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When you are expecting your first child one of the most exciting things you’ll think about is furnishing your child’s nursery and choosing all that fun baby gear. Before you start the actual physical part of nursery decorating, the most complicated and perhaps intimidating part of the planning phase is sorting through all the nursery gear you’ll need, and the vast assortment of baby bedding.

You will be compelled to think over baby bedding options, for example, whether you should purchase bumpers or not, whether the color green is too boyish for a girl or too girlish for a boy, what purpose will the quilt serve that is available with the combination? Are a swing and a bouncy seat necessary? Is it worthwhile to buy mind-enhancing lithographs or hand-painted murals to hang on the wall of the nursery?

You could be dooming your child to inferior intelligence, making your lives more difficult or imbuing the wrong value on your precious bundle of love with every decision you make about the nursery decor. Planning a baby’s nursery can put a lot of pressure on parents, because each choice they make will have an impact on their new and vulnerable baby. The most significant choice involved in nursery planning is the selection of crib bedding.

Expectant parents learn right away that choosing nursery decor can be a stressful experience. Hyperventilation and low-grade hysterics are really not called for, so feel free to breath deeply into a paper bag until your calm returns and you recognize that you have just had your first taste of the anxiety that is a natural part of parenthood. Learn to trust yourself and throw away those must-have nursery decor lists, thrust upon you by magazines, well-meaning friends and baby super-stores. Your choice to buy a bouncy seat, playpen, and all other baby paraphernalia might cause your mother-in-law to joke about the day care center you’re running; but, if you can use these items to find peace and be a better mother then you have made the right decision for your family.

It doesn’t matter if you later begin to dislike the color of the baby bedding you picked out or if the quilt that was included was just stuffed in a drawer somewhere; what really matters are the other things you choose to do, like reading to your child. Baby bedding girl is another important decision of the many you will need to make to welcome your child. Don’t fret over the voluminous number of choices, just pick a theme or design that appeals to you to welcome her to the family.

It’s ridiculous how worried you used to be of fixing up her nursery or how much time you spent picking out her first clothes or the baby bedding for her crib. It’s not long before your little one runs into third grade and you’ll laugh. Regardless of all the research you do, all the Internet sites you look at, all the stores you visit and all the opinions you get, you will always feel responsible as your child grows if you feel you missed one element that would have helped your child to increase grades, be better at sports or some other area. That’s what being a parent is all about.

Dorothea is a writer and researcher on parenting and family issues. She also works part-time as a freelance writer for a baby products company, Kudlee, Inc..

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