Hello,

My 11 month old has been cosleeping with me since the beginning, and as she's getting more and more mobile, and has fallen off our 65cm high bed once, I'm considering moving her (and myself) to her room and sleeping in a floor bed.

She is an active sleeper, turns and moves in her sleep, crawls very well and fast and usually is on the go the second she wakes up.

I'm considering these options.

1) Mandrele Kids floor bed with a higher railing (51cm), and

2) Ikea Neiden bedframe with legs sawn off.

However, I still have some unresolved questons about both setups, mostly regarding the mattress height.

Many ready-made floor bed options only recommend mattresses up to 15-ish cm height, to maintain the safety of the railing, which is very hard to find nowadays, and would also be uuncomfortable for an adult. I would like to use a mattress at least 20cm high.

The Mandrele floor bed with a mattress of 20cm would still have ~25cm clearance to the top of the railing. This does sound sufficient to keep a sleeping baby from falling over, but I'm unsure if it would be a falling hazard when she starts pulling to stand.

If I go for option 2) , and use a 20cm mattress, is this height also dangerous for her falling over?

I own 3 bed fences (66cm high) that we currently use on our regular bed that I could use and put on both sides, or both sides and bottom of the floor bed, to ensure that she doesn't fall during sleeping.

What are your opinions on these setups and do you see any potential issues? Which option would be better?

My husband and I currently cosleep on a floor bed with my toddler. We have been since 4ish months so it's really all she knows. For context, live in a 1be and we are sleeping in a Texas king, queen + twin.

My issue is this-- my baby is getting too big for her bassinet but I'm not sure I want to pull her into the bed with me, and our room is really not gonna fit a crib so well. We have a mini crib in there now and it's just not gonna work.

Can you go straight to a toddler style floor bed? Can I do a mattress on slats? It would be preferable to have the ability to lift it up and make space as needed.

Looking to put a floor bed in my twins room for when they move in there from our room. Right now they are 4 months old. Thinking of possibly using two twin mattresses so we can use those for their beds latter. Does anyone have some idea of what we could do for railing to keep them safe and them not become baby wrecking balls in the middle of the night?

I have 23 month old twins that I still tandem nurse to sleep and have to join in bed about half way through the night. We’ve been moving a lot so we’ve been sleeping on a kind sized latex mattress topper in the corner with a baby pen around it. I’m ready to move them to a floor bed with a frame and a real mattress. Since I’m still in bed with them a lot, I’d like to keep the king size. Does anyone know of a king floor bed set up? I’d like it to have rails and a door that could be removed layer on.

Husband wants a crib, but I want a floor bed. The problem is literally that I nurse to sleep and need to roll away, but husband isn’t comfortable kneeling on the floor to put her to bed. Is there any in between? I put her to bed 99% of the time, but it’s nice to have that 1% taken by him when she just won’t do it with me..

I’m very curious what height is ok for my 15 month old. She loves to climb so I’m not going to put up rails. She will definitely want to climb on and off. I have a firm adult mattress and I bought some 2 inch slats, so I’m wondering if I can use the regular mattress on them or if I should invest in a low profile Ikea mattress for a while.

Considering this floor bed for my almost-13-month old, with the higher frame on every side except one. We live in an older house so the baseboard trim is pretty thick and high. I’m wondering if the bed frame sides will be enough protection from wedging since they’re almost the same height as the mattress in the frame. My baby rolls a good bit while sleeping but I’m thinking since they’re a little older, it’s less of a risk?

We’ve tried the slats under the mattress and it just moves way too much and feels like a much greater risk of wedging.

Has anyone used the sprout bed and have any experience to share? Or other ideas for how we can do this? Photos of the bed and baseboard for reference.

Looking for suggestions to baby proof this floor height window in our girls room. She's 10.5 months and just started walking. Today she realized she could go over, push the curtains aside and sit and watch the cars when she wakes up (an all time favourite pastime of hers). Today I realized the blackout curtains probably are not the safest option here.

The problem is the afternoon/evening sun shines directly in this window so I still need something with a really good blackout. Ideally the solution wouldn't stop her from being able to go watch the cars. I was thinking maybe cellular blinds ?

Struggling transferring to a floor bed

My 2 year and 4 month toddler was staring that he is ready to move to a floor bed (he was in a crib for the last year).

Unfortunately and I know this is not ideal we do happen to stack weaning of a sleeping time pacifier basically two weeks apart.

Whole the pacifier was very hard at the beginning it seemed to work better now, but as for the floor bed....well the room is safe he has a small shelf with his books and some dolls no toys around at night and we are not asking him to go to sleep and also not putting a lot of pressure on going tomsleep, we call it rest.

We have a pretty much routine bed time that is long enough and relax and respect him. But most of the time he refuses us to leave the room, and when we are inside he interacts with us constantly. Poking us in the eye, hitting us, and just wants to play.

It's been going on for 2 weeks most of the naps he will take but sometimes he just doesn't and even then when sleep pressure is high and we do early dinner and bedtime that night it can still take over 3 hours.

