How Old Can You Use The Crib Bumper Pads?

• Posted by Snowy White December 19, 2019 Filed in Family & Home #crib bumper pads  126 views
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  We used crib bumper pads for our first when he was really moving around well. Likely around 6 months but I can't remember exactly. With our second I chose not to get the pads but got mesh ones. He slept with his head pressed against the crib bars until we moved him to his big boy bed a couple weeks ago. He didn't have any marks on his head. I found that the mesh ones were a good compromise because my anxious mind started to fret about the suffocation risk so getting the mesh helped balance that with my other worry that he'd get his arm stuck in the bars and break it. 
  I hope our different experiences help you with your decision. Do we need crib bumper pads? No, we don't need them. However, they are handy from my experience. We didn't put our little one into the crib until after 6 m. His crib was always adjacent to my side of the bed so I constantly checked on him. I used crib bumper pads once my first baby was about 6 months and could roll/squirm around in the crib - as a result of all the moving around she'd ditch her pacifiers over the side of the crib, between the bars. I honestly used the bumpers more to keep her pacifiers in the crib so she could find them (and I wouldn't have to help her in the middle of the night), but she also did get her arms/legs stuck a few times which was sad. But no, for the first 6 months I didn't use anything.