There are things that you think you will ‘never do’ before you become a parent. Like co-sleeping and nursing beyond 12 months, parenthood surprised me and I had a change of heart on a number of things. Once I realized that certain things worked well and added closeness to our family (especially when we are short on time, going back to work, etc.) I just stuck with what worked. Ezra’s floor bed was one of those things.
I know that visitors loved Ezra’s mattress on the floor – sitting on it was easy and fun, and it felt nest-like. Grandparents however were not so thrilled. I got the question ‘how can you put your kid on the floor?’ a number of times, and even myself wondered if I would’ve found a solution sooner if we had critters in the apartment. I thought I would never put my son on the floor, but I had a deep-seated fear that he would roll off the bed and on to the floor – and irrational fears of a concussion in the night took hold. I feebly tried on the excuse of making Ezra’s room ‘Montessori’ so that he could easily reach things, crawl out of bed on his own – but he soon got too big for that to seem necessary.
Truth be told I also couldn’t seem to find a bed frame that I liked, that didn’t cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $800. Yeah I know, ridiculous.
Finally we found this bed frame while flea-marketing. A woman anxious to unload it and not have to tote it home beckoned “it’s only $5″, and suddenly we were curious. All it needed was a fresh coat of paint, and assembly. I knew that we’d fall for an old headboard that had some character to it, and the nice thing about this frame is that it accepted an Ikea slatted bed base so that a box spring wouldn’t add unnecessary height to that bump in the night (which still hasn’t happened, thankfully).
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