Nursery Bedding

Nursery bedding is certainly different than it used to be. It used to be that all you needed to use for nursery bedding was a crib, bassinet and some blankets and everything was fine. That is simply not true anymore. Nursery bedding has become far too sophisticated for babies that will never know the difference. As with all things; nursery bedding is not really designed with the baby in mind, but with the intent on impressing others with your ability to purchase expensive or popular items for the baby. Let’s face it, a baby doesn’t care if he sleeps in a dresser drawer as long as he is dry and well fed. Simple wooden cribs are now built with expensive gold and marble inlays; hand crafted designs, and overhead canopies. Nursery bedding is starting to resemble adult furniture in its extravagance and price. The cribs and bassinets alone can cost as much as $2000 or more. That is not including the sheets, blankets, pillows, and bumper pads. Baby pillows are an odd accessory to a crib for a newborn because they are not even supposed to be using them. Bassinets are changing too. The once simply designed bassinet that looked like a half-canopied basket is not starting to have its extras too. Bassinets are designed with wooden inlays etc, and they are motorized to rock the baby to sleep so that parents do not have to rock them with their foot anymore. It seems that modern technology is not simply making baby live like the rich and famous, but parents don’t even have to come within 2 feet of their babies if they don’t want to as the new accessories to bedding include, music boxes, mobiles, and remote controlled rocking etc. Nursery bedding is almost as advanced as adult bedding. Pretty soon, they will probably have sleep number beds and adjustable beds for babies. All a baby really needs as far as bedding goes is a sturdy crib or bassinet with clean sheets and blankets for him to be safe and warm. Some of the accessories that parents are buying can be made at

home. You can make your own mobiles and place a radio with baby music in the room etc. it really doesn’t have to be so expensive. When you think about it, baby bedding is used at best for one year. It simply isn’t practical to purchase all of the sophisticated bedding that is on the market today unless you are wealthy or both parents are doctors and can easily afford it. Parents should not burden themselves into purchasing expensive baby bedding because the money could be better spent elsewhere. When you begin to get baby bedding, shopping at Wal-Mart, and other discount stores can save you a great deal of money and it is still of good quality. If really pressed, buy used bedding.