Bassinet Mattress

[AlligatorsMum]

Hi Everyone,

I have received a Boori (kingparrot) Urbane Bassinet to use for our bub. I need to replace the mattress which is fine but i dont know where to get it from. I have been given a few options. Just thought i would see what you would recommended

1. My friend has recommended Clark Rubber to cut a mattress with foam and then get a cover for it (from where i dont know!) approx $25.00
2. work collegue recommended a foam place that will cut bassinet mattress and I can get a zip lock cover as well with it in waterproof if i want approx $15.00
3. Bubs Baby Stores said they can get me a polyfiber breatheasy mattress with a zip cover $59.00

I dont knw whether a mattress cut from Foam is fine to use for a bassinet or whether i really do want to get a breatheasy mattress? I have no idea what is going to be fine re: health and safety concerns.

any advice would be helpful! i am a bit clueless to this!

[Bloom]

I can only speak from experience, but we got our basinette mattress cut to size from clark rubber. It was our only option as our bassinette is an old (but safe) oval one, and you can't really get oval mattresses which are the right size for it. I bought a bassinette mattress protector from target to put over it. It was fine for us and I was happy to use it.

[AlligatorsMum]

Hi Bloom,

was this for your DS2 this year? was it made from Green Foam? - I was worried it wasnt giong to be sturdy/firm enough?

Thanks for your post.

[Bloom]

I used it for both DSs. It was green foam. It was a good texture for a mattress. Our bassinnet has a flat hard base, so just put the foam on top of that . The foam was about 5-7cm deep.

[AlligatorsMum]

oh that is great. i think that is the stuff we are looking at as well. it is about 50mm thickness. and the green foam as well! we have a hard baord in the bottom of the bassinet as well. That is really helpful bloom, thanks for writing back. I would have spent the more money if i needed to but i figure the little guy wont be in the bassinett tooo long so dont want to spend heaps on it! Ill have a look at target for Mattress protectors - hopefully i can get one that fits.

[kristi14]

We had to do this 6 mths ago. Dont bother with clark rubber, while its cheaper, its a headache cos like you said, u then have to get a cover for it and imo its not safe enough. We got one cut and i refused to use it, i went straight to the baby store and spent $50 odd on a breatheasy mattress, it made me breatheasy, so i recommend getting one from the baby store

[emc2]

I was given a second hand Breatheze but it got mildew in it so that put me off the whole Breatheze idea personally lol.

They're nothing special when you take the cover off.