Pod: the cocoon cot

When we were first looking round for nursery furniture, my mother brought me down to earth with the comment that a baby would sleep just as well in a cardboard box as in the designer cribs I was eyeing up. I took her point.

But given that one eschews the cardboard box option, wouldn't it be nice to buy something not just sufficient, but beautiful as well? I've just come across Ubabub, from Australia, and I'm impressed.

Their Pod 'cocoon cot', pictured here, features a transparent panel to make checking on the baby really easy - and, to placate my mum's simple tastes to some extent, perhaps, the whole caboodle converts into an equally stunning junior bed. Check out the rest of their lines too: this really is gorgeous stuff. Sorry, mum.