How to Choose the Right Baby Bedding

It’s critical to have the correct baby nursery bedding to keep your infant secure and warm. Find out what to look for in baby bedding.

Baby Bedding

Because babies can’t regulate their body temperatures, crib bedding is very vital. To keep them from being too cold or too hot at night, you’ll need to use the appropriate baby sleeping bed set.

In their cribs, babies should not have loose baby nursery bedding. Blankets, cushions, comforters, and plush animals all fall into this category. Instead, cover the mattress with a basic fitted sheet.

Babies should sleep in footed sleepers with zippers or buttons. Young babies enjoy being swaddled, so make sure to wrap your baby firmly before going to bed. You can replace the swaddling blanket with a sleep sack, which is a zipped sleeping bag that will keep your baby warm as he or she grows bigger. Make sure these sleeping bags don’t have a hood, though. Also, do not purchase sleeping bags that are too large. Although it may be tempting to get a larger size so that the baby can grow into it, this is a bad idea because the baby can slide down into the bag.

What Type of Mattress?

Mattresses should be firm because your infant does not like to sleep on a soft surface. Also, make sure it doesn’t sag and fits snugly into the cot.

It is necessary for the cover to be waterproof. You should not use a hand-me-down mattress unless you know where it comes from.

Avoid mattresses with ventilation holes. These are difficult to keep clean, thus they should be avoided.

Green Bedding

Babies sleep for at least 60% of their first year, inhaling whatever is exhaled by her mattress, sheets, pillow, comforter, pad, and other well-made bed accessories. This fact alone has aided the start of major changes in the bedding industry, with a shift toward natural, chemical-free fabrics. As a result, the environment will be healthier. Greener bedding may be more expensive, but it will last considerably longer and wear better. The latest on non-toxic (or at least less-toxic) mattresses, linens, blankets, and pillows may be found here.

Mattresses

We’ve all spent our childhoods sleeping on mattresses made of ecologically unfriendly, off-gassing petrochemical-based synthetics such as polyester and polyurethane foam, as well as stain repellants, flame retardants, and other breathable pollutants. Still, if you’re making a green bed for your child, the mattress should come first.

The greening 

To establish flame-retardant barriers in their mattresses, several commercial producers have begun to use naturally flame-resistant fibres such as wool rather than chemicals. Wool also helps to regulate body temperature, resulting in a better night’s sleep. Splurge on a true eco-mattress, which is packed with cotton and wool padding over steel coils, or natural latex from rubber trees, if you want to avoid synthetics entirely. Latex is the firmest alternative, with anti-allergenic and mold-resistant features. Plus, you can pass down that crib mattress numerous times before repurposing it as a floor pad, making up for its higher price tag if you plan on having additional children in the future.

The greenest

• A mattress made from organic cotton and wool that is environmentally friendly – look for the Pure Grow label to verify if the wool was produced in a way that prioritizes sustainability.

Linens

Easy-care Polyester and poly-cotton blends are a thing of the past; currently, everyone wants 100% cotton bedding for their children and themselves. However, because cotton is frequently treated with formaldehyde to reduce wrinkling, you might want to look for chemical-free linens. Traditional styles for kids can be found on allergy-friendly websites; if you’re looking for something more stylish than rabbits and bears (or soft pink and blue), check out some of the stores that cater to hip parents – Modern Mini and Duc Duc’s both carry Boodalee and Kuku nest formaldehyde-free cotton sets. However, this does not imply that cotton is completely healthy – at least not for the environment.

Cotton is one of the most heavily sprayed and treated crops, thus becoming organic is the only way to go one step greener.

The greening 

Organic baby clothing, manufactured from supersoft unsprayed, untreated cotton, is suddenly ubiquitous — you’ll find it in Walmart and Babies “R” Us, as well as eco-friendly websites. The knit variety will stretch over your thicker-than-vinyl wool puddle pads after being cleaned in hot water. [a link to the pads] Grow Eco Bedding features costly modern patterns on organic cotton that may be color-matched; Stokke organic also has some fun graphics. New ranges of attractive organic bedding from young design companies like Argington and Q Collection Junior are also available.

The greenest

• Unbleached and undyed organic cotton buds that are naturally cream, green, and brown are used in the Natures Purest line at Babies “R” Us; another BRU line, the very bunnyish Bunny Meadow, uses a deeper palette of natural hues.

• Check out the BambooBaby sheet sets, which are made of super-breathable, naturally antibacterial bamboo jersey and are an eco-favorite.

Blankets, pillows, bumpers and pads

On your toddler bed, a fluffy cloud of polyester-filled cushion, comforter, and bumper looks fantastic (though the fluffiness tends to vanish after multiple machine washes). The eco-friendly versions aren’t as puffy, but they have their own appeal, similar to that of an antique teddy bear. They’re also ideal for babies, who shouldn’t sleep in clouds for their own safety.

The greening 

There’s a whole world of green baby options, including bumpers filled with organic cotton or wool and pillows stuffed with finely shredded rubber; recycled-fleece-filled comforters, organic felted wool or cotton-and-rubber puddle pads (at Good Night Naturals); and wool or cotton blankets (everywhere). Abundant Earth also sells colorful baby and twin-size blankets fashioned from recycled blue denim and wool sweaters.

The greenest

• Easy-to-clean versions of the above: Dream Soft Bedware’s machine-washable organic cotton bumper pad and wool puddle pads are also relatively new to the eco scene.

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