Sidecar VS adding a mattress

[overground55]

Hello! We currently bedshare with our just turned 2 year old and I have 0 desire to move her and neither does my husband.

We are due with another baby in the beginning of June and we are torn between a sidecar crib and adding an additional mattress.

If cost wasn’t an option we would do the family bed but unfortunately right now that isn’t an option.

My dilemma with a twin is the sizing. We currently have a king mattress and adding a twin would look weird especially with our bed frame trying to match height (my husband would take the twin but my daughter sometimes cuddles him)

 

[kyleeak]

@overground55 Put the mattresses on the floor . Safer that way anyway.

 

[sawry1]

@overground55 If cost and space were no issue I’d add a mattress on the floor. It’s safer.

I’m not going to say there is no way to make a side car crib safer, but if there’s ever an option between handy rigging something (side car cribs are a DIY) for your child’s safety and simply using something as it was made (a firm mattress) I’d always rather use an item as it was made.