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While the parents may get excited for preparing their nursery for their baby, many do not think about the safety issues surrounding baby bedding. It's easy to get carried away with cute comforters, so pay attention to ensure your baby's crib is safe, and still stylish.

To save money on baby bedding, only purchase fitted sheets and a light weight blanket for your newborn. Comforters will probably be unnecessary until your child is around two years old, so keep this in mind when buying a set. Do not cover your child in a heavy blanket before he or she is a year old, because your child may overheat or even suffocate when covered by the blanket.

Instead of using heavy blankets, pay attention to the temperature in the nursery to keep the room comfortable and for clothing, use lightweight one-piece pajamas in the summer and thicker sleepers or wearable blankets in the winter.

If bumpers come with the baby bedding you pick out, get rid of them because they're not safe, and have been linked to SIDS. Crib bumpers can be used as step-stools to assist little ones in climbing out of their crib, as soon as they can climb it is time for the bumpers to be removed. Bumpers aren't sufficient, though they look good with baby girl or boy crib set.

Take stuffed animals and pillows out of the crib - no matter how adorable -before your baby sleeps in it, because they present a suffocation risk. It is all right for a child to play with toys in his crib as long as someone is watching him, but when it is time for them to go to sleep all toys need to be removed.

Crib bedding is a wonderful addition to your baby's nursery, but keep in mind that matching comforters and pillows are not safe or functional for an infant. You should talk to your pediatrician to get details, but in general, don't use more infant bedding than you need to.

You'll have much more freedom to decorate a toddler's bed, because then it will make sense to have comforters and pillows on the bed, but by that time, your child will expect to make at least some of the decisions.

Dorothea is a writer and researcher on parenting and family issues. She also works part-time as a freelance writer for Your Baby Bedding.

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