Mothercare bedside cot - help me out here

[pelafina]

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i have a cossatto one, bought from kiddicare for less than that, could you not keep the mattress and return the cot?

(Also dbl check instructions?)

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agree double check instructions - is it the cot or your bed that's forcing them apart?

we used rolled-up towels wedged in the far side of the cot to shunt the cot mattress flush to ours, but we had cannibalised a normal cot by taking off the side so I neve expected to get a perect fit.

aha, if you have a wooden-framed bed it will only ever get as close as the frame will let it

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give it a bash using the towels - shove the cot mattress as close to yours as it will go to bridge the gap, then pack the resultant space on the far side of the cot? or is the 4" too big for that?

We found exactly the same with our Mothercare cot. I guess you could wedge the castors so it's hard up against your bed, and fill in the gap with towels. I have to say that we abandoned the idea of having it as a bedside cot within a couple of nights, and got a bed rail instead so DS could sleep in bed with us.

If the cot arrived less than 7 days you can return it under the distance-selling regulations without having to give a reason, as long as you still have all the packaging.

less than 7 days ago*

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Hmmm - ours worked different to this. Was from Mothercare but 5 years ago now. The cot side went up and over the cot, so that it went down the side of the other cot side - making a double thickness cotside at ne side and open at the other. This pushed the mattress over right to the very edge of the cot base and made it fit right up against our bed.

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In its defence, we have kept our Mothercare cot and DS sleeps all night in it now -- when we stopped co-sleeping, I found the drop-side useful as I could cuddle him to sleep without breaking my back, then raise the side once he was asleep.

i have a (now unused) one... it fit right up to the bed, but then we were using a divan bed then, so no frame.

is the rolled up towels thing working for you?

We had this problem too, I kept the side down at its halfway point, not off under the cot, while pushed right up to our bed, so it was easy to roll over and lift him over the rail into our bed for a feed, or touch him in the night to check ok. I was disapointed at first that we weren't lying together but then found it meant it was safer if I had to get out of bed for the loo I could just to push the cot away while I got out, without the risk he was sleeping at the edge and would roll out! After a c-section crawling off the bottom of the bed wasn't a great option!

I think we also had his mattress slightly higher than ours, also making it easier to lift him into our bed from a sitting position

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What I did was bridged the gap with a rolled up blanket then put a single fitted sheet over the cot matress then under my fitted sheet so there was no gaps or bits to get stuck in or things lost down. Have to say that ds hardly slept in his bedside cot or carrycot when he was tiny cause I just lay down feeding him and went back to sleep. When he was a bit more roly I ended up putting the side on and dropping it was much easier that faffing with the sheets etc.

A friend of mine used rolled towels etc, then placed a sheepskin over the top....Pelafina we bought the same cot, had same problem, mucked around with rolled blankets/towels, finally gave up on cot and dd moved into the big bed permanently, poor old DP has been on the couch these last 11 months (well at least he gets a decent nights sleep) and the bloody cot is a place to dump stuff! DD will be 1yr soon, then maybe ready to be eased off the nightfeeds and might stay in bedside cot so there is room for DP in the bed again...a girl can dream...

I too used rolled up towels. It is worth doing as you have a bit more room than if you had your baby in bed with you.