Breathable Bumpers

Re: Breathable Bumpers

• jennygirlmt member

  January 2010

  I assume it's because babies can breathe through the fabric if their face gets smooshed into it...Target and BRU both have them.

  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  

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• epirani

  January 2010

  They are kind of like a netting to put in the crib. I registered for some at BRU. I am still using bumpers until he is moving and then I will take them out.

  

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• DebbieJS77 member

  January 2010

  We registered for one at Buy Buy Baby. The sales lady told us they eliminate the risk of suffocating and are better for air flow. She made it sound like regular bumpers are controversial.....I am not really opininated on this topic...just relaying what she told us.

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• amandydean

  January 2010

  From what I hear, the primary risk is suffocation, and a less serious / less likely risk is just that airflow is reduced (so maybe baby gets less oxygen and breathes more of his own carbon dioxide). 

  They're controversial because it's possible for these things to happen, but occurrences are very rare... especially when baby is old enough to turn his head away from them.

  We're probably just skipping bumpers altogether.

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• CrunchOoEezyMama

  January 2010

  epirani:

  They are kind of like a netting to put in the crib. I registered for some at BRU. I am still using bumpers until he is moving and then I will take them out.

  It's also for better airflow through the crib, before they can move around.  It's one theory on SIDS - pockets of carbon dioxide form that they rebreathe bc of lack of airflow.  We never used regular bumpers.
  

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• pamiva1 member

  January 2010

  I have this one for DD and will get it again for DS:

  https://www.onestepahead.com/catalog/product.jsp?productId=534464&cmSource=Search

  I agree that you could just skip a bumper all together, however if you LO is anything like my daughter, she would push her pacifier out of the crib at night and get very upset. This solved that problem!

  m/c March 2009 @ 5 weeks ~ m/c June 2009 @ 10 weeks ~ m/c February 2012 @ 4.5 weeks

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• trickywoo member

  January 2010

  Babies r us sells them.  They are a mesh fabric, so the baby can see and breathe through them.  I got them with my second because he banged his head on the crib so often. But I didn't want the pillowy bumpers.

   They work pretty well.
  

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