2nd hand cots on trademe.

Hi, just been browsing through trademe for 2nd hand cots. I have noticed a few of the sellers have listed cots that are only a few months old saying that their baby prefers to sleep in bed with them - is this normal? I thought it would be really dangerous for a little baby to be with 1 or 2 big adults in bed!

Do you think it would be worth getting a cot that another baby supposably 'refuses', as one seller put it, to sleep in??

I bought ours off trademe. I basically looked around all the shops and decided exactly what I wanted and then waited till the right one came up on Trademe. I bought a touchwood cot and we will get a brand new mattress for it. The cot is in excellent condition except one of the catches gets stuck (but stuck in a good way). It saved us a lot of money.

I think it is unusual to see a lot of posts about baby prefering to sleep with mum and dad. mostly the cots are for sale as bubs is now a "big boy/girl".

There are a lot of people who co-sleep and although we don't and won't (maddie wriggles way too much!!) there are meant to be perfectly valid reasons for doing it and I know of many who do. It's really no biggie and not suss at all.

As long as the cot is in great condition then I see no issues with it.

emachan wrote: I have noticed a few of the sellers have listed cots that are only a few months old saying that their baby prefers to sleep in bed with them - is this normal? I thought it would be really dangerous for a little baby to be with 1 or 2 big adults in bed!

it depends on your view of "normal". but co-sleeping is just as safe as a cot if done correctly and safely, ie not if drunk, or a smoker etc...

it does sound like a funny reason to sell a cot tho. You would have to be careful tho that the cot met all safety standards, but i cant remember what they are. maybe someone else can remember or have a link for you.