Floor bed for a one year old

[StorminaBcup]

I've co-slept with my one yr old because he didn't have his own room and we couldn't fit a cot in our room. No surprises that he now hates his cot and refuses to go in it.
I've read some different sleep site advise and one suggested a floor bed (like the one pictured).
Has anyone else tried this? Did it work and is there anything I need to be aware of?
Ds2 is just turned 1, isn't yet walking, we have a suitable mattress from a toddler bed and a stair gate on the room.

Will appreciate any advice. Thanks!

I've not done this myself, I just couldn't see how it would work as ds1 moves around such a lot. He also used to wander round his cot faffing about before going to sleep, God knows where he would have ended up if he'd had a floor bed!

I also Co slept, but always used the cot as a playpen when I was upstairs so he never minded going in it. It took a bit of work once I stopped bf to sleep around 12 months, to get him to fall asleep independently in the cot.

We put DS on a single bed mattress on the floor when he climbed out of his cot at 14mo. The room is safe and there's a baby gate on it. We put a pool noodle down each side of the bed under the fitted sheet to reduce the likelihood of rolling out. The first day he roamed about, cried a bit and fell asleep on the floor. Since then he's been fine.

I wouldn't put a mirror like in the attached pic obv!

This is where I've gone wrong - he's never consistently played in his cot and now he just cries the second I go to lower him in it.

He has roamed about for a bit tonight but he eventually crawled back on to the mattress and has gone to sleep with no fussing or crying which is a huge improvement on the previous nights. I usually give up and bring him back in my bed.

Pool noodles are a great idea. I've put pillows down the side of the mattress for now but I'll get some tomorrow. No, I didn't think the mirror was a good idea either.

Thanks for the replies.

We kind of did similar with DS2.

He refused to sleep in his toddler bed, and insisted on sleeping on the floor next to it. So we left the bed there, but put a mattress on the floor next to it, which DS2 then happily slept on.

He decided to start sleeping in the bed when he was a little over 3 yrs old.

Obviously you want to be checking the room is generally child safe, and that hard toys aren't left next to the mattress in case he rolls on them in his sleep, but those are things you'd be thinking about if he was in a toddler bed anyway.

The only other point is to be careful to watch your step when checking on your DC at night. Easier for them to roll around on the floor in their sleep (e.g. into the path from the door to the bed) if they're starting on the floor.

Definitely don't give up and take him into your bed now... this is a perfect restart opportunity!
The other thing that I think works for us is that his bedroom is really boring only for sleeping. It's practically empty, just pics on the walls.

We did this. Single mattress. Long bedguars down the wall size, short one at the head end of the room side. Stair gate on door and room very very carefully childproofed (think of cables, things that could fall, toys that could be strangulation/choking hazards if unsupervised. It is colder down near the floor so that's a consideration, and noise travels more including you walking around on the same floor of the house. It also used to give me the heebie jeebies (sp?) about spiders when I was lying with her but that's probably just me

On the getting used to the cot thing - I've read a great technique where you spend dedicated play time in the cot a few times a day. Totally unrelated to sleep. So put them in and play with them (fun/music/toys/lights) with your full attention for 15/20 mins and then take them out while they're still happy. Repeat lots until they view the cot as a fun place. Then gradually start doing this fun as a bedtime wind down, in the cot, then take them out and to bed. Eventually you can just leave them in there to sleep

I've charged the night light and the monitor so there's no cables in there, the room is baby safe (I think, just baby toys although there is a chair...). It did feel a bit cool as it's the room is on an extension so I'll put an extra blanket under the mattress protector tomorrow.

Interesting about the toys, I did that with ds1 but apparently you should make the bedroom / cot a fun place to be. He's got his favourite comforter, slumber buddy (light projector thing that plays music that messes with), and some toys in a basket that we play with in the day.

I've taken the cot out of the room now (not enough space for both and ds1 was in a toddler bed by 18months) so I think I'll just leave it if it works and introduce the toddler bed frame later in the year.

I'll probably jinx myself but I haven't heard a peep...

Thanks for all of the replies! Good to know it's worked for a few of you too.