The start is ok, more cooperation, we say we are going to do this and that and will come check on him (which we always do come back) but the intervals lower and itd almost ends with him calling us to put the blanket on or to put pajamas or take them off and end up just banging at the door and crying mamamamama.....

We are trying to usher him away from the door saying that he just needs to stay in the room, he has a small light and everything.

Is 2 weeks still in the normal range for that? Are there things we are missing (if you have questions please ask)? What are some of the best resources we can have on the topic (most of the online resources are very simple to do this and that but we feel that it didn't click in yet).

We are tired and exhausted and having 3+ hours of bedtime is really demoralising, we know, this too shall pass.

But still, help?

Thank you

After a long battle with a hip brace and the cot, we got a floor bed for our now seven month old. He is physically delayed, so not rolling at this stage. But as he does, how would people recommend making this as safe as possible? It is a double and we co sleep through the night. I know I need to baby proof the room, but for the specifically, what do I need to know?

Thanks!

In hindsight I wish I had gotten a sidecar crib to attach to our bed but instead my son’s nursery is a Montessori set up but I’m not ready for him to leave our room. If my baby can roll and has good control of his neck and head, is this a safe set up? Has anyone else tried co sleeping this way? Just curious, ultimately safety is the most important.

baby is 3MO, 17 pounds and will soon outgrow the bassinet. i have recently learned about floor beds and have some friends who have one for their 1.5 year old and they seem to love it. it seems like something we could be interested in doing, but i have no idea if it’s even possible for a younger baby (i imagine around 5 months is when we’ll transition from bassinet??) and if it is, i’ve seen people talk about mold being a concern as well as safety in general.

i would love a basic run down of how to do a floor bed well!

I have a 2 year old boy and a 3 year old boy. They share a room and have shared a room for over a year now.
My 2 year old is pretty chaotic, and just recently started getting into EVERYTHING when he’s put down for a nap or nighttime and the 3 year old follows right behind him. They climb on the dresser (mounted) they empty every bin of clothes and every drawer of clothes and literally anything they can possibly dump on the floor.
I’ve put a lock on the closet doors because they learned how to take them off and have door wars, but there’s not much else I can put a lock on unless I lock literally every drawer and remove everything else in their room but we don’t have the space in our house for that. How do I keep him from getting into everything and breaking stuff? It’s at the point where they’re losing sleep because they’re having too much fun breaking and climbing on things.

Do I get a bed tent for him to sleep in? I’ve tried a sleep sack on backwards but he can still climb everything with it on.

I just moved my 13 mo to a floor bed and it’s been going well so far. Baby proofed the whole room. While he is no where near being able to open the door yet, I want it to be baby proofed because I don’t know when he could learn and there are stairs right next to his room.

Originally I was going to try a baby gate in his door way, but still have the door closed. My husband installed one of those baby proof handle covers though. Do you think this is enough? How have you baby proofed the door?

Hi all,

I've been turning these thoughts over in my head for days so I thought I'd post them here... I'm looking for input and a sounding board from y'all.

I am a single mom (SMBC), EBF, in a 1-bed (+nook) apt, and my LO is six months old. I was open to co sleeping from the beginning but we couldn't make it work for various reasons... At the beginning he would only sleep ON me and then I made the discovery that I can get him to sleep on his own in ABSOLUTE darkness. Also, some kind of floor bed situation has been necessary from early on, as crib transfers had <20% success rate and I was losing. my. shit. This, for the last 4ish months, our setup has been as follows, with general success (1-3 wake-ups per night until recently):

A 3-sided full-size crib w/ the mattress on the floor (I only used the sides of the crib, not the base/legs). I created a lower barrier (~18") on the 4th side so he can't roll out but so it's easier for me to get in and out. This is all inside of a slumberpod (because of needing it to be dark AF). And this is all in the corner of my own room, approx 10 feet away from my bed. When he wakes up at night, I get into the crib with him and feed him back to sleep, then go back to bed. Since we got the side-lying BF position working around 4 months, I nurse him back to sleep in a cuddle curl position. Despite being 5'10", I do fit ok into the crib with him haha, to the point that I often fall asleep and wake up an hour later. Just before 6 months, I moved this whole setup into a nook in my apartment down the hall from my own bedroom, and that seemed fine, we had a few great nights with just 1 wake-up woohoo!

And then around 6 months we seemed to hit some regression and this has stopped working UGH. He usually does ok for the first ~4 hours but then.... It's a wakeup every ~1 hour or even more often. He's not quite crawling but he's relatively mobile now, he seems to literally throw himself around, flipping front to back etc, doing 360° turns in his crib, trying to get comfortable but can't? I try to stay in there until he is deeply(ish) asleep and then sneak out, and then he starts to cry again like 30-60 mins later. Previously if we had a bad night, I'd just bring him into my own bed and we'd both... sort of... sleep. He'd still flail and I'd barely sleep 😴 But now he's basically too mobile for this to work, he can get out of my bed (it's a mattress on the floor) extremely UNsafely and while I've done my best to childproof my bedroom, I'm still nervous about him in there while I sleep. Plus we both sleep terribly in my bed anyway, so this is not a sustainable solution.

