How to Ensure Your Baby’s Safety in His Crib
It is essential that baby cribs are safe. After all, we entrust our babies in them for long and unsupervised periods. Check to see that you’ve followed these crib bedding safety guidelines before laying baby’s precious head down to sleep.
1. The right stats
The acceptable international safety standard for baby cribs bed advises that the space between the bars be between 50 and 85 mm (two to three inches). This measurement is believed to pose the least danger for tiny arms, legs, and heads from getting caught. The crib mattress should be firm, with less than 25 mm between it and the baby crib bedding all around. This is to reduce the risk of your baby getting caught in the gaps if he rolls over in the night.
2. Breathing space
Babies less than 12 months old are still at risk for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) so it’s best to do away with superfluous bedding material that can suffocate. A pillow for his head is still a nonessential item as infants have no dire need of them. It may cover his face during the night and obstruct his breathing. Keep his beddings simple, comfortable, and cool. Use cotton fabrics, few padding, and no clutter.
3. The right spot
Keep the crib an arm’s distance away from electrical cords, power points, curtains, large open windows, doors, a thermos of hot water, and chemicals. Set his crib in a quiet, dimly lit spot that’s easy for you to get to in the night. You’ll have a better night’s sleep knowing baby is safe and sound in his crib.
4. Toys and other bedfellows
Your baby doesn’t need his entire toy collection in the crib. A beloved teddy bear is okay but make sure it will not cause suffocation or choking. Do not leave your baby alone with his milk bottle propped up on a pillow. Unsupervised, he may choke on his milk. Sadly, many deaths have resulted from this scenario.
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To reduce risk of SIDS and other sleep related deaths in infants, it is so important to create safe sleeping environments for our kids. Check out these tips (http://www.cjsids.org/education/sleep-in-safety-grow-in-style.shtml ) for safe sleep environments at different stages during an infants’ first year of life…..which not only include placing bay to sleep on its back on a firm mattress, but also keeping cribs completely free of ANY bedding at all, keeping temperature mild so baby does not overheat , using ceiling or portable fans to keep air circulating and NO BED SHARING….if you want to co-sleep with your baby, it is safest to keep your infant in its own crib or bassinet within close proximity to you, but not in the same bed as you.
I agree with keeping very little or nothing in the crib w/baby while he/she is sleeping. Some parents might wonder what to do w/the beautiful comforters or quilts that go with the bedding sets (until baby is old enough to have a blanket in the crib w/them). Hanging the comforter over a quilt rack or on a wall is a great way to make walls more interesting as well as instantly coordinate with the nursery decor.