baby furniture

[Curly]

Welcome to Melbourne!

An innerspring mattress is definitely better than a foam mattress. We also got a cot that converts to a toddler bed but one it converts it takes a full size single bed mattress. You may want to check that so you don't get caught by surprise. We are about to convert DS' cot to a toddler bed and bought his single mattress last week from Snooze, cost $220.

We got our cot and change table from Baby Bunting (but chest of drawers etc we got from a cheap furniture place). If you spend over $500 in one purchase at Baby Bunting you get a 5% discount card. Baby Bunting is just up the road from us so very convenient and has made a lot of money out of us, lol.

Our carseat is a Safe and Sound Meridian. I have a friend who works in the baby equipment business and she says that all car seats must comply with Australian Safety Standards so the difference in price is down to the upholstery on the seats and some come with speakers and flash stuff like that.

Try the Choice (Australian consumer information) website for pram reviews. I believe they do review the Beema Q and from what I remember reading on posts here at BB it is a popular pram but does not have a toddler seat. This is something you may want to bear in mind if you think you will still need a pram for baby number 1 when you plan for baby number 2 to arrive. Otherwise you will wind up needing to invest in a whole new pram.

[Phteven]

I don't know if they have babies galore in Victoria but if they do avoid it. Every time I need to buy something and I do cost comparisons they are the most expensive. Usually by about 10%.
BabyCo are often well priced.
If you have time wait until June/July because most baby shops have stocktake sales around then and you'll save a bit.

[Becci]

I was very surprise with BabyCo's prices too. I was expecting to pay lots more there.

The cot that we plan on buying (at this stage anyway) that converts to a toddler bed, does use the cot mattress. Luckily we thought to ask though.
They also had the other toddler beds that have the lovely wooden side rails biult in ( I think they can be removed though). They were reasonably priced too at about $179 I think. Not sure on the mattress size, might be a bigger mattress. But thought they were a great idea if you didn't have a convertable cot but didn't want to put your toddler into a 'big' bed.

I think we are going for the SnS Royale. It had everything that we wanted. I was hoping for a Meridian but they didn't have any instock for us to look at. Was hoping to look at the Platinum one too but they didn't have those either.
We will be very happy with the Royale.