A Baby Pillow Can Be A Disaster Waiting To Happen
If you are pregnant and anxiously awaiting the birth of your new baby, you more than likely have also been waiting for months and months to lavish your precious infant with all kinds of cute and cuddly welcome home gifts. You literally have an endless selection available to you, in a wide variety of stores. You have so much to choose from in adorable looking stuffed animals, and of course the perfect baby pillow you would like to purchase for their bed. It must be ok to buy pillows for babies, since so many of your favorite stores carry them, right? This is most definitely NOT the case. Not only is doing such a thing not ok, it can be very dangerous, and can even be fatal to put a stuffed animal or baby pillow in the same bed with your newborn or infant baby. It does not matter if your adorable baby sleeps in his or her very own baby bed or in a bassinet, putting any type of pillow or other item such as a furry little stuffed animal can actually be deadly.
A variety of things are used in the making of these pillows, and any one of them could be harmful for your baby. Every newborn baby has skin that is extremely sensitive. The dyes and fabrics that are used to make a baby pillow can not only irritate your baby’s skin, but they can many times also cause mild or extreme allergic reactions.
Many parents who buy a baby pillow for their little bundle of joy, are only trying to be helpful, and think of the comfort of their baby. The best thing that you can do to be helpful to your new baby, is to educate yourself on the variety of safety issues that can mean the difference of life and death when it comes to the well being of your baby. To put it simply, there are far too many risks that outweigh any good that can come from putting a pillow close to your baby until they have reached two years old. Some toddlers are not ready for a baby pillow even when they reach the age of two. Many researchers advise against the use of pillows for your little ones until they have reached their toddler years of two years old, and they are no longer sleeping in a baby bed.