r/floorbed

My parents (dad & stepmom) are DYING to have a sleepover with my 15 month old son. This might be long… but advice is appreciated.

My son sleeps in a twin floor bed with 30” high rails. Where would he sleep if he stayed with them? He’s wild. He would absolutely roll off the bed.

If my son wakes during the night, if he’s not crying… I don’t go to him. Probably 90% of the time he puts himself back to sleep. Sometimes it takes 5 min & sometimes he lays there and babbles in the dark for a half hour before he falls back asleep. He has books within reach of his bed, and if he wakes super early, it’s not uncommon for him to pull a book through the rails and look at it then go back to sleep. I do not intervene until 7 am at the earliest. Unless he cries. Then I go in.

However, I have no doubt that without the crib rails he would get up and walk around. He would get out of bed. At least once a night, more likely once in the night and again around 6:00 am. I don’t see this going well at grandma & grandpa’s house.

I’m having another baby in July. My parents are not capable of carrying my son up our stairs. They’ve told me this. He walks, but if he doesn’t want to go upstairs… I pick his tiny butt up and take him upstairs. You cannot force a toddler to walk up stairs on their own. Sometimes transport is required. We have NOBODY to call when I go into labor. My son will HAVE to stay with my parents, and it will HAVE to be at their house because they have a single level home.

Any thoughts? Advice? How should I address this?

Do you nurse or cuddle them to sleep or do they fall asleep independently? I have a very sensitive 10 month old bad sleeper but I stopped nursing to sleep some months ago. He‘s fine with cuddling to sleep now but this means that he wakes up 30-90mins after bedtime and I have to go in again and basically spend the night with him in his bed. How do others do it?

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 always planned to move my baby to a floor bed once he outgrew his bassinet, but I didn’t expect him to outgrow it so quickly. He is a long baby (24 in/62 cm) so getting close to outgrowing lengthwise. He is also starting to try to roll over, so we are transitioning out of the swaddle. When his arms are out he moves a lot and ends up against the sides of the bassinet which wake him up. His head and neck control while on his tummy are OK but not amazing.

We have a firm twin size mattress and the Sprout floor bed frame. I’m nervous about safety for a 10 week old.

I do not plan to cosleep but could be convinced.

For those of you who did a floorbed this early, what was your experience?

For those of you who waited, what were your reasons?

Thanks in advance.

Like the title says I plan to start transitioning my LO from sidecar bassinet to a floor bed after we move apartments over the summer. Right now she typically nurses to sleep and transitions pretty well to her bassinet once she’s actually asleep. Since she nurses to sleep and sometimes wants to bedshare in the mornings I’m torn between doing a twin size bed bed so I could lay with her or a crib size with crib mattress to be safer, I know it’s a ways away and her habits could change not to mention the big feelings that could potentially come from moving and being in a completely new space. I’m curious about safe (or safer) options and what sort of set ups have worked for others. TIA!

As title says, are you using a regular adult mattress on the floor? Any recommendations for a super firm mattress? I've been cosleeping for about 6mo with my now 10mo and about a month ago moved to the floor with the mattress, but have been really paranoid the last couple nights about rebreathing and whatnot. Could use some mattress recommendations and some reassurance/info on rebreathing?

So I live in Japan, where the sleeping practices and the regulations for beds and bedding is pretty different. My baby’s nursery is a tatami room, which means we can’t put a proper crib, so we got [this floor bed thing](https://www.farska.com/product/spec/compactbedfits) from a Japanese brand. He has been sleeping in it since he was born (we room share as one of us sleep with him in his nursery), but the more I learn about the safety guidelines overseas, I’m doubting more about this bed. The mattress is firm enough, but it’s got a 7cm-high flame all around. It was advertised to prevent the baby from rolling out from the bed, but from what I read, the flame is actually unsafe as it might pose suffocating risk, am I right? The flame is made with the same material as the mattress so it‘s firm though. I’ve taken out the higher frame thing it came with, so it just has that 7cm frame all around. Since he started to roll, he sometimes hangs around over this flame, and I’m worried it might not be safe. Luckily he hasn’t done that during his sleep yet.

I’d love to keep this bed since it was pretty expensive, but what do you think? If we should get rid of it, what would you recommend? Should I just get a simple baby size mattress and put it on the tatami floor? Or an adult size mattress? I like that it will give the baby more space to roll, but I worry it might be a bit too high if the baby falls. And as his nursery is rather small, we’ll probably need to stop room sharing if we give him an adult size mattress. Thoughts?

Hi everyone!

I'm a mum of two little ones (ages 1 and 4) and I've been working on a children's house bed design that I originally made for my own daughter — because I couldn't find anything on the market that felt right. Most options were either too busy and overstimulating, or so minimal they felt cold and uninspiring for a child's room. And the more affordable options simply didn't meet my expectations when it came to quality and stability — I wanted something genuinely robust, built to last, and just as solid after years of daily use as it is on day one.

What I wanted was something in between: calm and simple, but still warm and genuinely playful — and made from high-quality solid wood that can withstand the wear and tear that comes with kids.

The result is the bed in the photo — a Montessori-style floor house bed in solid natural wood that my daughter Leila uses every day. The low height means she can get in and out completely independently, and the side frame gives security without making it feel enclosed or cage-like.

Before I start a small production run, I'd love honest feedback from parents:

👉 What do you think of the design?

👉 What would you change or improve?

👉 What size would work best for your child — 90×200 cm (single) or 140×200 cm (fits a parent too)?

All feedback welcome — critical opinions especially appreciated! 🙏

https://preview.redd.it/41hyflu6rmzg1.png?width=1624&format=png&auto=webp&s=0125458cdc1d66e8e8d05df74d24e245c374f120

She thinks that he is going to be having free range of the house while we are asleep and getting into everything. What are your experiences with the floor bed? I was thinking until baby as old enough that it felt right, we were going to have him in our room anyway. How much can he get into while sharing our room?

Hello, I currently have a 24 month old who has enter his 2 year sleep regressions. He’s always been a terrible sleeper. No sleep training method has ever worked. The only thing is laying next to his crib while he falls asleep. We have a 3 month old currently who wakes up anytime she senses I’m not near, so when I go to console my toddler in the night and lay next to him, she inevitably wakes up. Thinking to switch to a floor bed for him to not only make it easier to take baby with me to lay next to him but also give him some independence if he wants to wake up and get a drink of water or turn on his nightlight and read a book.

In all the posts I’ve thumbed through people started this wayyy earlier than I expected. Is it took late to move him from the crib to a floor bed? Side note: the only reason he is still in the crib is because of his sleep sack otherwise he can climb in and out. The sleep sack prevents him from doing that.