Buying Baby Bedding with Care: Vital Facts to Consider
You can easily design your whole nursery around your crib set. You’ve decided on exactly what you want, and can see the completed nursery right there in your head. You’ve planned even the tiniest details, right down to the exact arrangement of the toys on the dresser. But is that all you need to worry about? When choosing baby bedding there are a lot of things to consider, so make your choice carefully, and keep these things in mind:
- Choose cotton flannels or knits (or wovens with a high thread count), but make sure they’re not blends - go for 100% cotton. This is to ensure that the bedding is both soft and breathable.
- You are not going to have time for hand-washing your crib set, so be sure to buy something that is machine-washable.
- To prevent the risk of suffocation, make sure that the crib sheets fits the mattress snugly. If your sheets don’t fit as well as you’d like, but a set of elastic straps that go under the mattress and make the crib sheet fit more tightly.
- Before buying a bedding set, decide if you really need one. The American Academy of pediatrics recommends against unnecessary bedding that is included in most bedding sets (like crib bumpers or quilts). Buying individual pieces can therefore make a lot more sense than buying a set. You might be worried that your bedding won’t match, but look at it as an opportunity to get more creative instead.
- And lastly, when you’ve taken care of all the more important concerns, consider the look of the bedding, and how it will coordinate with the rest of the nursery.
Buying bedding within your budget can be a concern, but take into account that you may use it longer than you think. If you are using a convertible crib then you can use the same sheets from birth through the end of the toddler years. If you think your family will continue to grow, it’s a very smart decision to buy a gender neutral crib set like the Vintage baby crib bedding set, so that you don’t have to keep buying new bedding. If you are sure there will be no more kids, however, then buying high-quality (and expensive!) baby bedding is not so important. In any case, keep extra sets of sheets on hand, in case of emergency!





