audys
10-21-2004, 01:19 AM
Dear Denise and Alan,
I wanted to mention a crib item that I ran across - my DS started to press his face into our crib bumpers at 3 months of age so we removed them. Once he started to get limbs stuck between the slats on the crib at 5 months, we became desperate to find a way to keep him contained. The crib tents require the mattress to be lowered all of the way so weren't a good alternative when he was small.
We've been using the Crib Shield system (sold at Walmart, etc) - http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?cat=86325&dept=5427&product_id=2233933&path=0:5427:86325:136828
This has been an incredibly useful, inexpensive crib bumper alternative. I wish we knew about it earlier - we would have just bypassed the crib bumper. We now have a second one that we use when we travel - it's so easy, safe and works well.
Our DS also had surgery on his head at 4 months of age (for a prematurely fused growth plate) and we had a hard time finding a way to elevate one side of his mattress - we now have the Baby Be Safe sheets with built-in wedge and plan to use this in the future for those ear infections that will come in the future, etc.
You probably know about these already but I wanted to mention them since I haven't seen them in "the book" and wish more parents could learn from our trial and error. Thanks,
Audrey, mother to Graham
http://lilypie.com/baby1/050210/3/15/1/+10/.png (http://lilypie.com)
I wanted to mention a crib item that I ran across - my DS started to press his face into our crib bumpers at 3 months of age so we removed them. Once he started to get limbs stuck between the slats on the crib at 5 months, we became desperate to find a way to keep him contained. The crib tents require the mattress to be lowered all of the way so weren't a good alternative when he was small.
We've been using the Crib Shield system (sold at Walmart, etc) - http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?cat=86325&dept=5427&product_id=2233933&path=0:5427:86325:136828
This has been an incredibly useful, inexpensive crib bumper alternative. I wish we knew about it earlier - we would have just bypassed the crib bumper. We now have a second one that we use when we travel - it's so easy, safe and works well.
Our DS also had surgery on his head at 4 months of age (for a prematurely fused growth plate) and we had a hard time finding a way to elevate one side of his mattress - we now have the Baby Be Safe sheets with built-in wedge and plan to use this in the future for those ear infections that will come in the future, etc.
You probably know about these already but I wanted to mention them since I haven't seen them in "the book" and wish more parents could learn from our trial and error. Thanks,
Audrey, mother to Graham
http://lilypie.com/baby1/050210/3/15/1/+10/.png (http://lilypie.com)