When in the house the kid appears, before new parents there is a question of acquisition of a crib. Many do not even imagine what requirements the furniture intended for the baby has to meet. As the bed is necessity, it is desirable to imagine well what has to be the device for a dream and rest of the newborn.
The bed is that place where the baby for half a year will spend about 80% of day as children of the first months of life spend many hours in a dream.
Main requirements
It is necessary to select a bed for the kid according to those criteria which are responsible for safety of the child. At the same time it is worth to remember also about conveniences, you should approach several times in a night a bed and to take the kid on hands. Therefore when choosing it is necessary to consider the following requirements:
- the bed has to have the safe form without acute angles, otherwise the baby can be traumatized; - the wooden bed has to be made of quality wood with an ideal varnish covering as the growing-up kid gnaws everything that comes to hand; - walls and a bottom of a bed have to have small gleams, it is necessary for good ventilation; - width between side levels has to be not less and no more than 7-8 cm, otherwise the head, the handle or a leg of the child can get stuck between levels; - the bed has to have two levels of height, the lower level is required when the child grows up and will begin to rise on legs, it will protect it from loss from a bed.
Review of models
Choosing a bed, it is necessary to pay attention to what it was made of. Pediatricians recommend the beds for babies made of eco-friendly material, for example, of an alder, birches or pines. Wooden parts of a bed have to be well ground and covered with safe varnish. Having decided on material, it is necessary to choose model. Now the following models of cribs are presented at the potrebitelny market: 1. The wooden bed equipped with wheels is the most widespread option. Some models are equipped with runners or drawers. 2. Cradle beds on wheels have the small sizes, it is easy to move them about the room. They are safe and reliable to certain age. When the kid grows up, he needs a bed of other sizes.3. The transforming bed equipped with boxes and regiments is easily transformed to a bed for the preschool child therefore often it is bought for growth. Considering the main requirements, everyone defines for itself(himself) what bed it is better to prefer, the main thing that to the child and mom was comfortable. Besides the bed it is also necessary to pick up correctly and a children's mattress. Experts recommend to buy not too rigid and not too soft mattress as the skeleton of the baby just begins to be formed.