What Harm Can A Baby Pillow Cause
It is natural that you will want to lavish the new baby that you have been expecting for many months, with all kinds of cute and cuddly gifts, to welcome your baby home. A wide variety of discount and department stores carry a huge selection of baby items. 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. You are assuming it is ok to buy several of these items, because they are being sold in many of the stores you have been shopping in, right? Unfortunately, this is not the case. Putting a baby pillow in with your newborn, is not ok, and it could even cause harm or death if you chose to do so. The use of baby pillows or stuffed animals can end up being deadly, even if your adorable baby sleeps in a bassinet or baby bed or his own.
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. Your newborns skin could become irritated very easily from the various dyes and fabrics that are used to make a baby pillow.
When many parents think of the comfort of their bundle of joy, they are only trying to be helpful when they buy a baby pillow. 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. The bottom line is, there are too many risks that are involved when you put a pillow close to a baby that is under the age of two. Even at two years of age, some toddlers are not ready for a baby pillow. 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.
December 24th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
Baby sleep pillows should be stuffed firmly so that when the toddler who lays his or head down on it, will not sink into it. There are many choices out there to choose from. You can personalize it if you make it yourself. Just purchase a travel pillow and make a new cover for it out of some cute fabric with designs a kid would like on it. You will find a lot of cute material you can choose from.
December 28th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
But that the baby pillows are harmful is something they simply refuse to believe. Therefore something that is so innocent looking as a baby pillow is still victimizing many children today. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome or SIDS is the main cause of fatalities under that age is something that the parents should know. SIDS is associated with suffocation, strangulation and rebreathing. In most of these cases, the baby pillow plays a very important role.
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January 8th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
This position greatly lessens the risk of SIDS or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome from occurring. For this reason, the use of a sleep positioner along with a baby pillow can be quite effective. Sleep positioners are primarily intended to keep babies lying down in the “safe” position through the night. In addition, these also help the baby sleep safer and more secure, and along with the baby pillow ensures a good night’s sleep.
Many in the medical community are of the opinion that the use of a baby pillow is not necessarily in the child’s best interests.
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March 2nd, 2009 at 10:05 pm
Like the teddy bear, baby pillows just provide security to the toddler.
According to some pediatric sleep experts, infants, toddlers and even small kids do not really need pillows. The parents might think that the baby pillow will provide the kids with additional comfort when they sleep but in reality, the baby is fine without the pillow. 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.