Baby Crib Mattress Safety Guidelines
For New Moms
Safe Cozy Sleep For Your Little One
Crib mattress safety is an important aspect of baby protection in the nursery room.
The crib is the one place that you will leave your young baby completely unattended. It's important that it be 150 percent safe.
An ill-fitting, or soft baby crib mattress is one of the things that can compromise the well-being of your baby in her crib.
Her head can become entrapped between the side of the crib and the mattress resulting in suffocation.
You can prevent this by observing the following infant safety guidelines...
Crib Mattress Safety Guidelines
- The baby crib mattress should be firm with squared corners. Soft mattresses pose a suffocation hazard, and gaps between the corners of the mattress and the crib can cause your baby to become entrapped.
- The crib mattress should fit snugly (less than two finger-widths between the mattress and crib sides.)
- The baby crib mattress should measure at least 27 1/4 inches by 57 5/8 inches. The depth should be no more than 6 inches. Babies can suffocate if they become wedged between the crib mattress and the sides of the crib.
- Remove all plastic covering. Never use plastic covering as a crib mattress protection. This poses a suffocation risk.
- Do not put extra mattresses in a portable baby crib. Babies can become wedged between them causing suffocation, and toddlers will use them to climb out of the crib.
- Observe proper baby crib safety standards when choosing and setting up your baby's crib.
- Always put baby to sleep on her back - this has been shown to dramatically reduce the risk of SIDS. Read about safe sleep practices for SIDS prevention here.
- Don't put your baby to sleep on a waterbed, sofa, soft mattress, pillow or other soft surface.
- Use safe baby bedding.
- Send in your product registration card so that you will be notified if your baby crib mattress is recalled.
- Check out our crib recall page for the latest crib recall news including mattress and bedding recalls.
- Consider an organic crib mattress for increased peace of mind.
And that's it - except to say that crib mattress safety is of paramount importance to baby protection in the crib. He is so precious and fragile. Please give him the environment he deserves so that he can sleep safely.
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The above infant safety information is presented by Creative Baby Nursery Rooms for the purpose of educating mothers about baby crib mattress safety issues.
This information is accurate and complete to the best of our knowledge but we make no guarantees in this regard.
We believe that the information provided on this site can help prevent baby crib accidents, however, an infant's safety is the responsibility of its caregiver alone.
Creative Baby Nursery Rooms accepts no responsibility for any baby crib accident, which may occur as a result of any information on this site.
Synthetic baby crib mattresses are not only made from low-quality materials such as PVC, polyester and foam but are typically coated with flame-retardant chemicals (PBDEs) that can compromise infant safety and health.
