Continuing on from this post and taking @ryivhnn's recommendation, and after a lengthy, heated discussion, we decided to sidecar her cot without lifting the mattress up a level.

Because our bed is quite high when she's in her cot she can't get up on the bed (yet). She does get up and leans on the side of the bed but that's about it for now.

All that said. We are still co-sleeping.

That's what the lengthy discussion was about. I wanted to lift the cot mattress up so it could be a proper sidecar but Hubby said it defeated the purpose of her being in the cot if she can topple out of it. I, however, wasn't quite ready to give up the ease of our current night time feeding routine so we compromised.

Basically the cot is there for when I'm still dead and she's up. I can move her to the cot for a bit and at least we have peace of mind knowing she won't fall out.

Unfortunately the cot brings forth a new set of problems.

Precious Bubba

Bella has a really low, LOW, pain tolerance. Like ridiculous, almost non existent, low. Even lower when she's tired.

The slightest bumps and she starts crying; which isn't really the end of the world but she won't be comforted. She stops when she's ready and over it.

I wish I was kidding.

She would fall over, bump her head on the cot and she would start crying. I'd pick her up immediately, comfort her, make her giggle, she would stop for a brief second or two and then start crying again until she was done.

I just can't handle her crying and because she's still clumsily figuring out the cot, she's always bumping into the hard bits.

Which brings me to why this post is a Part 1.

EOFYS

Again with the end of financial year sale.

We decided to head down the mountain today and go to Spotlight (think Michaels for Aussies) so I could buy the materials I needed to make cot guards.

Sure I could have bought them already made but we weren't happy with the amount of padding they had plus we had sections that needed custom work.

While we were down we of course couldn't resist the EOFYS at Baby Bunting.

My back demanded we buy a pram so we bought one that was 50% off, assembled it immediately and wheeled her around for a while.

Luckily she waited long enough for us pick out the material and padding we wanted from Spotlight before she wanted back in the carrier.

I honestly thought she'd be more comfortable in the pram I guess she's just so used to being close to us.

Anyhooo! Part 2!

I'll show you guys the materials we picked out and my custom design for the bumpers. The foot and head of the cot are solid timber so that's going to be tricky to work out.

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