Pump it up and nod off (In The Night Garden My First Ready Bed)

Member Name: mummytothree

Product:	In The Night Garden My First Ready Bed
Date:	08/06/09 (52 review reads)
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Advantages: Inflates in 2 minutes, good bolsters for small children

Disadvantages: Will grow out of this quickly

We have this ready bed for going on adventures like sleep overs at Grandparents.

Unfotunately both sets of Grandparents dont have enough spare beds for our 3 children so we invested in 3 ready beds for them. Our youngest is only 21 months so we thought that this looked ideal.

It comes in a cylinders shaped material bag which zips open to reveal the inflatable bed which is similar to a lilo which then fits inside the material polycotton cover. There is a pump included to which is really handy as it would take sometime to blow this up by mouth.

I laid it out flat on the floor and connected the hose of the pump to the body of the pump and inserted the connector into the inflatable bed but nothing was happening, after reading the instructions I realised that I had the hose in the wrong part of the pump. I had been deflating instead of inflating.

Anyway after that it was easy, 2 minutes later it was fully inflated and had a child snuggled up inside.

The sides and headboard are inflated to act as bolsters to prevent a small child falling out. The cover zips down the side and at the bottom making it easy for a child to get out and in. The material is very bright and child orientated with a picture of Iggle Piggle and Upsy daisy holding hand on the front which impressed my daughter.

The only issue I have with this is that the material is almost fleece like and it seems to make my daughter sweat a lot and over heat. I now put a cotton sheet inside and this seems to have solved the issue.

My daughter has used this regularly for sleep overs in her sister and brothers rooms and occasionally at Grandparents and so far it has given us no problems but it is quite small length wise at 135 cm so I dont know how long it will be before she needs a bigger one.

Summary: Instant bed for toddlers, perfect for sleep overs or camping