https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 26 Apr 2026 03:46:12 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-tried-or-heard-of-a-floor-bed#post-2790287 Wed, 06 Dec 2017 09:04:17 +0000 snowjewelz 2790287@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DD1 sleeps on a floor bed. We coslept till 2, but started napping her in her own room with her floor bed a few months before. Love that we don't have to worry about falling out. For your much younger DS, I think if you keep his room to the bare minimum with nothing much that's unsafe, and always have a monitor or something to watch him, you can for sure try it! I think there is a HB all about this. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-tried-or-heard-of-a-floor-bed#post-2790219 Tue, 05 Dec 2017 17:53:46 +0000 maddyz 2790219@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ds1 slept in a for bed until he started walking around the apartment doing things at night.</p> <p>Ds2 is in a crib, but mostly that was because i didn't want him accessible to ds1.</p> <p>I really liked the floor bed. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-tried-or-heard-of-a-floor-bed#post-2789754 Sat, 02 Dec 2017 18:18:30 +0000 MamaCate 2789754@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@cake2017: we are on kid #2 with a floor bed. It is just a crib mattress on the floor. We baby proof the room—attached furniture, etc etc. We never did cribs so I can’t compare but I have been happy. My DD (now 6), was in it until she transitioned to a “big kid bed” at 3. DS is 28 months and happy. They both roll off sometimes but have figured out how to get back in without issues.</p> <p>For DS who is currently in the bed, we have not sleep trained. I nursed him down until he was 2 and I like the transition to the floor bed more than to the pack and play when we travel. Now he lies down and I sit in the rocking chair for a few minutes and then leave. </p> <p>If you are going to do a floor bed and sleep train, make sure you are comfortable with the idea that the baby very likely will spend some time sleeping on the floor instead of the bed! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-tried-or-heard-of-a-floor-bed#post-2789742 Sat, 02 Dec 2017 15:41:10 +0000 MamaBear87 2789742@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@cake2017: no idea. We never used a crib. </p> <p>We didn't do any sort of sleep training until lo was 23 months. But yes we used the floor bed </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-tried-or-heard-of-a-floor-bed#post-2789741 Sat, 02 Dec 2017 15:40:15 +0000 JoyfulKiwi 2789741@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@cake2017: we started our son with a crib mattress, but after a few months he started rolling off it in his sleep b/c it was so little. He wasn’t getting hurt, he’d just get cold and wake up. We got a regular twin mattress &amp; he still uses that.for our daughter, we started her on a twin right away and it’s been fine. Our son got a bed frame about the time he was 3 years old (we cut down the legs of an IKEA one so it’s still basically on the floor), but our daughter is still just in the mattress on the ground. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-tried-or-heard-of-a-floor-bed#post-2789740 Sat, 02 Dec 2017 15:36:23 +0000 cake2017 2789740@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@JoyfulKiwi: Where did you get your floor beds? Was a certain mattress that made your children comfortable??? Ours lives our mattress/bed... he won’t fuss when you put him down but he “knows” when hes in the crib mattress! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-tried-or-heard-of-a-floor-bed#post-2789739 Sat, 02 Dec 2017 15:34:27 +0000 cake2017 2789739@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@youboots: Absolutely! That wouldn’t be a problem for us! We just want him to be comfortable and happy. I know it won’t be perfect all the time but just trying to see what will work best! Thank u!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-tried-or-heard-of-a-floor-bed#post-2789738 Sat, 02 Dec 2017 15:34:19 +0000 JoyfulKiwi 2789738@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Both my kids use floor beds. My son is 5 years old &amp; we put him in one when he was 15 months. My daughter is 2 years old &amp; we started her at 9 months. Both of them hated their cribs and we co-slept starting from whenever they had their first wake up.<br /> We love it. Their rooms were/are sparse &amp; baby proofed. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-tried-or-heard-of-a-floor-bed#post-2789737 Sat, 02 Dec 2017 15:32:43 +0000 cake2017 2789737@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MamaBear87: I’m looking into this only because the crib seems to not be working. Was that the case for you? Did you sleep train your LO using the floor bed? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-tried-or-heard-of-a-floor-bed#post-2789728 Sat, 02 Dec 2017 14:41:05 +0000 Anya 2789728@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@cake2017: I did it because I was ebf and it just seemed easier to lay down with them rather than transfer into a crib. And more economical since a crib is so temporary but these mattresses will eventually just go into whatever bed frame when they're older. My older daughter loooves her bed. They've never had a crib so I can't really compare but we've used a pack n play a couple of times while traveling and that's been fine. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-tried-or-heard-of-a-floor-bed#post-2789726 Sat, 02 Dec 2017 14:32:33 +0000 cake2017 2789726@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Anya: What made you go with the floor bed? Does your babies sleep better versus with a crib? If you used one? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-tried-or-heard-of-a-floor-bed#post-2789715 Sat, 02 Dec 2017 13:25:41 +0000 Anya 2789715@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My preschooler has had a floor bed since 5 months and my 6 month old sleeps on one now. Works great for us! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-tried-or-heard-of-a-floor-bed#post-2789713 Sat, 02 Dec 2017 13:04:08 +0000 MamaBear87 2789713@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our little has always slept in a floor bed. Her room was just baby proofed. Worked great for us. That said we would snuggle her until she fell asleep until she was almost 2 and we coslept with her until she was 8 months. At 8 months she started out in the floor bed until she woke up and came to bed with us </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-tried-or-heard-of-a-floor-bed#post-2789707 Sat, 02 Dec 2017 12:37:35 +0000 youboots 2789707@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Dd sleeps on a floor mat when we travel. I’ve heard of others doing this at home.</p> <p>My concern is at at that age is safety you would have to baby proof everything... furniture secured to walls, electrical outlets covered, baby gate on door, nothing big or breakable to pull down (like a lamp) etc. Babies are so curious and unsteady when they start walking. