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Facts on Baby Pillow
For us adults, sleeping with pillows under our head are something that is normal. You might then assume that the same thing follows with babies. Well, the truth of the matter is, babies can sleep soundly and normally even without pillows. In fact, they do not need pillows to have a very comfortable sleep. What's more, it would be safer for them to sleep without pillows on their cribs..So even if you got the pillow from the set of crib beddings, until your baby reaches toddler stage, experts all recommend that you do not use the pillow. 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 to let your baby use pillow? Well, according to the recommendations of doctors, unless your baby is out on the crib and is sleeping on his toddler bed, you should not have your baby use a pillow. In other words, the baby should at least be two years old. If you really want to, that is. Even toddler do not really need to use pillows yet. Even without the pillow, they can sleep quite comfortably. Like the teddy bear, baby pillows just provide security to the toddler.
Some pediatric sleep experts say that pillows are not really needed by infants, toddlers and even small children. 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, for parents who really want to introduce their baby to pillow, these experts recommend staying away from the soft feather pillows. This is because these feather pillows are too soft and it may only smother the child if his head shrinks into it. Aside from that, they may also set off allergies.
Experts also recommend soft and small size pillow, similar to airline pillow, to those parents who insist on introducing pillow to their children even if they are still in the crib. Once more, these baby pillows must be the soft and not the firm types. One thing that you should also keep in mind is that you must introduce the use of 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.
