Creating a huge family bed - would this work safetly?

[Whirliwig72]

We have co-slept with our 5 month old since birth but are finding things less comfortable as he has got bigger and more wriggly. We have a kingsize bed but we are increasingly feeling cramped. Our budget can't really stretch to a super king at the moment so I was wondering if a good interim solution would be to buy a cheap single at the same height as our king size bed and strap it on the side to create an uber bed? ;)

My prime concern would be that the two beds were absolutely fixed together so that was no danger of baby getting trapped between them but otherwise this could work couldn't it? We could even rotate the beds so the single bed was at our feet rather than to the side (hope this makes sense) to minimise possibility of baby going between them. Any blinding flaw to this plan that I've missed?

How can 1 kingsize bed not be big enough for 2 adults and 1 child?

We are both very tall and all wriggles :) !

Wrigglers I mean!

Can't see why not. Mattress topper over the gap?

Thanks grumpia - off to John Lewis.com to buy a cheap single

I can't see why it won't work. You could pad out the bit where the two mattresses meet to make sure the gap doesn't widen while you're all wriggling in your sleep. The only problem I would think of is you won't get any fitted sheets big enough to fit over both mattresses, but you could easily make one. Equally you won't find a mattress topper big enough to cover both matresses, or a duvet big enough to cover the whole tihng.

I would be worried about how my bedroom would look during the day if I couldn't get a cover big enough to cover the whole thing, I would probably make some huge quilt just to be able to cover the whole uber bed! But I am fussy with how my house looks and was lucky in that the whole time I co-clept with DS until he was 4 I was single, so plenty of room in my kingsize for the both of us

Niiiiice! With 2, we had 2 king mattresses on the floor- Basically, a whole bedroom was all bed, and it was brilliant. Even co-sleeping haters saw it and thought it was the cosiest thing in the world!

Not a co-sleeper, but to mitigate the sliding apart thing (don't see how the single at the foot would give you anymore space where you actually need it), I would swop the mattresses, so you haveking bed with single mattress on it, then strap single bed to side, and add king mattress to cover the remainder of the king bed plus the single bed, so there is no actual pressure for the whole lot to slide apart IYSWIM. Then velcro the two mattresses together too.

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Oooh, I want a giant bed now, sounds great!

I want one too!

Thanks for all the lovely comments and ideas! :)