no padding if you put it on the floor.

Fimbo · 06/01/2006 14:33

SnuggleSac

RachD · 06/01/2006 14:37

God, these are both brilliant - I didn't know that either existed.
Which one is best ?

Fimbo · 06/01/2006 14:40

Well there is not much padding in a snuggle sac - it is just like a fleecy sleeping bag - good though if you are going to put your lo on a campbed or blow up bed etc. The readybed comes with a blow up bed and a pump, you just put the cover over the blow up part.

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BosworthBear · 06/01/2006 14:43

It isn't that DS has physically outgrown the travel cot more that he doesn't settle in it anymore and will climb out and lie next to it....

Has anyone seen the Thomas one in Boots this week?

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PrettyCandles · 06/01/2006 14:44

Looks like a glorified fleece sleeping bag. Personally I wouldn't get one. If I was going to get a sleeping bag I'd get a proper one with wadding and lining.

Children don't need as much padding as we do, and may be perfectly happy to in a sleeping bag on a folded blanket on a carpeted floor. I remember sleeping-over like that many times.

With the readybed, unless you want to launder the cover, you don't even need to take it off. You just roll the airbed up with the cover on it, and inflate the same way.

jmb1964 · 07/01/2006 00:09

For a while we used the 'mattress' from inside the travel cot with child in an ordinary sleeping bag on top of that. Our 4 will all sleep quite happily in a sleeping bag on a carpeted floor, but we also use roll-up camping mats for them - not the inflatable sort, just thin yellow squidgy stuff which insulates a bit. There's no need for all this STUFF!

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