New parents experience a lot of anxiety and have tons of choices to make, when they set out to decorate their new baby’s nursery. New parents ask themselves if they should use cloth or disposable diapers; if one of them should stay home with the child or will a day-care facility be better for their lifestyle; how much they will have to change their lives in order to take care of their little one. Expecting parents have many things to think about, but one thing that often goes overlooked in the theme for their new child’s crib set.

Gifts brought for baby showers range from home-made booties, to noise-making toys. Blankets, receiving cloths, pillows, and stuffed animals come with the other baby gifts, and are intended to be used around the child while he is sleeping. When thinking about nursery decor, the question of which items are safe for the baby and which are not comes up, because many baby items, while really cute, are not necessarily safe to be in with the child.

So, let’s look at what kinds of baby bedding and other decor items are safe to use in your baby’s crib and around his nursery. Bedding for babies can be a hazard to your child if it is too fluffy; infants have not yet developed the motor functions or reflexes to move things out of their way, which can lead to strangulation or suffocation. If the baby is sleeping, and moves his head into a very fluffy blanket, he can suffocate on the fluffy object.

A fluffy blanket you received as a gift should not be discarded but rather used when you are there to supervise what the baby is doing with it. In general, as opposed to being high in texture, baby bedding should be flat in texture, more like your sheets as opposed to a fluffy blanket. The fluffier bedding can be used to carry and hold the baby rather than the thin blanket, and the soft bedding is preferred over the fluffier one when the baby is put in the crib.

Your baby doesn’t need a pillow in the crib with her; if you do put one in, she will likely squirm off of it to lie flat on the mattress. You’ll find babies lying with their heads to the side, on their back or on their bellies after they can roll over on their own. Educated parents purchasing baby bedding sets are well aware that responsible retailers of baby bedding know that pillows do not make babies more comfortable. If fact, pillows are highly dangerous to babies, since their motor skills have not yet developed to a stage which enables them to push away an offending pillow, should it obstruct baby’s easy respiration. This is why pillows do not come with crib sets, even Max baby bedding.

Stuffed animals in a crib or bed are more dangerous to a child than fluffy blankets or pillows. A child may hug a stuffed animal, due to the nature behind it, and then may be unable to push it away.