Baby Furniture Blogs

This is the beginning of your baby’s life. Give your baby a healthy and safe start. The baby crib is the most important piece of furniture in any nursery. It is the place where your young baby will spend most of baby’s time. Even newborn babies are social. They love to be touched, held cuddled, cooed to, and smiled at. When socialization time is over and sleepy time arrives, place baby on a firm mattress, in baby’s high quality correctly assembled baby crib. Buy a high quality baby crib with an included well fitting, healthy firm mattress at: www.developingbabyfurniture.com

Make certain that the baby crib has been prepared for safe sleeping in order to help prevent S.I.D.S. (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome). There can be many other causitive factors in this syndrome. However, remove pillows, quilts, comforters, sheepskins, toys, soft toys, and other soft products from the baby crib. Consider using a sleeper outfit with no other covering as an alternative to blankets. If using a blanket, comforter blanket, or coverlet that wraps around the sides and under the mattress, place baby with feet near the foot of the baby crib. Tuck the coverlet around each side of the mattress and under the mattress, reaching only as high as baby’s chest. Make sure your baby’s head remains uncovered during sleep. Never place baby on a waterbed, sofa, soft mattress, pillow or other such surface to sleep. Keep the mattress at the lowest level. Keep the baby crib sides completely up.

Place the baby crib in a safe place in the room. Do not place baby’s crib eiher near a window, a radiator, heat and cooling vents, in the sun or too near a wall. If you live in a house or an apartment built before 1978, a lead abatement professional needs to check any painted wall for lead. Your child can get lead poisoning if baby breathes lead dust or fumes or swallows anything with lead in it. Lead poisoning in babies and older children can cause learning disabilities, hyperactivity and other neurological problems. I fthere is lead paint in your home, the lead paint needs to be completely removed by a lead abatement professional or covered with an approved sealant. Make sure no babies, older children or pets are in the home during the lead paint removal process. Once the lead paint has been removed, the walls can either be painted with latex, plastic-based or enamel paint or covered with water-resistant wallpaper.

While we’re thinking of painting and wall coverings, we’re reminded of baby bedding and the choice of baby bedding sets. Attractive fabrics such as cottons, synthetics, chenille, faux furs, velvet, and silk with visually stimulating colors and patterns are available for baby. There is a choice of non-toxic baby crib color finishes. All of these features enable the color coordinating and decoration of baby’s room. Since mother spends so much time in baby’s room, mother needs to have a theme and colors that she enjoys. There are rectangle baby cribs, round baby cribs and heart shaped baby cribs that are an adaptation of round baby cribs and have no corners. Winnie-the-Pooh round baby cribs, round baby cribs and rectangle baby cribs with hand, carving, round baby cribs with round legs, injection molded Lexan durable hard plastic dura cribs, round baby cribs with canopies, hardwood baby cribs with no formaldehyde and non-toxic finishes. There are also multiple birth cribs developed by a mother of twins. These high quality baby bedding sets and baby cribs are available at our website: www.developingbabyfurniture.com

Thanks to high-tech developments, we know something about twin and other multiple birth babies’ interaction in utero. each twin is constantly interacting with the other mate in utero just as the other multiple birth babies interact in utero. Twins have a special capacity for supporting each other because of the very early common intrauterine experiences, just as the other multiple birth children. Co-regulatory activities sen in preterm twins during co-bedding (placing twins in the same baby bed) include moving closer, touching, holding, hugging, rooting, sucking on each other, smiling and being awake at the same time. Placing two (or more) growing, developing babies in the same crib can cause entanglement in tubing and other medical equipment, crowding and can spread disease. Multiple birth cribs for twins, triplets, quadruplets and quintuplets fasten together. The twin, triplet and other multiple birth babies can see each other closely, smile at each other, move closer, reach out and touch each other, engage in other socialization and have space to exercise large and small muscles as they grow and develop in their baby cribs. These safe and healthy multiple birth baby cribs create environments are conducive to healthy multiple birth baby interactive socialization and small baby play with each other and with mother. the multiple birth cribs were designed and developed by a mother of twins. We sell these healthy safe multiple birth baby cribs at www.developingbabyfurniture.com Contact us for specifics regarding multiple birth baby cribs for larger groups of multiple birth babies. We’ll help you get the multiple birth cribs you need.

As baby grows, baby wants to do more exploring. this is baby’s business of growing up. It is necessary for baby to learn about baby’s new world. This is how baby’s cognitive abilities, socialization skills and musculature grow and develop. Carry baby from room to room in an infant seat. When baby can push up with baby’s feet on the suface under the infant seat, baby has outgrown the baby seat. Always use restraining straps and watch baby carefully, even when strapped in. Do not place the infant seat on soft, unstable surfaces. The infant seat needs a wide, sturdy base for stability. stay within arm’s reach of baby when the infant seat is on tables, counters or other furniture. Never turn your back. These seats slide more easily on slippery surfaces such as glass table tops. Don’t let baby fall. If the infant seat does not have non-skid feet, attach rough surfaced adhesive strips to the underside. Make certain an infant seat has good sturdy construction. never place the infant seat on soft surfaces such as beds or sofas. We don’t want baby tipping over in anything, and we don’t want baby to fall. The infant seat is not a car seat.

