The Best Bedside Cot
These cribs are designed to be put by your bed to make it easier for your baby to reach you at 3am for night feeds and nappy changes. These cribs can also be an excellent alternative to a Moses Basket.
Safe sleep tips from The Lullaby Trust and NHS recommends infants sleep in a crib, away from your bed to avoid the danger of suffocation or overheating. This cozy option was a favorite among our mom testers. It glides in a motion that can help bring babies back to sleep.
1. Joie Roomie Glide
The Roomie Glide bedside cot is an innovative product made by English brand Joie. It was designed to let you sleep together without sharing your bed. It has an easy glide that glides smoothly and gently to ease your baby to sleep without you having to leave your bed. A glide lock is also included that locks the glide into place when your child is asleep. There are safety straps to ensure it stays securely attached to your bed, and retractable wheels that allow you to move it as you wish to.
The curved cocoon shape with softly padded sides and double-mesh windows increase the security and comfort of your little sleeper. It’s also simple to assemble and take apart, making it suitable to travel with and pack away. The cot comes with a machine-washable mattress cover that is easy to clean. You can also purchase additional sheets of cotton in a set of two.
Roanna loved this cotbed and said it was “a high quality buy”. She also liked the ease of the glide was soft, which helped her fall to sleep. She also thought the design was stylish and suggested that it would look great in most bedroom decors. She also said that it’s great for infants, but when they reach six months, you’ll require a bigger cot.
She also appreciated that the sliding side panel could be moved down by one hand, which meant she could quickly answer alarms from her bed to feed or soothe her children. The Roomie Glide also has 11 height settings, which means it can be adjusted to fit nearly any bed size. There are straps and clips that help to secure it.
2. BassiNest
The HALO Bassinest Swivel Sleeper comes with a lot going for it, including a side pouch that’s perfect for diapers, nipple cream, and other items you’ll need during the infant stage. It also has a sturdy base and mattress which can be easily cleaned up after spit-ups, blowouts and the other mishaps that happen with infants. Additionally, it includes a machine-washable mattress to keep it clean.
The most appealing feature of this cot bedside is that it can rotate 360 degrees, which means you can get closer to your baby for safe sleep. Its patented side walls lower and automatically return to allow you to take care of your baby without getting up from your bed. This is crucial for mothers who are recovering from C-sections.
The swivel function allows you to sleep while your baby naps in your arms and makes it easier to take them in to cuddle or feed them in bed. It has a nightlight, three soothing sounds that are accompanied by two levels of vibrating and a timer for nursing to help you stay on the right path with your breastfeeding or bottle-feeding routine.
The upgraded version has wood accents for an elegant look and a premium yarn-dyed fabric. It also has a floor light to let you see in the dark without disrupting your baby or your partner, as well as a storage caddy that keeps essentials at your fingertips. Both versions of the HALO Bassinest have a sturdy adjustable base that can be placed on beds that are up to 34″ tall. The side wall can be locked to increase safety. It’s designed to be used until your baby shows signs of rolling over or reaches 20 lbs and is JPMA certified and independently tested to meet U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Health Canada safety standards.
3. Maxi-Cosi lora
With its premium clean design that comes in a range of modern colours and wood effect details this stylish bassinet for bed is a true sleeper. The mesh is breathable, allowing plenty of air to enter and gives you an excellent view of your baby. The mattress is firm enough to allow for both daytime naps and nighttime sleep. Additionally, large bedside cot cots4tots comes with a reflux incline function for relieving reflux and congestion when required. And when you’re ready to move your baby to their own room, it converts to an attractive standalone crib that has a comfy mattress. It can be folded flat and placed in a bag that is convenient for travel so that you can take it on a trip to the weekend or when your baby is at Grandma’s.
Nominated for 2021’s most comfortable Cot Crib, Crib, or Moses Basket at the Mother&Baby Awards, this crib offers optimum comfort for baby during the first few months of. It features a breathable and extra thick mattress that can be adjusted up to five height settings, and a rocking feature for babies who are fussy. It’s also made of EcoCare Maxi-Cosi’s brand new high-end, future-proof fabric which is soft and comfy on baby’s skin.
Its small frame makes it smaller than other cots for bedside use. It’s also easy to raise the bed to a comfortable level with just two levers. (Some mothers have found it difficult to move the bar linking the legs up and down. It also glides side to side, which lets you place it closer to your bed for night feeding or to soothe baby to sleep. As with other bedsides it has a spacious storage basket beneath for all your baby essentials.
4. Shnuggle Air
Shnuggle is a company that designs products that ease the parenting burden for parents and safer for babies. The company was founded with its first hypoallergenic moses basket without wicker in 2009. It has won more than 50 awards from the industry and consumer.
The dual-view mesh sides of the crib increase the airflow while allowing parents to keep an eagle eye on your baby. The mattress, tested to meet the most stringent British safety standards, is 50 more air-tight. The crib can also be turned into a cot using a separate kit, resulting in an ideal sleep solution for infants and toddlers. Its soft padded side panels keep baby’s arms or legs from getting caught in cot bars, and its fabric are washable and removable.
This bedside crib is easy to move around due to its swivel wheel. It can be attached securely to a bedframe or divan. It’s the only product on this list with an opening side that can be opened to allow the ability to feed your child at night or comforting.
In contrast to the bassinets featured in this guide, this model features soft padded sides, rather than cot bars, which keep little legs and arms from becoming stuck or tangled. It’s also a good option for breastfeeding mothers or women who have had a C-section because it’s simple to lift baby in and out for nursing and soothing.
It also has more features than most of the other cribs that are on this list, like an easy incline to help with reflux and colic as well as a storage hammock beneath and seven height adjustments. However, our testers for parents did say the safety catch on the top bar may sound a loud click when reattached which could wake your baby. The fabric and mattress can be removed and washed by hand. The crib is also easy to assemble.
5. Clair de Lune
The third movement in Claude Debussy’s 1890 Suite bergamasque ‘Clair de Lune,’ (French: moonlight), is based on Paul Verlaine’s wistful poetry and gives a dreamy feeling of a sun-drenched Italian small town. It’s also used in Twilight in which Edward Cullen plays it as he gazes at Bella with his vampire love. It’s a melodramatic love tale, but the music is excellent.
Mike Mills adapted this piece for his 2009 movie C’mon C’mon. In the film, it’s not played by a pianist but by the San Francisco Saxophone Quartet.