The popularization of the crib

Have you ever thought about where ‘the cot’ came from? Who invented it? When was it introduced into society? Before having my son, I always understood a cot to be a staple necessity in the life of a baby. The perfect cot within the perfect bedroom represented perfect parenting – that beautiful fantasy of what your life will be like when you became a parent. And as far as I was concerned, cots had been used by parents and babies since the dawn of mankind. I had not once given a second thought to the story behind the cot or its appropriation within western society.