Which toddler floor bed should I buy?

[Mumontherunn]

I want a floor bed for my 2.5 year old
but these seem hard to find in the UK and expensive. Several hundred pounds?! Which ones do you have and recommend? I don’t know where to start and so keep putting it off!

We just put a toddler mattress on the actual floor. Free!

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Is a floorbed an improvement on just putting a mattress on the floor?

We have a just turned one year old who has developed a fear of her cot but we don't trust to climb out past bed guards in our bed in an evening or morning when we're not in bed, so don't want to continue co-sleeping forever. We're tempted to saw up the cot and create a barrier/gate around a single mattress (so I can occasionally squeeze in) on the floor. I don't want to spend money on something that shouldn't need to last too long. Obviously I don't know your reasons so it may be right for you to get a proper one. There were quite a few on Etsy I noticed.

We just put a double mattress on these slats from Ikea to allow air flow and prevent the mattress from going mouldy and it’s worked great.

www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/loenset-slatted-bed-base-20278718/

Buy a normal single bed. Buy fitted bottom sheets. Buy a pool noodle (or two if the bed will be placed with neither long side near a wall). Place pool noodles down the sides of the bed and put fitted sheet over the top. Teach your child to climb out and in over the pool noodle, which will prevent them rolling out. My child is huge and had to move out of a cot early as he was so long, never fell out of bed.

I would never think it was good for a child to fall out of bed, but my toddlers first bed (from ikea) is barely twelve inches off the ground, is it so terrible if one day they fall out? It hasn't happened so far and I've got the minnen bed I think it's called, so it's hard to fall out of I guess

When I took the side off DDs cot bed, I put a spare mattress on the floor next to the bed in case she rolled off. She did but it didn't wake her and she just carried on sleeping.

My DS just moves around so much I thought a floor bed would be safer. It’s also what they have at nursery. But yes agree maybe just a mattress would be a good one to start with while I save. Also looking at other toddler beds with sides but honestly don’t know where to start. Thanks for the advice all food for thought

This bed made our crib-to-bed switch SO easy 🥹
Luca Montessori Floor Bed with Rails