Is a futon OK for my nearly 2 year old?

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DS2 (23 months) has been co-sleeping with me and dh for sometime. (Many reasons for this, not least being sleep deprevation and undiagnosed PND for me). He now hates his cot and won't go in it.

Anyway, I want to get him a bed as it's getting rather cramped in mine and dh's bed and I'm still not getting much sleep. His brother moved from a cot to a bed about this age (23 months between ds1 and ds2).

DH suggested using our double futon instead of a single bed. Reasons being:

• it's close to the ground
• it's a double (somewhere for me too!)
• saves rushing to buy a single

I have a few concerns about using a futon, I'm not sure it's the most comfortable thing to sleep on and is it OK for a 2 year old.

Does anyone else use a futon for their child?
Thanks
mj

I DID start mine off on a futon but soon after she developed asthma and wheezing. Even though our futon was not cheap and was brand new, I found out that futon filling is generally straw/paper and very liable to trigger allergies (I have to say I am not an allergy-obsessed type IYKWIM!). Anyway I bought a single mattress from Argos instead and she slept fine on that and all the asthma symptoms disappeared.

So I would recommend NOT using a futon and getting a mattress instead. You could always buy two to make a 'double' and then just shove the spare one under his bed when she gets one.