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To cut a long story short, we were going to go with the floor bed at the 6mo ish mark but got talked out of it.
I’m now thinking, basic slats on the floor with a firm mattress - preferably large enough to continue to co sleep/bedshare. At the moment I’m bedsharing in my bed which is a king size and the size suits as I’m quite a large lady 😅 but he’s now pretty mobile so wants to yeet himself off the bed constantly - hence the floor bed!! The cot is a no-go as he despises it!

Was thinking the ikea set up I’ve seen mentioned a few times in this sub. Do people have any other recommendations for simple set up? King size if possible!! I’m in the UK so some limit to my options there too.
We looked at the Roomix and treetales and they are an absolute fortune, so keen to see what others have done instead of these :)

Looking for some advice? Maybe a musing out loud?

Some background: My LO has just turned 8 months, I was adamant from the beginning I would never bed share. Oh ho ho what a fool. We have been bedsharing since about 5ish months because one day he just decided that the bedside cot was some sort of hell dimension and he wanted nothing to do with it.
I thought maybe transitioning to his own room would help. I spent ages researching floor beds and how to go about this, but my sister in law is a childcare professional (owns a nursery etc) and advised against it and my husband tends to take her word above most. So we got a (not cheap!!) cot. Well, he hates that too…
Considered sleep training but that seems to be a lot of variations on letting them cry… honestly I don’t think I have the energy and patience to sleep train. I do the nights alone as my husband works shifts.

The issues: We are still bedsharing and I have got a bed rail (one of those mesh ones that sits flush to the mattress) after a few rolling out incidents!
But now it’s becoming impossible to

1. Stay overnight anywhere else
2. He starts nursery soon and also only contact naps…

I’m torn, do I bite the bullet and try and get him in the cot? Or do I try again with looking into a floor bed?!
If floor bed, what do people recommend?? Can they sleep alone in it for a few hours before I get in for the night?

I need some reassurance… I think!
My LO is now 7.5months and our weaning ‘ journey’ has been slow. I want to know how others have gone about it. Success stories, hiccups, anything really!

My mum keeps pushing it, asking constantly what he’s been having, what our ‘food routine’ is, saying baby wakes in the night because he’s hungry…

The problem is (beyond the annoying comments) I have an almost paralysing fear of choking. I honestly don’t know how to get past it. I look up how to serve every kind of food and even if I do it perfectly I start to panic sweat as soon as it even goes near his mouth.

I see other parents just handing their babies food whenever wherever and I’m still making sure he’s in his highchair properly and everything is all prepared like some sort of military check list… just today at baby group one of the other mums just handed her baby, who is ten days younger than mine, one of those corn snack things and just let him get on with it.

Now I’m worried he’s behind and I’ve messed everything up.

FTM in the UK.

LO has just turned 6 months and in the few week has decided that the next to me cot is evil. We have been co sleeping but this isn’t great for me with my lovely PGP left over from pregnancy. We are due to make the transition to his own room, but have a few Q’s about floor beds that I can’t seem to find answers to:

1. Currently feed to sleep. The ideal bed would be one where I could feed him like I do when we co-sleep (side lying BF) and then once he is asleep I can roll away to freedom, so probably would need a bed with no rails?

If the bed is low enough to the ground does this eliminate the need for rails? If bed is not against walls etc. he isn’t crawling fully quite yet.
When we co sleep he never moves from being on his back in the middle of the bed

Can the rails just be the same style as a crib (vertical I assume) but only round 3/4 of the sides?

2. All the frames sold online say they are for 18 months+ so now I’m doubting everything 😂

3. Any recommendations on a good place to get frames/ slats?

4. Other than firm are there any other mattress requirements? I’m quite a big lass so would need a bed bigger than a standard single most likely to facilitate the feeds.

Sorry for the long post but just trying to get it right and only today realised floor beds are a thing 😂

I’ve have only just learnt that these exist!

My LO has just hit six months old and recently decided that being put in his crib is a fate worse than death. For the last week or so I’ve been co sleeping, which I don’t mind but 1. I still get scared I’m not doing it safely enough (I do the safe 7 thing) 2. I wake up with terrible aches and cramps!!

Is it too soon to go with the floor bed? How does it work when baby can roll about and crawl?
Do people start off with settling them and then roll away?

He is also currently fed to sleep :)