Baby Pillows and Blankets
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by: frankwarehouse
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My first child happily slept in her crib until she was almost 3. The arrival of her baby brother meant we had to move her to a normal bed. While she was in the crib, we did not have to worry about things like baby pillows and blankets. She wore a sleep sack and was snug and happy. The sleep sack prevented her from crawling out of the crib, because she couldnt swing her legs up. I dont know that she would have anyway, as she was so happy in there. It was an easy transition when we moved her to a big bed. After getting her used to the big bed with a few naps, we transitioned her to nighttime too. It was a full size bed in a beautiful wooden frame. We ordered a cute girly comforter and grabbed a couple adult sized pillows. We did not bother with one of those little baby pillows. We went straight to normal pillows.
My son was an entirely different story. He learned how to unzip his sleep sack shortly after his first birthday. Swinging his leg up on the rail became a regular exercise. He was happy to just do that exercise for months and months. Until one night, when he climbed out of the crib entirely and walked to greet me at the door. We immediately took the crib mattress out of the crib and set it up on the floor.
Moving him to a bed presented all these obstacles that we did not have to deal with when we moved our daughter to a bed. It was a rough transition, because he was so young. He wasnt even 2 years old yet. So he would not hurt himself, we had to take a lot of things out of his room. We also put a gate on the door, which was the best advice we received. He was so stubborn that for the first couple days, he would fall asleep sitting in the middle of the wood floor of his room. It took about a week to make the transition.
When we finally got him comfortable in his new bed routine, the advice from well meaning people starting coming in. "He is too young to be out of his crib." "It is dangerous." "Do not use pillows and bedding." Wait. What? He is old enough to crawl out of a crib, but not old enough to use a pillow? Can he use a tiny airline baby pillow? So I hopped online to check out the age recommendations. Children under 2 years of age should NOT use a pillow or big blanket. Once a child is 2 or they move to a big bed, you can introduce them then.
I decided to introduce one of those baby pillows to the mix. It was so small, like an airline pillow, and I hardly saw the point. It did not look like our pillows, so I think my son thought it was something else. I think the need to put a pillow and bedding on his bed was due to my own notion of what a bed is supposed to look like. We finally put pillows and a comforter on his bed after about a month. He loved sitting up with the pillows and snuggling like he did in our bed. And he actually used the pillows for his head, so he was happy to have a normal pillow instead of that baby pillow.
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