Nowadays, toddlers are more than their parents during their own childhood. You can attribute it to safer transportation modes, higher needs for family togetherness through travels, and even just greater wants for grandparents to see their grandchildren. Whatever the reason for your children sleeping in places outside of home, you may have to provide for a toddler travel bed.
Just as its name implies, this is a bed especially suited for traveling toddlers and their parents, too. Now, you may ask why purchase a travel bed for your toddler when any other comfortable bed will do just fine. After all, a bed is a bed is a bed.
Well, not really where toddlers are concerned. You have to understand that toddlers will have emotional and physical safety and security issues when sleeping in an unfamiliar bed. You may have a restless sleeper disturbing your sleep in an unfamiliar hotel room.
Or it can be just a relative’s house or a neighbor’s apartment for sleepovers. The fact is that the surroundings are still unfamiliar for your toddler. But with a familiar bed in tow, your child will have something, well, familiar to hold on to and, hopefully, be less afraid. Think of it as giving your child a piece of home without the bulky baggage of bringing said piece.
However, the toddler travel bed is not just for traveling. You may also use it as your child’s transition bed, which is definitely more affordable than buying a full-sized bed. Basically, your child will start sleeping on the bed instead of in the crib, which is now too small to hold the toddler’s size, height and weight.
Or you can also use the toddler bed in cases when your child has to sleep in your bedroom but not in your bed. For example, your child may be sick but instead of walking to and from his bedroom during the night attending to his needs, you have him right in your room. Say goodbye to zombie parents whenever your child is sick at home.
Now that you have been sold on the idea of a travel bed, you may wonder about the ease with which it can be transported from one place to the next. Well, it is very easy to do so considering that toddler travel beds are either inflatable or foldable or both!
Just to name two of your options in a toddler travel bed, you have the portable air bed and the peapod travel bed as discussed below:
* Portable air bed – It is a very compact, comfortable and lightweight bed that can be inflated or deflated with a hand pump. With its raised sides, your child will feel secure inside it. You must add a mattress cover, pillows and blankets to transform the toddler bed into a familiar bed away from home.
* Peapod travel bed – This is very similar to the portable air bed but with one difference. You will find that it has an extra cover attached to its side, which looks like a pocket. Again, you should place clean covers, pillows and blankets in his favorite colors and characters.
Indeed, the right choice in a toddler travel bed can spell the difference between a soundly-sleeping angel and an irritable little devil. So, choose one now and sleep soundly, too.
