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Has anyone done a floor bed from day one?

KittyKatMomKittyKatMom member
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I am PG with baby #2 and I think we are going to skip the crib altogether this time around. If DS's crib wasn't convertible, it would have been a complete waste of money. I bedshared with him full-time for the first three months, and part-time after that (more often than not). He nursed to sleep and it was so much easier to lay down with him in a bed, than rock him and put him down in a crib. Plus, he is an active sleeper and would always bump into the crib rails and wake himself up shortly after going down. I can count on one hand the number of times he STTN in his crib and he has been sleeping tremendously better since we moved him to a full-size bed at 20 months.

With this baby, I want to put a full-size mattress on the floor of the nursery for bedsharing and set up our Arm's Reach Co-Sleeper as a bassinet for when I want baby to be contained. (DH needs uninterrupted sleep because he works long hours and has a long commute, so I bedshare on my own.)

Anyone do this? I feel weird not having a crib, but when DS was an older infant, I was wishing I had never bothered with a crib and just had a mattress on the floor for him.

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Re: Has anyone done a floor bed from day one?

  • daenikoffredaenikoffre member

    We had a crib set up for DS, but never used it. He bedshares with us. We took apart the crib a few months ago put the crib mattress on the floor for when he takes naps, and for the first part of the night. 

    For LO#2 we plan to just do a full size floor bed and bedshare in the same manner we do with DS. We just assume we'll have a bigger bed by then. My shoulder doesn't like bedsharing as much as I do. Stick out tongue 

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  • barnwifebarnwife member
    We also had a crib set up, but haven't used it. We bedshared from the beginning. We put our mattress on the floor once J. started moving more. And we have a full-size mattress on the floor in his room.

    He sleeps mostly in his room now. I lay with him until he is asleep and then slip out. When he wakes up it's usually DH who goes in to him. Sometimes DH falls asleep in there, sometimes he makes it back to our bed.

    It's working for us for now.

    I am sure we will bedshare with this LO as well.
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  • pixieprincsspixieprincss member
    I think it is a great idea if the mattress is firm enough to be NB-safe. We use LO's crib as a sidecar on our bed, but when he sleeps in his own room he is on a floor bed (AKA twin mattress). For us, that didn't start until 9 months when he was crawling and we worried about him falling out of our bed during naps. Had he been a roller or mobile earlier, I would've felt just fine doing that setup even earlier. The infant floor bed is a Montessori thing, so I'm sure that plenty of other parents have done it, too.  We will not be getting a crib for LO2.

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