You will be compelled to think over baby bedding options, for example, whether you should purchase bumpers or not, whether the color green is too boyish for a girl or too girlish for a boy, what purpose will the quilt serve that is available with the combination? Should you get both a swing and a bouncy chair? Wall decor is always a major issue when decorating the nursery. Should you opt for cute and playful hand-painted murals, or that brain-building wallpaper design endorsed by self-proclaimed “experts”?
You could be dooming your child to inferior intelligence, making your lives more difficult or imbuing the wrong value on your precious bundle of love with every decision you make about the nursery decor. Many parents agonize over every decision about decorating the baby’s nursery and question their decisions about color, furniture, theme and design because all of these elements combine to create the environment in which the baby will grow. One of if not the most important of these essentials is the choice made for crib bedding.
Relax and have your very first parental epiphany. Go with your own instincts; disregard all the advise given by magazines, friends, and baby stores. Your choice to buy a bouncy seat, playpen, and all other baby paraphernalia might cause your mother-in-law to joke about the day care center you’re running; but, if you can use these items to find peace and be a better mother then you have made the right decision for your family.
Sure you may grow to hate the color of baby bedding you chose or never use the quilt that came with it but your decision to read three books a night to the child in that crib could turn out a lifelong, avid reader. Girl baby bedding is only a small portion of decision you will make for that baby bump under your shirt. One should just pick what you like and know for your baby daughter.
By the time you child is seven or eight years old, you may look back on the time you spent choosing his or her crib bedding and wonder how you obsessed over such a little thing. Parenting is never guilt free; you might always think that she’d be better at Math if you had chosen the brain nourishing lithographs for her nursery wall.
Dorothea is a writer and researcher on parenting and family issues. She also works part-time as a freelance writer for a baby products company, Kudlee, Inc..
