Thursday, June 11, 2009
Bumps or bumper?
So I'm having mommy issues. My little T is now rolling, but only back to stomach. She is getting stuck rolling back onto her back. She looks like a turtle struggling for dear life. Last night I found her with an arm outside of the crib between mattress and bumper. According to "experts" you should remove bumper once your child rolls to avoid suffocation. But in doing more extensive research I found that over the last 20 years, 22 children have died. My husband says I'm overly paranoid but what if that 1% is our child? So we are now on the hunt for mesh round bumper, organic would be great but at this point we will take what we can. He is more worried about contusions than suffocation. He checked on her last night (her first night without bumper) and her legs were in between bars. What are we to do? I should have settled for an ordinary crib, but how could I, I have an extraordinary child.
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hey jess! i too was aware of the whole bumper situation, and i ignored it in favor of Maisie NOT getting bumps on her head, arms or legs form the crib. not having researched it, i thought bumpers would be safer AFTER they could roll over, because if she couldn't breathe or something, at least she could move away by herself! anyway we finally did take off the bumpers because maisie was using them to stand on when she woke up!
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