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Infant Bedding Theme – The Magic Of A Sleeping Baby’s Crib

05 September 2010 | Written by Baby Cherish

The most beautiful sight to your eyes is the beauty of your little baby sleeping peacefully. The silence, the quiet, and their peaceful face. Choosing the right infant bedding theme can take this beautiful sight and make it magical.

The fun in choosing an infant bedding theme is found in all the variety. The choices of beautiful styles is almost unlimited.

You can choose a subtle pink and white piquet which makes a classic bed for a little girl. You might go from subtle to wild for your little boy and have sheets, pillow covers, and rail bumpers decorated with colorful robots or cars.

As you begin looking at all the choices in infant bedding you should ignore designs and colors at first. Instead focus on fabric content, thread counts, and comfort. We might be highly concerned with thread count when choosing our own sheets realizing the difference in comfort is tremendous, but often we ignore this fact for our children and infants.

A newborn, or young infant, spends a large percentage of their time lying in the crib or bassinet. Having the silkiest, smoothest, most comfortable sheets is just good common sense. You want them to sleep peacefully.

Along with thread count consider the fabric composition. The higher the percentage of cotton the more comfortable it will be. Cotton breathes easily, while man made fibers do not.

Once you have chose the kinds of fabrics you want, then you can let the real fun begin. You can explore at the beautiful patterns, wacky characters, and colors which are available.

A popular infant bedding theme, one most parents end up with, is teddy bears. Those cute little bears may never be bought with our own money, but somehow always seem to show up in our nurseries. It is rare a baby shower goes by without at least a few pieces of teddy bear bedding showing up.

Rainbows, unicorns, baby blocks, and balloons are some of the other very popular infant bedding themes.

What surprises many parents and gift givers is to discover the most popular infant bedding is not pink or blue, but is actually colors which would be considered gender neutral. Parents often are sick and tired of the overwhelming amount of pink and blue items they receive as gifts and go out of their way to buy neutral options. Especially if this is the first baby and you are planning to have more. Then buying gender neutral crib bedding allows you to use the same sets for future babies saving even more money.

When you really want to have some fun in the nursery take a look at infant bedding themes which offer curtains, dresser covers, and even rocking chair cushions. You can outfit the entire nursery in a consistent theme. While you may not want this for every set, having one or two sets to make the nursery a matching set is great for those special nursery photographs you want to share with family.

The best advice, just get out there and take a look at all your options. You may feel overwhelmed until you see the one special set. Then you will know exactly how your want your baby’s bed to look.


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