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Okay, so it does seem a bit late to introduce a cot mobile to DS2, but he has just moved into his cot and I was wondering if it would soothe him a bit more as he has been a bit off lately - give him something to look at / listen to. So any recommendations for cot mobiles and is there an age limit they go up to?
TIA x
We've got one and it says that you should remove it at 6 months, I assume because by then the child can reach it and play with it. DD is 14 months old and she likes to look at it and play with it when we are changing her nappy (we've got one of those over the top of the cot changemats.) I don't have any plans to remove it. Ours is a kidsline one I think, fairly simple and plays music. We rarely use the music one these days.
Another option is one of those Fisher Price things that light up and put things on the roof when it's dark and also plays music??
we tried a mobile with DS but it didn't really work - it supposedly had a remote to activate it wirelessly from the door but that only worked at night when there was no ambient light (it was light activated somehow - daylight reduced the beam somehow). A Fisher Price jungle theme one from memory - currently packed away while I think about what to do with it. It was also chunky on the set up on the side of the cot - we had to have the cot out from the wall a bit to get the thing to attach mainly because we couldn't attach it to the end of the cot because of the design of the cot. It was also supposed to convert to being able to use on the bench/cupboard top and put rotating lights on the roof (unfortunately the spot we had to put it didn't really work when it was converted and it was just too big to take up the valuable flat space we had.) DS wasn't really into it in the end we just packed it up and put it away. I think we had it in his cot from about 1 month-ish to about 7/8 mths when he started to grab it and pull on it.
I don't think I've really helped have I? :) I would make sure you didn't get a chunky attachment section one (I can't think of what else to call that bit). If I was going to try it again with the next one, I'd probably just get one of those light projectors or make a fairly basic one myself or hang one from the ceiling rather than trying to have one to attach to the cot.
Liebling has some wooden giraffes that are still over his bed. Yes, he can reach them and enjoys batting them about still. He also has a fisherprice thing that plays music and has a little light show for 5, 10 or 15 minutes, which he loves. Soothes him off to sleep still, and now he's bigger he can sit up and get it going again in the middle of the night if he needs to. Big plus is that it isn't over the bed, it's on his old changing area next to the bed, so he won't pull it down on top of himself.
DD has one just have to get her to sleep in the cot :lol:
We have the fisher price ones which plays music and has lights, the kids all turn them on when they wake up overnight to help them go back to sleep.
We have one over the changetable and DD loves it! She can pull it down on top of her, but I'm there so it doesn't really matter.
As for the cot, my sister has one over her daughter's cot. When I put DD in there and leave the mobile up she doesn't sleep. She'll be quiet for ages just looking and playing and then eventually get upset. So I've started taking the mobile down and she settles.
Morale of the story - it may be too late to introduce your DS to something like this over his cot (e.g. he might view it as a toy rather than something soothing to help him sleep).