We cannot begin to list or inform you of all the safety factors that need attention for baby’s health and safety. There are baby books and other resources with this kind of information about: Keeping small objects away from baby’s reach; baby and child safe toys; how to make baby’s room safe for baby; and the entire home environment safe for baby.  Get gates, plugs for all electrical outlets, safety latches for cabinests and door as well as much more. Be sure to read and research home safety for your adorable baby. Always keep high chairs, play pens, infant seats and walkers away from stores, windows, work counters, radiators and furnaces. Baby can suddenly develop in unexpected ways that are more grown up. Every baby develops differently. Babies are different sizes also. Everything in developmental information is approximate, so watch baby and be prepared for the standing baby. Our baby cribs at www.developingbabyfurniture.com have adjustable mattress bases.

The crib mattress support always needs to be set so baby cannot climb out of the baby crib. Set the baby crib mattress support at the highest setting for newborns. Around four to six months of age, baby is able to push up on baby’s hands and knees. Use the middle mattress base support if baby is not too tall at this time. Set the baby crib mattress support at the lowest level when baby is tall and pulling up or has begun to stand up in the crib at approximately eight to twelve months of age. Our sturdy baby cribs at www.developingbabyfurniture.com have these and other great features. Our baby cribs have non-toxic finishes for the teething baby who might chew on the crib. A teething baby could chew on small animal toys and swallow an eye or fur. Care is needed when purchasing toys. An animal toy with embroidered features might be a better selection for baby. Never leave stuffed animals or other toys in baby’s crib when baby is sleeping. Even when awake, large animal tos could fall at any time and pin down a child’s face. Don’t let real pets such as a cat or a dog get into or sleep in baby’s crib with baby. don’t place a comforter in a baby cirb until baby is at least a year old, unless the comforter will cover the clild to the chest and fold well under the crib mattress. A quilt, comforter blanket or comforter coverlet needs to wrap around and under the crib mattress while covering baby up to baby’s chest when baby’s feet are placed near the foot of the crib, or use it to swaddle baby for carrying about. Cover baby with it when baby is about a year or so in age. When baby can roll over, turn baby’s head to the side so baby faces to the left and then to the right another time. Change the side toward which baby faces, frequently. This prevents baby’s head from becoming flat in the back. Our rectangle baby cribs and round baby cribs at www.developingbabyfurniture.com meet or exceed the safety standards, in every respect, set by the U.S.C.P.S.C. (U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission).

A fun thing to do is take baby out for a stroll. Don’t leave a child in a stroller to sleep. An infant could wriggle free even in a stroller with the backrest reclined to the carriage position. Close the opening between hand rest or baby’s grab bar and seat when using a stroller in the reclining position, so baby cannot slip out through a leg opening. If a stroller has a shopping basket, it needs to be low on the back of the stroller and in front of or directly over the rear wheels. Hanging pocketbooks or shopping bags over mother’s handle may cause tipping. Always secure the seatbelt. Keep children away from the folding mechanism. Never allow children to use baby’s stroller as a plaything. Never use a pillow, folded quilt or blanket as a mattress in a stroller or carriage. The firm surface is healthy for baby’s growing back. Never leave baby alone in a stroller. Make sure that the brake is convenient to operate and actually locks the wheels when shopping for a stroller. Make certain the stroller will not tilt over backwards with slight pressure on the back. A canopy on the stroller helps protect baby from sunburn during the winter, on overcast days and of course during intense sunlight.

A hat with a with a nice wide brim, baby sunscreen lotion, appropriate clothing, a baby bottle of water, sunglasses recommended by baby’s doctor and the sunshade up and extended out on the stroller help protect baby from the sun. Take baby out when the sun is less hot. We don’t want baby to be too hot or too cold when baby goes out in the stroller or jogger. Winter dress could include a hooded down filled coat and pants set, mittens, sun protection and that baby bottle of water. In some other countries, a stroller can include an attractive large envelope-like down filled baby bunting that covers baby’s feet and reaches chest high, with side buttons or a zipper. Baby slides right in wearing baby’s hooded down jacket and pants set. talk to baby about the things baby is seeing. What is more fun than watching a four to six month old baby out in the stroller, waving arms and hands with glee, while sticking baby’s tongue out to catch falling snowflakes? Baby loves to go out-of-doors exploring in the stroller every day at about the same time. Doing this activity at about the same time every day helps baby have a structured day and gives baby something to look forward to. We all need to remember that mother needs a mother’s day out at least one day each week. Mother needs adult socialization while baby is at home exploring and napping in baby’s safe baby crib with the supervision of mother’s helper. Mother comes back refreshed.