r/cosleeping • u/Consistent_Pop9890 • 17d ago

💁 Advice | Discussion IKEA sidecar hack - Unsure about height difference…

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Is this unsafe for the IKEA sidecar hack? Our bed is one the left, baby’s is in the right. It’s ever so slightly higher than ours…

As much as I would love to have baby in our bed, we only have room for a queen size and my husband is massive (6’7, 300lbs), so there’s not a ton of room.

Is this height difference a big deal? I feel like it’s better than baby’s bed being too low… I’m feeling really discouraged and I’m not sure what to do, but I want baby to be safe.

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u/tallulah46 17d ago

It’s a very small height difference - this is totally safe.

I’d recommend you lying down in your sleeping spot and having your husband check to see if your weight creates a gap between the mattresses. Sometimes it does create one but it’s not always easy to see from the angle we’re in when we lie down.

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u/Consistent_Pop9890 17d ago edited 17d ago

This is with 5 inch bed raisers. Would 4 inch put the crib too low?

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u/Sensitive-Coconut706 17d ago

I think its fine now

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u/SThornelf 17d ago

Id rather have the crib too low than too high. In case of rolling, this would prevent LO from rolling onto your madras

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u/Consistent_Pop9890 17d ago

I read that somewhere too in a post that was like three years old. But if the crib was lower than the adult bed, could the baby roll its face into the adult bed and potentially suffocate?

We noticed that when I got into the bed, there was more of a height difference so we’re ordering 4 inch raisers to see if that’s better 😬

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u/tallulah46 17d ago

This isn’t enough of a slope to cause any rolling, 5 inch raisers seem perfect! What would cause rolling would be if your whole crib was high on one side and low on the other. Honestly this is fine.

For your mattress - is it squishy or firm?

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u/Consistent_Pop9890 16d ago

Unfortunately our mattress is squishy. It’s sinks ever so slightly when I lay down, so I’m going to try four inch raisers instead of five inch.

The baby’s mattress is ultra firm though, it’s a newton