Hints for Raising Babies to Children

Babies are wonderful, full of adventures and many first. Some are quite comically where others are enduring and some worrisome. Here are a few hints that will help you through just a few of the many first your baby will go through from infant to toddler.



Your baby begins its life in a baby bed. When it comes time for traveling to visit grandma or others who may not necessarily have a baby bed handy you will have to come up with an alternative sleeping arrangement for your bundle of joy. You can always put them in bed with you, but if you already have them in a solid habit of sleeping on their own, you don’t want a trip away from home to blow that for you. Instead, if you are traveling with a small baby and do not want to haul the baby bed with you simply haul a small inflatable pool with you. Blow it up when it comes to beddy bye time and cover it with a sheet. Make sure to secure the sheet well under the blow up pool. Bring along your baby’s blankets it normally would sleep with at home and you are good to go.

When it comes to comical first, here is a couple safety tips to prevent a couple that may be comical well after the fact but can be scary or worrisome at first. Adults are even non-observant at times when walking and have been known to walk into a glass door a time or two in their life. For little ones who have just discovered they can stand on two feet and move, glass doors can be a quick roadblock in their path – kind of like a bird and a clean window. Do your little one favor and prevent a few goose eggs on their noggin by placing a piece of colored tape at their eye level on any glass doors in your home. This will alert them that the door is shut.

Those adventurous little toddlers love to get into mischief and expand their perimeter to do so. If they see a door they can get through, they will, and if that door happens to be one that leads to the great outdoors, this can be quite worrisome when you have a toddler missing in action due to a slightly jarred door. To keep you on the alert to your wandering toddler, place a bell on all doors that lead to the great outdoors. If the bell is low enough for them to hit to make it ring, but not to actually hold or touch fully, you can bet they will ring the bell out of curiosity even before heading out. This will put you on the alert that you may soon have a run away toddler!



Along with a growing exploring baby comes the time when you graduate your baby from a baby crib to a bed. Again, parental worrisome can come into play. As a parent, you may experience sleepless nights worrying about your little one falling out of the bed in the middle of the night. A toddler may worry about falling out of the bed. To stop the worry for everyone involved and to get a good night sleep, take the crib mattress and place it on the floor along side the child’s bed. That way if he/se does fall out of the bed it is met with a soft and safe landing.

Your toddler will become quite creative when they begin to learn about paint. To keep your kitchen table paint free, messy spill free and without wet rings, get some large sponges from any dollar store. Cut out a circle in the center the size of the container being used to house the water or paint and slip the containers into the hole. This works well for glue too and saves you and your table from worry and excessive cleaning.

If you have any tips to help keep ones baby or toddler safe during their unrestraint adventurous years, leave your tips in the comments. One can never have enough tricks up their sleeve when it comes to child rearing!

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Manhattan Crib System
The Manhattan Crib daybed full size bed is shown in soft brown maple with acres stain. This unit is available as a crib only, or you can add the "upgrade" option. this would include the extra boards and parts so you can convert the unit into BOTH the daybed and the full sized bed.

The crib measures 38" deep x 57" wide and 44" tall. The full size bed will measure 89" long, 57" wide and 38" tall. This bed system comes "broken down" for shipment. The unit is built this way for 2 reasons: It needs to be built with bolts so it can be modified and you can store the bed when not needed.

The complete set will include the full size bed slat rails, day bed conversion board and the metal crib spring system. MATTRESS NOT INCLUDED WITH THIS SET.

Sierra Crib
The Sierra Style crib is shown in oak hardwood with seely stain. Also available in cherry and maple. This unit is available as a crib only, or you can add the "upgrade" option. This would include the extra boards and parts so you can convert the unit into BOTH the daybed and the full sized bed. Also available with this unit is the crib/full size bed under drawer unit.

The crib measures 32 deep x 57 wide and 49" tall. The full size bed will measure 79 1/2 long, 51" wide and 49" tall. BABY MATTRESS NOT INCLUDED WITH THIS SET.

All cribs have been manufactured by ASTM standards. How to assemble pictured instruction manual also included. The varnish and stain on this furniture is completely child safe.


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