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4 month old co-sleeping in a hotel - how to do safely?

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EatsFartsAndLeaves · 17/09/2015 23:56

DS is 4 months old. We need to live in a hotel while major work is done on our house. Landlord will pay for Travelodge/Premier Inn type hotel, but I'm stressing, possibly quite unreasonably, about the practicalities of this because I've hardly ever stayed in a hotel before and never with a baby.

Baby is still waking every couple of hours in the night to feed and we've been using a bedside cot/co-sleeping so I can just pull him over to me, feed him back to sleep and them put him back without getting up. Can I do that in a hotel? Will they have bedside cots? Will the mattresses be too soft for safe co-sleeping? Will we have to buy a new mattress to fit the hotel cot? SIDS advice is not to use a used mattress.

Don't know how long we'll be there, but it could be several weeks and we don't have a car to be able to take our own cot. Or baby bath.

Also at the moment we do at least one load of laundry per day, because for example I only have two wearable feeding bras. How does laundry work in hotels - do you have to pay extra for it, and if so how much does it cost and how fast do you get your stuff back? Will they wash stuff in non-bio at 60 degrees if requested?

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lullaby23 · 18/09/2015 02:22

When I stayed in a Premier Inn I booked a family room and was given a king size bed, travel cot and single bed all in the room. I put DS in the sleepyhead on the single bed. Or if you have a sleepyhead you could put it between you and partner in the big bed (away from duvet etc)? Sorry this all very pro sleepyhead but I have found it great for travel as relatively easy to transport and familiar for DS!

For laundry you're probably better off going to a laundrette I would think, don't imagine "budget" hotels would have a laundry service and at least you can control the temp, detergent etc.

StrawberryLeaf · 18/09/2015 02:30

We use the bednest and if I was in your situation I would definitely be looking at how I could get it to the hotel. Could you afford a taxi to transport your cot?

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