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Baby Crib Safety - Frequently Asked Questions
by Martin Smith
The crib is where your baby will spend a lot of their time and you want to be sure they are safe. Below are some of the questions (with the answers) that are asked about crib safety.

Crib Toys
As your baby grows and becomes more active, she can become entangled in her crib gym or other bright toy that stretches across or is attached to her crib. She could also fall across the toy and become asphyxiated.

Baby Crib Safety Ideas and tips
- Have a firm fitting mattress or bedding which will easily fit into the crib.

From crib to cot to bed
make sure the transistion from crib to cot is as stress free as possible
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The crib is where your baby will spend a lot of their time and you want to be sure they are safe. Below are some of the questions (with the answers) that are asked about crib safety.

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I'd buy a used crib but I'd get a new mattress.
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No way. I'm not so into buying used things.

The First Years Crib CD Player attaches easily to the side of most cribs. It also worked well on the side of a playpen and cosleeper. It plays CD's with a good quality sound that you would expect from much more expensive CD players.

My son stayed inside his crib until he was 2 1/2 years old. I thought he'd never climb out.

Children's Learning Styles: From Crib to Classroom
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Crib. Baby cribs must meet federal safety standards which include:
Slats should be spaced no more than 2-3/8 inches (60 mm) apart.
All slats should be intact, not missing, or cracked.

Crib Linens
1 quilted mattress pad
2 fitted crib sheets (smaller sizes are sold for cradles, bassinets, or port-a-cribs)
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Crib Bedding
Ah, crib bedding. It's the perfect combination of comfort and cuteness. But which design, pattern, or material is best for your sweet baby's crib? The choices can be endless, but here's where to start...
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Crib: Make sure the crib is safe. The slats should be no more than 2 3/8 inches apart. Make sure the drop side works easily with just one hand.

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Crib Death - Sudden Infant Death Syndrome or SIDS. The unexpected and sudden death of an otherwise healthy infant during sleep. During an autopsy, no disease or evidence of foul play is noticed.

___ Crib slats should be placed no wider than 2 and 3/8 inches apart.
___ Make certain the crib has been put together properly and is not missing screws or bolts - to prevent it from collapsing.

The crib will be the most expensive and important piece. This is where your babe will sleep (if you’re lucky). A convertible crib is designed to transform into daybeds or full beds and will change with the age of your child.

Out of crib (OOC). Periods when the infant was out of the isolette, whether with a nurse, member of the medical staff, a parent, or other visitor. OOC was measured as a percentage of 24-hour and 12-hour day and night periods.

Beware of Crib Bumper Pads
If you're shopping for new bedding for an infant, skip the crib bumper pads. Despite being linked to accidental injury and death in a study released last fall, bumper pads remain on the market.

An organic crib mattress can benefit your baby. Before you decorate your baby's nursery, learn more about the the dangers of traditional crib mattresses and why buying a natural crib mattress is a much better choice.
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Your baby's crib is one of the most important furniture purchases you will ever make. Though guests will not be asked to sit on it, and it will not be in your home for too terribly long, it's your child's dreamland for the first year or two.

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Bottles (3 for starters, 1 new one every other month)
Disposable diapers (1 regular size pack/week)
Reusable cloth diapers (20/year, plus cleaning)
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Placement of the crib/bassinet is important. You want to be sure not to place it near the heat vent or a window. Newborns cannot regulate their own body temperature yet. A good temperature to keep baby's room at is 68-70 degrees.

3. Keep your baby's crib in the parents' room until the infant is at least 6 months of age. Studies clearly show that infants are safest when their beds are close to their mothers.

We didn't have the crib up at the time, or the changing table or anything. We didn't have any baby's clothes washed and ready to wear. We were hopelessly off-guard.

When your baby is very young, do not place soft stuffed toys or pillows in the crib with him/her. Some babies have smothered with these soft materials in the crib.
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Later in the evening while my boyfriend and his friend were putting up the crib, I went to the bathroom to find brown stuff all over my under clothes. I had lost the mucus plug. I thought for sure I was having the baby on this night.

Short Title: A good first bed for baby, good alternative to a crib.
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We bought this cot before Izzy was born as we didn't have room for her big cot in our room.

Place your baby on a firm mattress, such as in a safety-approved crib. For more information on crib safety, contact the Consumer Product Safety Commission at 800-638-2772.