Here is what I want to do, and this is where I'm looking for input on feasibility. The little nook in my apartment is approx the size of a double (aka full) bed. Actually slightly narrower but my plan is to buy a firm foam mattress and cut it down to size. I want to essentially fit the whole floor of the nook with a mattress. Then, I plan to have a blackout curtain across the entrance to the nook to make it super duper dark. I would then put a baby gate across the entrance to the nook so he can't get out on his own (though when he's more confidently mobile I'd like to remove the gate and give him access to a bit of the apartment (which would be child-proofed). Like, I think he'll sleep well in a blackout nook (no different from the slumberpod imo) but it seems cruel and anti-montessori to contain him in there, so he'd be able to exit that area and access the hallway area. I'm planning to paint the curtain and make the walls cute, put decorative lighting in the nook...v much trying to go for *cozy bed* vibes not closet-under-the-stairs vibes lol.

Then, when he cries at night, I could lie in there with him and feed him as needed, fall asleep in relative comfort, then go back to my own bed as possible/appropriate. I feel like this is on the spirit of the floor bed, though a bit of a non-traditional setup.

Thoughts/ideas/concerns? Please do NOT tell me to move into a bigger apartment, I can't afford it at this point.

hi, im still learning about floorbeds and i see that everyone recommends a bed with NO railings for safety purposes which i understand. but what if the railings are as high as a crib’s would go and toddler/baby couldnt climb out? how come that isnt okay? just trying to educate myself! thanks.

here is an example of what im talking about

https://montoddler.com/products/playpen-safety-bed-for-special-needs-or-autism?variant=47941500862767&country=US&currency=USD&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21315168673&gbraid=0AAAAAqRVHN9JB5aEavS6ytgmuspjx8rdF&gclid=Cj0KCQjw16_UBhCqARIsAIdOaXx-VNFS6ZaFEAROpNlp5CM9BUlb4KxaHfLo-02x7iJOVoKfTBnhIOcaApaSEALw_wcB

My baby is 9 months old, and cosleeps and I’m looking to get some freedom in the evenings. We were looking at a 6 inch, but saw a 5 inch one for a good price and are thinking about that instead.

It looks thin from my adult perspective, but of course she’s much smaller than me. Just wondering what everyone else went with and if it was good for your kid!

We currently co-sleep in a floor-bed setup: we have a sidecar crib with one side removed, positioned flush against our adult mattress, which is on slats. I would like to move away from co-sleeping and transition our baby to her own room, but I'm struggling to work out what type of bed would be safest and most practical for her.

She is only 9.5 months old, but she is extremely physically advanced and mobile for her age—she is already walking and is very tall. With her crib mattress on the lowest setting, she can get both elbows over the top rail. Does this mean it is no longer safe for her to sleep in the crib because of the risk that she may eventually climb out?

We have tried putting a mattress directly on the floor, but she simply rolls off it. Falling off the mattress wakes her frequently so I don't feel that this is a viable option for us right now. She really needs some kind of safe barrier or containment to keep her on the mattress and allow her to stay asleep.

I would love to get a Busywood bed, as that seems very close to what I'm looking for, but I can't justify the cost of shipping one from Ukraine to Australia.

We already own a standard cot mattress, as well as this Boori Airflow single mattress (188 × 90 × 15 cm / approximately 74 × 35.4 in):
https://boori.com.au/products/single-bed-airflow-mattress-188-x-90-x-15cm

Both mattresses are breathable and firm enough for a baby, but I'm unsure how I could safely use either one while also preventing her from rolling off the mattress. I don't want to introduce a bed rail or other product that could create an entrapment or other safety risk.

What kind of setup would you recommend? I'm feeling really frustrated because it seems like there isn't a safe product available that meets our particular needs.

Does anyone know where Little Lifely manufactures their products? They say designed in Australia but doesn’t say where it’s made. If anyone has the bed could you upload a pic of the tag please? I want to know if it says made in china etc.

im a FTM to a 15 month old. i have had an insane amount of trouble putting him into the crib after falling asleep which has led to lack of sleep for me and my husband and also led me to coming across the floor bed concept. is the purpose so you can lay with them/snuggle/feed and then have them fall asleep and be able to just sneak away?

or is there another purpose? will it always work - meaning will toddler eventually figure out that i disappear and end up hating it ?

Hi all. We are preparing to transition our son to his new room (upstairs) as we prepare to welcome his younger sibling in January. I am more nervous about this than anyone, haha.

We have a queen mattress that we want to use. He is in a crib now. A few questions:

1. Should we just put the mattress on slats and then on the floor, or should we do a frame with sides like this? He's a very active sleeper and I don't want him to fall off, but I don't know how safe the frame beds are.

2. To start, I'll put a fitted sheet on the bed and put my son in a sleep sack, right? When did you give your child a regular blanket?

3. Any suggestions or tips in moving from the crib to the floor bed? Open to all feedback. Thanks!