November 16, 2006

pop quiz

An eight-month-old who can stand up. Crib bumper or no?

I probably have a book somewhere to tell me this stuff…

4 Comments

1. 
   sari

   November 16, 2006

   I would think no…but check anyway.

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2. 
   Mama C-ta

   November 17, 2006

   I have no idea – I don’t know what it’s like to have a kid that doesn’t have a fit if you put him in the crib. Ours made a very expensive laundry basket. But I’d say if the bumper is cute, leave it. Bumps on heads heal – kidding.

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3. 
   purplepassion

   November 17, 2006

   Look it up to be sure but I think I took it off at about 1 year for the second child. I don’t remember the first, he’ll be 17 Sunday – who can remember what we did with his bumper!

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4. 
   Kate

   November 17, 2006

   I used the bumper until the kids were strong enough to rip the little ties off it and throw it on the floor. Then I took the hint.

   There’s a school of thought that crib bumpers are ALWAYS bad… and there’s a school of thought that you could keep your kid in a hermetically sealed room with no sharp corners and only organic foods and they’d still find a way to get bruises and sniffles, so do what feels right instead of worrying about “should.”

   I have a Ph.D. from that second school.

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