Can My Baby Breath Through a Muslin Blanket
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Sleeping with muslin over face
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I think I'm being very a bit PFB but my 9 calendar month former has taken to property a muslin as he goes to slumber. All well and skillful apart from he likes to rub it confronting his face and and then falls asleep with it roofing his entire confront. This is ok isn't it? 
I feel so stupid asking (hence request on here!) but when I meet him like that I instinctively want to take hold of information technology off his face and feel a bit panicked 
It's simply a small Tesco muslin so nothing big enough for him to get wrapped up in or annihilation.
Its not a stupid question!
The SIDS guidelines take a recommendation that for a safety sleeping environment baby should have a "clear cot". That means nothing in the cot - no pillow, loose covers, no toys or comforters.
I usually kickoff giving a comforter nearly 9 months onetime, so I looked into the prophylactic of this at the time. At that place is no ".... until" age with the clear cot. So they don't say for the first 6 months, 12 months or annihilation similar that. Just that baby should slumber with a articulate cot. I can therefore only form the assumption they mean ever, regardless of the infant's historic period.
At that place used to exist a recommendation that pillows were not used until 12 months (inferring safe afterward 12m). So I assumed this must disharmonism with the Clear Cot guidance. But this chip of the recommendations (nearly pillows) has now been removed from the guidance. Then it would seem that the recommendations are unending?
This would all suggest that there is a gamble. No bespeak pretending in that location isn't. But it is for you, equally parent, to assess the risks and manage appropriately. With a muslin the risks would be
- It getting wrapped around neck and strangling
- It covering face and smothering
- It producing a soft surface when face-downwards and restricting animate
- Possible cause of over heating (?)
You just take to gauge those risks yourself and decide if this is acceptable, or a risk too far.
For what it'southward worth, my 2 year quondam has had her comforters (teddy attached to 15cm square blankie - two of them) from about 9-12 months old. Then a pillow from about 18 months onetime.
I agree with Fate that y'all need to weigh up any gamble yourself. FWIW both my children accept had a comforter in their beds from about 6 months and nosotros've never had any issues
I wouldn't allow that because if strangulation risk lone. Unlikely but it can happen and everything is unlikely until it happens. I was always taught 'articulate cot' likewise.
If it worries you lot, tin you lot have it out of the cot once he's nodded off?
They're thin & breathable so I'd recall they're lower risk than things like pillows or teddy bears.
Cut it up to make it much smaller. It'll be the odour and feel he likes. Hopefully at that historic period he won't notice the thickness. I really wouldn't worry virtually a smaller one. But the full size are a flake big for anything near the face up.
Thank you all for replying. I remember that's why I feel uncomfortable FATE, we've ever followed SIDS guidelines and this is the starting time 'thing' he has had in his cot (apart from lots of glow in the dark dummies!)
I have been moving it from his face up once he has dropped off just sometimes prising it out of his hands is hard without waking him. I haven't allowed him to have it overnight though.
I might try cut information technology upward smaller. I thought muslins would be meliorate comforters and then finding a 'one off' teddy that you lot spend the next v years trying not to inevitably leave somewhere
DS is viii months and since virtually 3 months has slept with a comforter teddy that he rubs on his face. He often has the whole affair covering his face but he won't sleep without it.
My girl has been doing the same since vi months - initially, I was terrified about her strangling herself with it and so I tied it to the cot so there is a express amount of material available for her.
I've relaxed nearly it more recently after hearing how so many other babies have used a muslin on their face from around the same age and then I've just started leaving it loose in the cot (she also moves around the entire cot now and then fully wakes if she has to go back to the indicate where it is tied to when stirring in her slumber). I do use the small size muslin for comfort merely
I remember posting the exact same affair for DS around xviii months ago.
He would have his muslin draped across his confront most of the nighttime. He'due south ok
It may exist of no assistance but Aden and Annais sell a small muslin comforter with an animal head which my son loved to sleep with! Given the design it wouldn't exist big enough to wrap effectually his neck!
Adept tip to purchase multiples of the favourite teddy 
@ilovewillow Thanks for the Aden and Anais suggestion, just looked at the website and they are ideal! Particularly then ones with a silky border equally DS also loves to suck on labels at the moment too
Please don't. In that location is a suffocation and strangulation gamble. Years get, my little cousin was suffocated by his coating and died. He was 12 months old. The risk is very real. At ix months old, I would have no soft toys, blankets or muslins in the cot and I would accept the child in a Grobag. Mine was in Grobags until 3.
Woodsforthetrees y'all are very welcome!
My DD has washed this since she was tiny. We necktie a knot in the muslin so she tin can cuddle it to her face just it's not big enough to embrace her face. She'due south 9 months one-time at present and all the same sleeps with one. Easier to wash and supercede than a toy comforter too.
Please don't do this and delight don't cutting a smaller one upward either. In that location is absolutely increased risk of injury.
A smaller one may seem safer but stray threads can be a tourniquet (wrapping round little finger) or choking adventure. The child doesn't asphyxiate on the thread itself but there have been cases of a thread being ingested, causing irritation which leads to airsickness. This is where the choking take chances comes in.
I know I audio like a existent Cassandra but manufacturers etc spend years developing and labelling products to cease horrible accidents from happening. Please don't ignore them.
Riddles you lot tie it to the cot?
Sorry, but I really would not do that!
Tie a knot in it. That being said my Ds sleeps on his forepart most nights with his face smushed into his comforter teddy (a babe jellycat one he got for Christmas that they don't make anymore lol). He also has bed ted which stays in his cot at all times in example of emergency!
If they sell comforter teds with a mussy attached then I may invest besides!
I've been wondering the aforementioned affair! DD is 15 months and will simply sleep with a muslin. She's done it from almost 12 months. I used to take information technology away in one case she'd nodded off but she would wake three times a night crying for information technology. Since I've let her have information technology all night she sleeps through, I guess when she wakes if she has it she can settle herself back off. I've been working on the supposition that it's ok as she could have a pillow and duvet past now (she doesn't, she has a gro-pocketbook and a clear bit except he muslin). But fifteen months is very different from 9 months of probably have been far besides nervous to let her have it all night then.
Information technology is a judgement. My friend has twins and one would not sleep on her back. She put her on her tummy and always slept like a log... she didn't though as y'all tin imagine for some fourth dimension.
I similar the idea of the brute ane
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