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Selecting Baby Bedding
Nursery themes and selecting decor is a favorite project for new parents, friends and relatives. Bedding must always be used as instructed by the manufacturer to help ensure baby's safety.
Infants should always be placed to sleep - for the night or napping - on a firm mattress in a crib which meets current safety standards.
Normal, healthy babies should be placed on their backs to sleep.
Baby should never be placed to sleep on soft surfaces such as pillows, sofa cushions, adult beds, or other surfaces not specifically designed for infant sleep.
Only a fitted crib sheet, mattress pad, and/or waterproof pad should be used between the sleeping baby and the crib mattress.
Select bumper pads that fit around the entire crib and tie or snap securely into place.
Quilts, comforters and blankets should be placed on top of a sleeping baby and never put under the baby.
Do not overheat baby. The temperature in the room should feel comfortable to you.
To prevent baby from chewing on the bumper straps, ties or ribbons or becoming entangled and strangled, trim off any excess length after the strap is tied.
Use bumper pads only until the child can pull up to a standing position. Then remove them so your baby cannot use the pads to climb out of the crib.
Mobiles should also be removed when baby can pull himself/herself up.
Pillows and plush toys should be used for decoration and not for baby's use. Be sure to remove them when baby is sleeping or unattended as they may cause suffocation.
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