The baby's crib is maybe the most important piece of furniture that you need in your baby's room.
You should consider that in their early years, the babies have the most intense needs.
The room of your baby must have a design with the view of creating the environment of quiet and tenderness.
The most common furniture needed in our baby's room can include crib, wardrobe, baby changing table or chest of drawers.
Nevertheless, the baby furniture should also contain a shelf, toy box, cradle, and mattress together with some accessories.
The changing tables are endowed with safety straps in order to prevent baby's fall.
It is important to install the changing tables in places with less traffic and healthy air.
You should pay big attention when choosing the baby furniture in order to ensure protection to your little one.
You should overlook the baby and teach her/him safe habits in order to make sure she/he does not come up with any creative, but same time unsafe ways to use the furniture! Of course, there more styles and designs of baby furniture, making the choice extremely difficult for any parent! Two important features you should consider first are safety and durability.
The baby furniture should fit with the size of the nursery room, so that imagine how the baby furniture will look in your available space.
You would not like an overcrowded baby room! The baby's cribs are manufactured in many styles, colours or themes for all the options; there are also the so-called "green" baby nurseries, the organic baby bedding.
As mini-cribs, you could choose some sets of portable crib bedding in order to make it more safe and comfortable.
You have the option to complete the decor of baby room with useful nursery accessories as nursery lighting, window valances and drapes, diaper shelves, rugs, blankets, pillows, musical mobiles, baby rockers, nursery hampers, plus various nursery storage units.
You should consider the choosing of the baby's crib an important decision.
Remember that your little one will sleep in it for her/his first 2-3 years of life, when it comes the time to change it with a full sized bed.
There are more types of cribs, like standard (with single/double drop side), convertible (from a standard crib to a toddler bed), canopy (have four posts on the corners of the bed, an elegant look) and round (with a single drop side).
When you buy a baby's crib, please consider some safety features to look: 1) Distances between the slats must be no larger than 2-3/8 inches.
2) The distance of the drop sides unto the mattress support: when lowered, the drop sides must be to at least 9 inches above; when raised, the drop sides must be to at least 26 inches above; 4) Crib mattress fits with no more than two fingers width between crib side and mattress.
5) Locking mechanism for secure drop side.
6) The crib should not have loose or peeling paint, rough, corners, edges or splinters.
Optionally, you should choose some attachable toys that fit to the crab's railings; musical mobiles provide entertainment, stimulation and help developing coordination.
Sleep positioning will help your baby to stay on his or her back or side.
Teething rails made of plastic can be attached to the rails, preventing your child from chewing the wood.
Avoid to buy the second hand baby furniture crib! They may contain blurred paint, have splinters, slats that are too far apart and many other dangers.
They could appear safety problems that could put the baby in danger! Always consider the safety of the baby, the durability and reliability of the furniture, before anything else!
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