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Mattresses - are these any different? PLEASE HELP!!

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lunavix · 22/08/2006 20:58

I've been given a moses basket, which my friend has had in her loft for 3 years. It has a vinyl mothercare mattress but I'm feeling paranoid about it - can't really afford shiny new mothercare mattresses so was looking at these on ebay - this one or this one. Can anyone see a difference between them? Or a reason not to use either?

Dh is adamant our crib mattress will be fine for this baby, we used it for 6 months with ds but it's been in our garage for 2 years, and we didn't even wrap it up. It looks fine (it's thick vinyl like the moses baskets so you can't really tell) but again I'm worrying.

Ds's cot mattress is now in the garage (been in there about 3 weeks) - we've wrapped it in bubble wrap. Will I end up needing to bin it? Might prove a problem as his cot is a bizarre size....

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lunavix · 22/08/2006 21:02

oh dear I've just looked on the sids webpage and it says not to use ventilated mattresses! Argh.

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NAB3 · 22/08/2006 21:05

I wouldn't use a mattress that was left in a garage but that is me. I bought new for all my children. They were £30 each from MOthercare and were used in the pram only for 3-4 months before they went in the cot. Advice is to get a new mattress for each baby and I definitely wouldn't use one from another child that isn't family. I just wouldn't use the crib mattress that was in the garage. It may be an expense but god forbid your baby suffer cot death, would you be glad you saved money then?

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lunavix · 22/08/2006 21:27

Is there anything I can do about ds's cot mattress or will I just have to buy a new cot???

We can't store it in the loft..

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shazronnie · 22/08/2006 21:31

You should always have a new mattress for the cot, as the weight of a toddler will have squashed the old one and made potentially dangerous dents etc. which a little baby could get trapped in.

moses baskets mattress should be ok, as they do not have the stress of a heavy child on them. I reused the crib mattress for DS2, but bought him a new cot mattress.

hairymclary · 22/08/2006 21:36

lunavix I think both of those look fine tbh. I thought you were supposed to have ventilated ones??? they keep changing it. I used a ventilated one for ds and it was fine. I think as long as it's new it'll be ok.

as for the cot mattress, can you slide it under your bed? or just prop it up against a wall indoors somewehre? behind the sofa maybe?

I thought advice was that mattresses that have been used by your own previous child are fine, but it isn't recomended to use 2nd hand ones?

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lunavix · 22/08/2006 21:43

I just looked on the sids website and it says that you shouldn't use ventilated mattresses as you can't clean the foam and the holes are somewhere for trapped dust dirt etc to settle.

I think I'll get a new crib and moses basket mattress. MIL has a moses basket too but hers has been kept in a wardrobe so I'm sure that will be fine.

We'll pull in ds's cot mattress and find somewhere indoors to store it, it's only been out a few weeks. But it will be a struggle replacing it as like I said it's an odd size.

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