Cot bumpers & mobiles

[PoppetOne]

Hi All

My HV has told me not to get bumpers for cot as they have health issues . Surely if this was the case people wouldn't buy them?

How many of you have bumpers for your LOs?

Also, can anyone recommend a cot mobile or perhaps tell me not to bother?
My PFB will go to sleep in her cot but sometimes needs help to drop off so I'm wondering if I need to bother or am I being mean not giving her any 'entertainment' in the cot?

Thanks

[MrsBadger]

there was a time when cot bumpers were thought to increase the risk of babies overheating and hence of SIDS, but FSID now don't consider them a danger.

They are, however, completely uneccesary unless you have a v mobile sleeper who wakes themselves up clonking themsleves or getting stuck in the bars.

re music, I found a CD much better than a cot mobile - lasts longer, easy to change if they don't like it, no batteries to run out etc

if you want a mobile to look at Flensted do the best ones, and will last forever without lookign babyish

A star projector for the ceiling thus is a different slant on it.

[orangina]

I never had a mobile in the cot as neither of mine needed any additional stimulation! I did get bumpers for each of them eventually (not as new borns, they were each in a moses basket to start with), as they clunked their heads on the sides of the cots. Also ds used to like to sleep all curled up against the side of the cot, and he would get feet stuck etc. He looked much cosier cuddled up against a padded bumper than just the prison bars of the cot!

[PoppetOne]

Thanks Mrs B & Orangina!

DD does sometimes push herself up the cot and hits her head on the top - she's in a grobag which we hoped would mean she couldn't do this - WRONG! so I think a bumper is necessary.

To stop her arms going through the bars I have put a sheet under the mattress, over each side of bars & pinned together right underneath the cot - I'd like to think she cant get at the safety pins as there are storage boxes under the cot but I check them every time I change the sheet.

She mostly settles well so I don't really think she needs a mobile or any additional stimulation but everyone else I have spoken to does 'something'. Be it a light, music or dummy - she only has a muslin square as a comforter, but I will definitely check out the suggestions.

Thanks again for your input & Merry Christmas!

[PoppetOne]

oooh! Love, love, love the mobiles, they are beautiful! thanks Mrs B!