Baby Bedding Sets: Eh, Who Needs ‘Em?

I’m all about making the baby’s room look great. After all, it’s important the nursery be set up and ready for the little one when he comes home and totally critical to show it off to everyone who comes over to see it before then. The nursery is a specialized room and unlike the rest of the rooms in your house, you can do pretty much anything you want as you pull the room together. For most people, they start with the big beautiful baby bedding sets.

The Baby Bedding Sets
These baby bedding sets include usually four or maybe five items: A comforter or quilt, a matching bumper, a crib sheet and a crib skirt. When it’s all put together, the room is beautiful – especially if you plan your paint and curtains to match. The trouble is, that beautiful nursery might as well be in the closet to start with – you can’t use most of it or will opt not to.

The comforter is beautiful, but it’s not very practical. It would make far more sense to get a stack of thin baby blankets you can swaddle with or use to mop up spit-up. The comforter is probably too stiff and expensive to use as a blanket. It’s far better to just hang the comforter on the wall as a decoration – at least it can get some use that way.

The big fluffy bumper is the most controversial. Many parents are opting to not use a bumper at all as it might be a problem for babies who roll into the fluffy fabric and get trapped. The baby with a face squished into the bumper can also have trouble breathing. Many parents opt for a breathable bumper or no bumper at all instead to minimize risks. But unless you’re extremely lucky, they don’t sell the coordinating breathable bumpers.

The crib skirt and sheet are okay. You can use those without any trouble, and at least they coordinate. Of course, they will be all but alone after you’re done removing the fluffy bumper and hanging up or storing the comforter. But hey, surely you want to put a little bit of that big expensive set to good use!

Buy Separates – Not a Baby Bedding Set
If you do want to buy something special for the baby’s room, look for a set that can be purchased in pieces rather than the whole. That way you can buy the parts you’ll actually use – a few sheets, the skirt, some receiving blankets, a window valance and room decorations – without wasting money on the most expensive parts that simply don’t get used much at all.

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