DS was in a brace until 13 months, it was shortly after that, basically my plan was to lower it as soon as he showed signs of rolling over/pushing himself up. The brace obviously slowed that down significantly
But if at 5 months he is showing these signs, I'd lower it, its amazing how quickly they go from showing signs of doing something to actually doing it - it can be less than a day!
We left the cot on its lowest setting from the word go, between largely cos-sleeping and the small room (and tetris-like maneuvering it took to get the cot in place to begin with) we decided setting it up once was easiest, and as it turned out, it was not used much until either of my sons were old enough to need the lower setting anyway - around 5ish months.
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