Baby Gear & Stroller News

Parents spend a lot of time thinking about decorating a nursery for their baby,  worry about many things, and find themselves with many decisions to be made. Today’s parents of the new born babies have a lot of questions regarding the bringing up of the babies – how they will have to adjust to the new lifestyle, in taking care of the kid by any one parent’s care at home or in day-care and whether to use diapers or other linen fabric. Often parents do not consider the motif for the baby’s crib set.

Gifts brought for baby showers range from home-made booties, to noise-making toys. Infant sleeping gifts usually include a series of blankets, receiving cloths, pillows, and stuffed animals. Unfortunately, some retailers who sell items for the nursery focus more on “the cuteness factor” and fail to consider baby’s safety.

All responsible parents-to-be are, first and foremost, interested in furnishing a nursery with products that will insure the top level of safety for their baby. Baby bedding and decor should suit the baby inside it.  If the bedding is too fluffy then the child, still too young and weak to rearrange themselves for comfort, will have a hard night’s sleep. Using a fluffy blanket when a baby is sleeping may cause suffocation.

You can still use the fluffy blanket your mother-in-law sent you, but use it when you have control of what is going into the baby’s mouth. For the most part, baby bedding should be as flat as the average sheet. Avoid putting fluffy bedding into the child’s crib, if you absolutely have to use thicker bedding, use it only when holding the child.

Small infants do not need pillows and if you do put them on a pillow, most of them will squirm off of it. Newborns always lie on their backs, and, when they have learned to roll over, on their stomachs.  In either case, babies sleep with their heads to the side, which means all new parents must be aware of the very real choking and smothering hazards faced by all sleeping babies. Putting a pillow in with the baby doesn’t add comfort, it adds danger because babies don’t always have the motor skills required to move something that is obstructing their airways. As a result you won’t find a pillow in any quality crib set you bring home, and this includes Max collection bedding.

Stuffed animals in a crib or bed are more dangerous to a child than fluffy blankets or pillows. Stuffed animals are dangerously attractive to young children, who love to hug the precious toys, but may be too tiny and weak to push their “little friends” away when they obstruct their breathing or movement.

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