Graco Contour Electra Travel Cot - Posie

Graco Contour Electra Travel Cot – Posie      £79.99 (£99.99 full price)

 

I bought this travel cot from Toys r Us about a month before my daughter came along. I liked how girly it was and how small it folded, yet it seemed quite big and sturdy, so she would have plenty of room to grow.

I put it together myself at 35 weeks pregnant with SPD… so that tells you how easy it was. Though I found the instructions very poor I have to admit. Most of it was google and guess work. For the Travel Cot itself, the sides wouldn’t lock into place until the bottom of the cot was flat and in place, it took me about 30 mins to figure this out and I got increasingly frustrated, eventually watching a you tube video to help.

Then to set up the changing table; You basically just get pictures of what it “should” look like and you follow the pictures through, but the pictures are awful and it was difficult for me to follow. The changing table I originally put together upside down, so I was putting my daughter on the bottom of it. I eventually realised and went to correct my mistake and I couldn’t get the bars out which resulted in me ripping the fabric. Once it was on the correct way, I could no longer use the changing table as the rip caused my daughter to roll, the tension wasn’t there to hold her in the correct position.

We didn’t use the travel cot to begin with as my daughter wouldn’t settle in it so she slept in a side cot. I ended up going to Smyths and buying a proper Graco Travel Cot Mattress (£16.99) as I figured that after sleeping on a proper mattress in the side sleeper, she wouldn’t settle in the Travel Cot because the mattress supplied was very thin and plasticy. We now use it permanently as she sleeps well at the moment. I can’t find the bar for the activity bar. God knows what I have done with it, but it’s gone! We are currently still using the bassinet part which hold the baby half way up the cot rather than her being in the bottom, however we are literally weeks away from crawling so I am going to have to take the bassinet out sooner rather than later, this will cause problems with laying baby down to sleep as she will be much lower, and I will have to bend much further, so I have to admit I am not looking forward to it.

Overall this is a good Travel Cot. It has enough room for her to move around, but is secure. It has a console which plays music/vibrates and has a nightlight which we love, and it folds down easily for storage or travel. The only downsides are that the supplied mattress wasn’t very comfortable, so we ended up having to buy a more permanent solution. Also the instructions were terrible, which resulted in me breaking part of the cot.

The only reason I didn’t return it to get a replacement Changing Table was that they had stopped supplying this particular colour and wouldn’t give me a replacement part for it. So the changing part was never used.

I would definitely buy it again. I love it, its very pretty, however I would know this time around more about fixing it together.