Thankyou everyone. I am loving these ideas.

Laa actually fell asleep BY HERSELF on the bed for her nap today. Please tell me this sounds like a natural step in the right direction?!

She really does hate the cot so I think we will have to ditch it. I am loving hte idea of a floor mattress (I think we still have the slats from DD1's old bed that we could raise it on). Otherwise I think Ikea have a similar sort of thing?