Crib bars should be no more than 2 3/8 inches apart, with no cracks in the wood, and no missing bars.
A minimum rail height of 22 inches is required in a crib when the mattress is at its highest position.

___ Ensure that your crib meets national safety standards.
___ Place guards on windows and stops on all doors.
___ Make sure your baby's crib is sturdy and has no loose or missing hardware.
___ Make sure that the mattress fits snugly.

Place a firm mattress in your baby's crib or bassinet.
If your infant breastfeeds in a side-lying position, place your in his back for sleeping afterward.
If your infant is to sleep on an adult mattress, remove the mattress from the bed frame.

Make sure your crib meets current safety standards. Don't put anything in the crib that can interfere with your baby's breathing — stuffed animals, blankets, or soft pillows can fall on a baby's face and block breathing.

Don't try to hold the baby and wrestle the side of a crib down at the same time. Instead, drop the crib side before you pick up the child.
Don't bend from the waist when you lift the child.

Also called crib death or cot death. Small for gestational age: a baby whose measurements (height, weight, etc) are below the norm for its gestational age. Can be a sign of a problem with the pregnancy or the baby.

Never put twins together in a Moses basket or small crib as they may overheat in the small space.
Only place them side by side in the very early weeks when there is no danger of them rolling towards or over each other.

We put the crib up about 3 weeks ago, right after Daddy got done handcrafting and finishing Austin's bed. I think, though, these things have helped, but we should have waited to tell him when I was 6 months pregnant, rather than 4 weeks.

Some parents move their child to a twin or even larger bed as soon as a child graduates from the crib. For some children, that is fine, but others may feel intimidated or even threatened by its size.

Ask family members and friends if you can borrow a crib, changing table, toys and baby clothes. Many people are between kids or don't plan to have any more kids and are glad to let you use their baby things.
Check out secondhand and thrift shops.

What you can do: Try to get in the habit of putting your baby down in a bassinet or crib for at least one of his daytime naps, so he can start to get used to napping on his own, as opposed to in the sling or in your arms.

Your options are plenty: crib, bassinet, cradle, portable playpen, your bed, laundry basket (we're kidding about that last one).

The baby will probably be put in an incubator (an enclosed, see-through plastic crib) in the NICU. This environment allows the baby's temperature to be stabilized enough to keep it warm without needing to be wrapped up in blankets.

But here are some baby gifts that will be highly appreciated by any parent: diapers, wipes, burp cloths -- quilted cloth diapers are the best, and make great dust cloths down the road, blankets, terrycloth covers for changing-table pads, crib sheets, ...

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Place the baby's crib or bassinet in a room with lots of natural light. Babies in a hospital do better and have less jaundice if placed near a window. Bilirubin lights used in the hospital work on the same principle as sunlight.

It is the time to start deciding upon the baby’s name and prepare his/her room, cot, crib and other essentials.
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Reading is a lifetime activity but the habit starts in the crib with parents or relatives reading to infants and continues on as children learn to read by themselves.
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In addition, remove all fluffy bedding, quilts, sheepskins, stuffed animals, and pillows from the crib to ensure that your baby doesn't get tangled in them or suffocate.

Paint the nursery (and keep Mom away from the fumes), put the crib together and have fun preparing for this new little family member with Mom. These are a few of the things you can do for your baby while Mom is gestating.

The umbilical cord is cut, and your baby is handed to a healthcare provider, who will take him or her to a small, warmly lit plastic crib, called a warmer. Then your baby is cleaned and dried, and eventually checked by a pediatrician.

Halo Innovations: is dedicated to creating a safer sleeping environment for infants with products like the SleepSack(TM) wearable blanket and Active-Airflow(TM) crib mattress. Recommended by First Candle/SIDS Alliance.

Little pillows made just for newborns will help the baby to stay in the correct sleeping position, and a beautiful mobile with soft music may help to lull the baby too sleep. Purchase a crib that will be easily moved in case you want to change where ...

Impress her by washing and putting away all the baby clothes people have been giving you. Or impress her by putting the crib together. Want to really impress her? Bring home a few new items for the layette.

Somewhere to sleep - a crib, cot or pram top, plus bedding (but not pillows, as they're not safe until your baby's one year old).
Feeding equipment - if you're bottlefeeding you'll need bottles, formula and sterilising equipment.

Smoking has been found to be a risk factor in sudden infant death syndrome (crib death). Allergies in children multiply over those of children not exposed to smoke in the home or in the car.
Children just plain lose with smoking.

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