Safety Baby Pillows
It is normal for adults to sleep with pillows under our head. You might then assume that the same thing follows with babies. In reality, even without pillows, babies can sleep normally and soundly. Moreover, they can have a very comfortable sleep even without the pillows. What’s more, it would be safer for them to sleep without pillows on their cribs.. So even if you have the pillow from crib beddings, experts all agree that you should not use them until the baby is on his toddler stage. The reason is that it may increase the change of your baby suffocating from the pillow if his face accidentally end up on it.
So when is it safe for the baby to use pillow? Well, doctors recommend that you should not have your baby use pillow unless he is already out on the crib and is already sleeping on his toddler bed. In other words, the baby should at least be two years old. And that is if you want. Even toddler do not really need to use pillows yet. Even without the pillow, they can sleep quite comfortably. Most often, baby pillows are just something that provides the toddler with security, like the teddy bear.
According to some pediatric sleep experts, infants, toddlers and even small kids do not really need pillows. The fact is that the baby is fine even without the pillow, even though the parents think that they provide additional comfort to their children. Nevertheless, expert recommend to parents who really want to initiate their baby to the use of pillow, is never to use the feather pillow. This is because these feather pillows are too soft and it may only smother the child if his head shrinks into it. Then they also usually set off allergies.
And for those parents who really want to introduce pillows even when their baby is still in the crib, the experts recommend to use only pillows that are the size of airline pillows. Once more, these baby pillows must be the soft and not the firm types. Another important thing that you must remember is to introduce the pillow on naptimes first. This way you can monitor your child’s movement and how he sleeps with it. If you finally think that he would be safe with it, then you may now use the baby pillow regularly.Then you may now use the pillow regularly if you finally think he will be safe with it.