Recommend your Cot

I used to think Pamco cots were ok but have recently changed my mind. We bought one a year ago, and straight away one of the railings snapped, as our baby was due any day we just mended it ourselves and forgot about it.

However last week my 12mo was standing in her cot shaking the bars (as all entrapped toddlers do!) and she snapped all the railings out! Luckily my brother who is a builder was staying with us and fixed it (4 nails plus glue per railing to fix). I haven't bothered approaching Pamco regarding it as I have heard dealing with them is like banging your head against a brick wall (see previous threads) but would not recommend at all, in fact what happened with ours was down right dangerous had the baby fallen out, got stuck or impaled herself on one of the snapped railings.

wahoo wantabub 15 weeks

Forgot what type of cot ours are but the mattresses are from mocka and were $99 each including postage and I think they are quite good for the price. They do cots also, we love our mocka wooden highchair. They also do a wee discount for two if you say you are part of multiple birth society.

Our cots still look like new as have plastic cover over the rail bit but neither seem interested in chewing etc.

Setting up for twins sure adds up and I think we should have bought a few things secondhand instead of all new but I wanted everything to match.

I would always buy a new mattress though. You could ask the local multiple birth society if anyone selling off any baby gear?

bought a second-hand Touchwood cot off trademe and we love it. not sure why. we just do! It was in good nick and the brand was highly recommended by friends with babies.

We got ours from The Cot Store. It's a family run business in Chch. They use NZ wood but the cots are made in China. They convert to toddler beds which was important for us and with needing two the price is really reasonable.

While they didn't do a multiple discount they did throw in free mattress protectors. (we also bought the mattresses and change table from them).

There was a thread a while back regarding the Cot Store cots.
The only thing I would say as a negative is that the finish wasn't that flash, but you get what you pay for and a comparable cot style that converted to toddler bed was a LOT more expensive.

Ours is a Touchwood, bubs hasn't arrived yet but it feels sturdy and safe, and I like that you need to use both hands to drop the side - to me it feels safer that some of the other methods.  I struggled to get a GroTime cot to drop its side in a shop by using one hand and my foot/shin...I just couldn't get it to work!  My SIL also has a Touchwood and loves it.

If you're looking at Mocka cots, remember that the side doesn't drop at all, so you'll have to make the bed up, put bubs in and out without dropping the side at all.  It might just be because I'm pregnant, but I struggled to make the cot up on bassinet height with the side dropped without taking the whole mattress out and putting the fitted sheet on that way, so I don't know how I'd manage if the side couldn't drop at all!  Just my thoughts

get a 2ndhand touchwood, ours is the full rimu (they only do rimu stained pine now) and we only paid $220 for it, fantastic value and a great cot. I see you are in Welly, go to the touchwood factory in tawa and they sell the "luxury" mattresses for them much cheaper too $199 - same as what the retailers sell the cheaper mattress for. they really are the best on the market for sturdiness, and if you dont mind a few marks when 2nd hand (our have teeth marks, could sand off but i really dont care, E will prob add her own when she had biters) then get off trade me, there is always a bargain to be had!

I got a supernanny cot from babies.co.nz it is white and on sale at the time it cost us about $300 and that was mattress included so really great deal and it's a lovely cot.

Just wanted to say also OMG you are having twins, yay after you waited so long, that is so perfect :) (I was lisaas101 from charting back in the day).

:)

Whoops ok just read you are needing 2 cots. This wont help you as they would cost you a packet for 2 of these. Sorry i should have read through better.

Exciting!
We have the Mocka aspiring - $199 + $99 for mattress and free postage. I am sure you could talk to them about prices for two - we bought it when it was 20% off (which happens fairly regularly). They also now have toddler conversion piece for $69.95 (replaces one side) so pretty cost effective.