Do you play by such a rule? Does YOUR baby's nursery have a fan in it, for air circulation/SIDS prevention?
L&C's nursery has pretty low ceilings, and even "low profile" ceiling fans seem too low. So I was going to find some cute small vintage fan or something for one of the side tables. (for some reason I'm bucking the idea of some plastic crap fan sitting there. Don't know why. Maybe I don't have enough to OBSESS ABOUT?? lol. )
Thoughts? Solutions?
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Re: The whole "fan in the nursery" thing....
Must have in my eyes. ANYTHING that is a SIDS prevention tip I do if at all humanly possible. Boodle's room doesn't have a ceiling fan (and she only naps in there anyways but will eventually sleep in there) so we got a cheap table fan from Target. Actually considered switching out light fixtures it was so important to me, until I posted here and was reassured that it doesn't have to be a ceiling fan and a table fan is sufficient.
But I'm crazy.
we have something like this on his tall dresser...I like the white noise from it too...
CC still sleeps in my room in her RNP next to my bed. But I have window fans ready to go for her room when she moves into her crib.
You can get a window fan and then let the curtains hide it for you until it's in use at night?
Because we're fancy like that.
We always had a fan going for Jack - and still do - we all sleep in the same room and mama needs her white noise! But to me it just made so much sense to keep that air circulating to hopefully decrease risk of SIDS. Any fan will do - any fan will increase air circulation in the room!
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Ditto this! We just use an oscillating tower fan since we don't have ceiling fans.
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We only use fans in the summer. I'm not at all worried. We don't smoke or have any of the other lifestyle factors that seem to contribute to the risk for SIDS.
I have a Cinni table top fan, they used to sell them at RH. I've had if for well over 10 yrs and it still works great and I can easily move it from room to room or store it in a cabinet
i agree with Schmoodle anything that can possibly prevent SIDS is worth doing The boys didn't have a ceiling fan, so i just used a cheap stand up plastic one until they were in big boy beds, and then a table top one...stopped at about 2.5, but that was mainly being used at that point for white noise Audrey always had a ceiling fan..and it was always on
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This. My son's room has both a ceiling fan and table fan, but I'm also coo-coo.
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Yep, we followed all the SIDS prevention guidelines. I'm not really a paranoid mama, but they just make sense.
We have ceiling fans in all our bedrooms (pretty common in the South), but I think a table fine would work just fine.