The cot bed is a huge part of any nursery, both in its importance and actual size. Choosing the right bed for your baby often depends on your budget as they can be very expensive. Once you've worked out what your budget is you can start deciding which styles you like within your budget.

Because you baby will be spending a lot of time in their cots they end up a bit worn by the time your child is ready to move up to a kids single bed. To minimize the wear on the cot bed to allow you to either sell it on or reuse it with your next child, you should be buying the best quality cot bed that your budget will allow.

Online reviews and rating websites for cot beds is a great place to get an honest opinion from someone who’s already bought the cot bed you’re considering and their baby is using it every night. These reviews often cover how user friendly the beds are as well as the build quality.

Quite often you’ll find that the best prices and deals are to be found online. This is because the competition online to far greater than the local competition trying to sell you a cot bed. There are even websites out there that do the hard part of searching the web for the best prices and than return you the results in a number of orders like lowest price first or quickest delivery time. The reason why websites are able to offer the same cot bed as the local stores at a much reduced rate is because they operate at a much lower running cost.

The last time you should do is rush into purchasing a cot bed. These beds are expensive and your baby will be using it for a few years so you would to make sure you make the right decision. Once you’ve found a cot bed you like you should start researching it and finding out where the cheapest place to buy it is.

Basically if you remember to take time to work out your budget, think about buying a durable bed rather than the cheapest you can found, and make sure to read reviews and ratings online, you’ll end up with a great cot bed that will last you a long time.