The word "cot" is correct and usable in written English.
A cot is a small, usually foldable bed, which is often used for camping or sleepovers. For example: We packed up our camping equipment and slept in the cots set up in the back garden.
As she lies wrapped in white cotton in an iron cot sterilized with bleach, her swollen legs appear dislocated from her rattling body.
In the cot three feet away from her, lies little Gricelda.
I put the baby in her cot, where she was instantly lulled to sleep by the sounds of the call to prayer that rang out across the old city, and took my book to the terrace to enjoy the first of what was to be many "little" glasses of wine.
His partner, agency worker Dzesika Urbikaite, 22, returned to their Peterborough home that night to find her daughter dead in a cot.
Of course, EastEnders had an opportunity with their storyline about cot death to get some good messages across, but they damaged that chance by creating a completely inappropriate and shockingly insensitive storyline.
He talks frequently about the privations of his early years: he slept in a drawer as a baby because his parents couldn't afford a cot, and his family was forced to travel round the country looking for work, before finally emigrating to South Africa.
Before his trial, he produced an account claiming the baby must have fallen out of bed and hit her head on the side of the cot while he was beside her in a deep sleep.
That, alongside the three-walled bedside cot we rented purely to trick him into thinking he was sleeping with us, seems to have performed an actual miracle.
They wait for someone to bring up co-sleeping, so that they can either decry it as a deadly invitation for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome or scream that you don't love your kid if you make it sleep in a cot.
After Coronation Street's tram crash, this week viewers protested bitterly to the BBC about an EastEnders plotline in which the mother of a cot death victim swaps her baby for another woman's.
I refused to share a bed with our daughter and was very strict about safe sleeping methods as I have seen too many cot deaths to take any chances.
