There was a time when I might never suggest buying a foam mattress; but I have changed my view of them. I now accept that they definitely have a place in our houses.
Moving a child out of a cot is a big step. There isn't any fixed time at which to do that, and each kid and family find a time that will work for them. But together with this comes the decision of what bed to put them in next. The two basic choices are a single bed, or a toddler bed.
The single bed option
If you're purchasing a childrens bed, but the dimensions of an adult one, you must make it simple. I would definitely counsel avoiding anything which looks similar to a childs bed, as you can ensure that they are going to grow out of the fire engine or princess phase before the bed has reached the end of its serviceable life.
The toddler bed
For some youngsters these truly work, they are close to the ground; so not far to fall if they roll out of bed. They're also straightforward to get in and out of if you've got a kid who wants to get up in the night to go to the john.
The Mattress
This makes choosing the bed seem easy. The advertising material is all written to guide you towards the concept of a natural fibre, cool, entirely sprung, pocket sprung and many other specialized mattresses; but is that really what you want? If this is your kids first bed then the probabilities are they're somewhere between eighteen and twenty eight months; there is also an excellent chance they are still in diapers at night. That means that you may still have bed wetting ahead of you.
Some kids are dry at night from very early on and they do not have a tendency to have night time accidents, but other are not, and you cannot know which you have till you start potty training. I'd always endorse a plastic sheet on top of the mattress, an under sheet, then a bed mat and then your top sheet. This will appear a lot , however it works. I actually think that the throwaway bed mats are a great idea. Some children won't wake up when they wet the bed, and depending on how regularly you check the children they may be lying in wee-wee, so a throw-away bed mat is a good way to lower the risk of skin rashes. It also implies that if you have got to do a night time change you can just take away the top sheet and the bet mat and the kid can sleep the rest of the night on the under sheet and you may know that there is still a mattress protector under that. This may be perfectly sufficient until the morning when you can air the mattress and change everything.
Back to my opening sentence, the foam mattress is great; because when you have all this to stress about you do not want to also need to think about whether your couple of hundred bucks, fully pocket sprung natural fibre mattress is being damaged. With a foam mattress you can simply pop to the local furnishing shop, get another piece cut to size and take it home.
Moving a child out of a cot is a big step. There isn't any fixed time at which to do that, and each kid and family find a time that will work for them. But together with this comes the decision of what bed to put them in next. The two basic choices are a single bed, or a toddler bed.
The single bed option
If you're purchasing a childrens bed, but the dimensions of an adult one, you must make it simple. I would definitely counsel avoiding anything which looks similar to a childs bed, as you can ensure that they are going to grow out of the fire engine or princess phase before the bed has reached the end of its serviceable life.
The toddler bed
For some youngsters these truly work, they are close to the ground; so not far to fall if they roll out of bed. They're also straightforward to get in and out of if you've got a kid who wants to get up in the night to go to the john.
The Mattress
This makes choosing the bed seem easy. The advertising material is all written to guide you towards the concept of a natural fibre, cool, entirely sprung, pocket sprung and many other specialized mattresses; but is that really what you want? If this is your kids first bed then the probabilities are they're somewhere between eighteen and twenty eight months; there is also an excellent chance they are still in diapers at night. That means that you may still have bed wetting ahead of you.
Some kids are dry at night from very early on and they do not have a tendency to have night time accidents, but other are not, and you cannot know which you have till you start potty training. I'd always endorse a plastic sheet on top of the mattress, an under sheet, then a bed mat and then your top sheet. This will appear a lot , however it works. I actually think that the throwaway bed mats are a great idea. Some children won't wake up when they wet the bed, and depending on how regularly you check the children they may be lying in wee-wee, so a throw-away bed mat is a good way to lower the risk of skin rashes. It also implies that if you have got to do a night time change you can just take away the top sheet and the bet mat and the kid can sleep the rest of the night on the under sheet and you may know that there is still a mattress protector under that. This may be perfectly sufficient until the morning when you can air the mattress and change everything.
Back to my opening sentence, the foam mattress is great; because when you have all this to stress about you do not want to also need to think about whether your couple of hundred bucks, fully pocket sprung natural fibre mattress is being damaged. With a foam mattress you can simply pop to the local furnishing shop, get another piece cut to size and take it home.
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