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-tried-or-heard-of-a-floor-bed#post-2789705 Sat, 02 Dec 2017 12:27:44 +0000 cake2017 2789705@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Just thinking of ways baby can get comfortable with sleeping alone. I’ve read about the Montessori Bed which led me to find the “floor bed”. LO doesn’t like the crib at all. I have to wait until he’s asleep and tip toe to lower him into it. He wakes up and we start all over. I’ve CIO before and there wasn’t success there. Now this has all been when he was in our room(crib in our bedroom). Now I am working on him sleeping in his own room alone. I know it will not be overnight but I want him to be comfortable overall. I read that making a bed on the floor has helped babies who resist the crib. Even just taking his mattress and safely setting up a bed... I don’t know. Just trying to read options. I am still working on him and his crib. He’s almost 6 months. </p> <p>I’d like to hear what people think and their thoughts about this method!?! Thanks! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/a-question-about-floor-beds#post-990629 Mon, 05 Aug 2013 14:09:27 +0000 allison 990629@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@prettylizy: did you ever build this? I really like this idea. I love the idea of a floor bed, but we got LO a pretty expensive mattress that I'd really prefer to not put directly on the floor! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/a-question-about-floor-beds#post-554331 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:39:15 +0000 prettylizy 554331@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thanks for you input everyone, I think this might be a summer project for DH and I :) He's on board to build a modified bedframe for her, and even mentioned making the headboard a chalkboard or if we do upholstered a french memo board style for her to display artwork on. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/a-question-about-floor-beds#post-554299 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:22:38 +0000 Maysprout 554299@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I like the look of that. We have a floor bed but I've been thinking of raising it up a couple inches off the ground too, just so she's not breathing in as much floor dust. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/a-question-about-floor-beds#post-554289 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:18:00 +0000 brownie 554289@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: Anywhere. We have bed rail on one side, but he uses it mostly because he wants to cuddle to it. We have had him in hotel beds and it has never been an issue. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/a-question-about-floor-beds#post-554091 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:50:43 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 554091@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think that's fine. The intent is to allow the child to get in and out of bed easily and to make their own bed. (Thus why ours doesn't look so "polished"!) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/a-question-about-floor-beds#post-554086 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:48:17 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 554086@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@brownie: does your son sleep in the middle or the edge? if you were to put him in his own regular bed would you add rails to prevent falls onto the floor? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/a-question-about-floor-beds#post-554064 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:41:30 +0000 brownie 554064@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This isn't montessori, but my son co-beds with us on our queen bed in a regular/high frame. He uses the dog stairs to get up and can get off any high bed anywhere (he isn't 2 yet and has been doing this since he was 12 months old). So there are many ways to have that independence. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/a-question-about-floor-beds#post-554007 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:11:16 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 554007@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>One thing next to the.montessori beds I notice.are rugs.and nlankets...if they roll.off at least the floor is soft. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/a-question-about-floor-beds#post-553810 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 11:53:56 +0000 prettylizy 553810@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>also- for everyone who loves this bed, here are the plans to build it for yourself. Apparently it's a knock off of a PBK bed :)</p> <p><a href="http://ana-white.com/2012/02/plans/fillman-platform-twin-platform-bed" rel="nofollow">http://ana-white.com/2012/02/plans/fillman-platform-twin-platform-bed</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/a-question-about-floor-beds#post-553807 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 11:53:08 +0000 prettylizy 553807@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Cole: did her parents have rails on the bed in case she rolled out? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/a-question-about-floor-beds#post-553803 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 11:52:47 +0000 .twist. 553803@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have no advice but that is really beautiful! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/a-question-about-floor-beds#post-553797 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 11:51:46 +0000 Cole 553797@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So far as I am aware, the idea behind a floor bed is to give the child a safe bed that they can easily access without help. For a young toddler the floor is both the safest and easiest but there is no reason another style wouldn't fit that criteria. I watched a little girl who starting at 2 had a queen sized bed that she could safely sleep in and climb in and out of so the way I see it that meet the same goal as a floor bed. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/a-question-about-floor-beds#post-553758 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 11:39:28 +0000 prettylizy 553758@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Pen: We would be modifying the bed anyhow since the plans I found to make it are for a twin bed and we have a queen mattress for her room so I think we could make it work. My biggest concern about it being up on a platform is that it's higher and she might roll off and hurt herself :T #firstimemommyproblems </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/a-question-about-floor-beds#post-553741 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 11:33:56 +0000 Mrs. Pen 553741@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oooh I like that!!! So pretty! </p> <p>As for taking out slats, you could however usually the frame extends so the mattress wouldn't fit inside... Does that make sense? Your have to deconstruct the frame a bit. </p> <p>What about a platform bed frame? It would require pretty baby to climb on the platform and then into the bed. But they make low platforms and it would still allow for independence </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/a-question-about-floor-beds#post-553735 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 11:31:45 +0000 Weagle 553735@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@prettylizy: I've started thinking about this too. The idea of just a mattress icks me out, but I think the floor bed is a great idea. I'd love to have some kind of headboard. </p>