thread: What did you use to raise the head of the cot mattress?

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  1. #1
    Registered User

    Feb 2010
    Travelling
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    What did you use to raise the head of the cot mattress?

    I vaguely remember the magic angle being 30 degrees, not sure where I got this from but it *may* have been from the book 'baby on board' which is written by DD's paediatrician, who genrally appears to talk a lot of sense!

    I think we used a towel under the matress and a couple of books under each leg - we tried yellow pages but they raised it too much and dd just slid to the bottom!

    HTH

  2. #2
    Registered User

    Jan 2009
    pakenham, victoria
    3,660

    the MCHN warned me about lifting the actual mattress because bub could roll and get caught in the gap and to raise the whole cot itself IYKWIM? we used phone books

  3. #3
    Registered User

    Oct 2008
    Victoria
    4,601

    We too lift the whole cot by putting phone books under the legs.

  4. #4
    Registered User

    Oct 2007
    ★ nor here nor there ★
    4,134

    We have DD's cot lifted due to lung issues, and we have a brick for each leg at one end with a piece of carpet rolled around it

  5. #5
    Registered User

    Mar 2008
    North Northcote
    8,065

    we used phone books under the legs at times and at other times we used bricks...

    hth!

  6. #6
    Registered User

    Jun 2007
    Brisbane
    1,621

    Steve Waugh helps us ... well, his incredibly thick hardcover biography does, anyway. That plus an equally thick novel my mum left here prop one end of the cot up when DS2 has a headcold.

  7. #7
    Registered User

    Apr 2007
    194

    Phone books here as well lol

  8. #8
    Registered User

    May 2006
    Igglepiggle Land
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    We rolled up towels

  9. #9
    BellyBelly Life Subscriber

    Feb 2006
    melbourne
    11,462

    We too lift the whole cot by putting phone books under the legs.
    same!

  10. #10
    Registered User

    Oct 2008
    Canberra
    155

    Formula tins filled with sand under the legs.

  11. #11
    2014 BellyBelly RAK Recipient.

    Mar 2010
    1,200

    same as traveller pillows under the mattress is a steady way to do it. I also used this method for helping with my late pregnancy heartburn and when the girls have colds or asthma.

  12. #12
    Registered User

    Dec 2008
    8,986

    We did phone books under the legs too.