Cot... Cheap or expensive?

Gataloca

Gataloca

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I am just in week 15, so I haven't started buying anything. But I have been looking around.

For sure I'll need a cot, but I was just wondering if one should get a good (and probably expensive) one, or if a cheap and regular one would be just fine. At the end, what matter is the mattress, right? And probably the baby will be sleeping there for just.... 2 years?

I just saw one from IKEA, which seems to have a reasonable price (IKEA page 244)... It is not so pretty, but for sure the baby would not mind. We are short of space here in Hong Kong, so there will not be a cute and pretty baby room anyway.

Is there anything else that I should really look at when buying a cot, in addition to the price, and how pretty it is?
 
It depends how long u want to use your cot and how much space u have ? We bought a big one which converts into a single bed and we can use it for a longer period and then we can use it as sofa.
 
agree with Aussie Mum, I bought a second hand cot but got a very good quality and expensive mattress. It will be only used for 2 years and as we don't plan on having anymore kids I didn't want to spend alot of money on it. I would rather spend money on the next bed as it will be used alot longer.
 
I looked around at cots, saw a vast range and I felt that the price really didn't match the quality! I thought that the Chicco ones were way overprices but still very unstable. I ended up getting a 0/3 baby brand one from Apita in Tai koo which was on the cheap side - but it is very sturdy and functional. A mattress came with it, and it's good enough - I don't really think that at their weight it makes much difference anyway. I would definitely get a GOOD quality mattress once they're in a regular bed though. And there's no reason why it shouldn't last them until they leave home that way (unless my kids want to stick around until they're 30+!!)
 
I was thinking the same, but just wanted some reassurances from experienced moms. Thanks for everybody replies!
 
O/3 cot is good. not necessarily must have expensive mattress, the one from seahorse, tailore made for baby cot is good enough.
also, if you intend to sort of like 'attach' the cot to your bed,you may wanna consider a cot where you can safely dismantle one side and have the bed open side of the bed 'facing' your bed.
you can do this with one of the O/3 cot.
 
i was more concerned with the cot itself...
i got 2 second hand cots. paid VERY little for them($200-500) and they lasted for about 16 months each. the first cot i got though was terrible. you needed two hands to lower the side, which meant that if i was by myself carrying a sleeping baby, it was darn-near impossible to put the baby down without "dropping" him the last inch or two.

i liked the second cot that i could lower using my knee and one hand. easily doable while carrying a small baby. also, i liked it because the actual bottom of the cot could change position as well. so, when the baby was very little and totally immobile, you could have the bottom of the cot higher and you don't have to bend way over to put baby in it. as the baby then progressed, you could lower the bottom of the cot a little at a time.
 
A cot-bed can be a good investment, we got a second hand one very cheaply. That way you can transition to a bed easily.

It is not recommended to use second-hand mattresses, unless from a sibling.

For us a high quality mattress was a must - you can get anti-allergy mattresses with special air flow, or go for organic cotton and/or natural latex.
 
For me, I was not comfortable with the idea of using a second hand cot or especially mattress. The baby will sleep on it for 10-18 hrs a day for at least 2 years, which is quite a lot.
You never know what the cot has been through, how it was cared for. And with all the accidents and recalls these days with brand new cots, I really wanted to get a decent one. Not crazy expensive, but reputable, particularly the mattress.
I also thought at the beginning that I didn`t care much about what it looked like, and so on, but after my son was born, things changed.
He slept in a baby hammock for the first 6 months. Then we ended up buying an 0/3 small sized (hk sized) cot including a mattress. I still love looking at my son sleeping in it, and I think it`s good quality and the spring mattress is good too.
 
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