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Waiting for a happy event – the birth of a child – parents try to prepare everything they can to make the child comfortable. Most of all they are concerned about what should be the room for the newborn. There is nothing complicated in the design, but there are certain features.
Requirements for the room
In the room for the newborn, all finishing materials must be safe. The walls are painted with safe paints (mineral water emulsion, for example) or covered with paper-based wallpaper. Ceilings – bleached or painted with the same water-based paint, lined with wooden clapboard. The floor can be wooden – painted or varnished, you can lay a laminate or a safe linoleum (there are some).
What is not welcome is carpets. Until the child begins to crawl, this is an unambiguous requirement, and then it will be possible to lay a carpet on the floor, but only it will have to be vacuumed and washed regularly. If you are afraid that the child will be cold on the floor, you can mount a floor heating system. Under the laminate, it fits quickly. Paired with a thermostat, this type of heating will allow you to maintain the required temperature for a child – about 20 ° C.
You can control the temperature with a conventional thermometer, but you also need to monitor the humidity of the air. It should be in the range of 70-55%. In a too dry atmosphere, the child’s mucous membranes dry out, and crusts may form in the nose. This prevents him from breathing and he is naughty. Therefore, for the heating season, you will need to either get an air humidifier or regularly hang a wet terry towel in the room.
Another requirement concerns lighting. It is desirable that the windows of the room for the newborn face south or east. Sunlight is necessary for the normal development of the baby, and is also needed for his good mood. At the same time, the windows should not have cracks, they should not blow from under them. But deaf sashes are not needed either: daily ventilation is required.
What furniture should be in the room for a newborn
Not many things are required for a small child. If there is no possibility or desire to settle it separately, everything can be placed in the parents’ room. It must be said right away that the room for a newborn should be freed from all unnecessary items, including flowers, carpets and numerous draperies. All of them only collect dust, which is highly undesirable. The list of necessary furniture is small:
- Crib;
- chest of drawers-changing table (it is possible separately, but it is more practical in this version);
- wardrobe for children’s clothes;
- sofa or armchair for adults.
Basic set of furniture for a newborn room
This is all that is needed until the child is one year old. Then you will need additional shelves / boxes for toys and other “dowry”. Let’s talk about each subject in more detail.
Crib
For some young parents, it is an irreplaceable thing for a child, for others it is superfluous. The main question is whether your child will sleep comfortably in his bed or will he be more comfortable with his mother. In principle, if the baby is calm, you will better get enough sleep when he sleeps separately: you don’t have to constantly remember that a little man is lying next to you. In order not to get up once again at night when the child turns over, the crib can be moved closer at night so that you can reach the child with your hand. Feeling your touch, he will soon calm down. Over time, children get used to sleeping on their own. All this is for the case if the nursery is combined with your bedroom. If the baby has a personal room allocated to him, a crib is simply required there.
If you bought a ready-made crib, the bottom in it is set to several positions in height. It’s comfortable. In the first months of life, while the baby is still inactive, the bottom is set to the highest position. It is easier and more convenient to lay and lift newborns. As they grow older and increase mobility, the bottom is lowered lower so that its owner, who has matured, does not accidentally fall out.
There are rocking beds. In them, of course, it is more convenient to rock the children. But they quickly get used to it and then it may happen that you need to push the crib all night – the only way the children agree to sleep. So you have to be careful with this.
Now about canopies and capes. No doubt they look cute, but doctors unanimously advise against doing them. They interfere with normal air exchange, retain the sun’s rays necessary for the child, and even collect dust. All this is true, but if mom really wants to, you can buy a canopy bed, you just need to wash it regularly (once every two weeks for sure).
It is also important to choose the right place for a crib. It must be placed so that the sun looks into it, but not under the window, not near the battery, and also not in the place where drafts can walk.
Chest of drawers/changing table
In principle, these can be two separate items, but it is much more practical in this version: a lid is made on the chest of drawers in the form of a changing table. It is convenient for caring for a child: everything you need is at hand.
If you are still wondering if you need a diaper at all, because diapers have remained mainly as baby clothes, then it’s completely in vain. You will need to change your baby frequently. It is more convenient to stand upright at the same time, rather than bending over or sitting on the bed / sofa. Standing is much faster and more comfortable, which is what changing tables allow you to do. Also, the sidewalls, nailed on three sides along the perimeter, will not allow the child to fall over.
Wardrobe for children’s clothes
A room for a newborn up to 6 months can do without a closet – everything is included in the chest of drawers. But after six months, the wardrobe is already needed. They can consist of two sections – in the upper shelves for clothes (necessarily with doors so that things do not gather dust), at the bottom there may be drawers for toys.
Since this type of furniture will serve you further, pay attention to its corners. It is desirable that they be rounded. An older child should not be able to seriously injure himself during games. Well, the design must be strong and stable, and the materials (including paint) safe and designed specifically for children’s rooms. For any children’s furniture, there must be safety certificates separately for the material from which the furniture is made, separately for finishing materials (glue, paint, etc.).
Sofa or armchair
This piece of furniture is necessary for adults, and, first of all, for mom. The specific choice – a sofa or an armchair – depends on how you prefer to feed your baby – sitting or lying down. Although you can sit on the couch and sit. Armrests for this should be high and preferably soft. Not many furniture now meet such requirements and do not be discouraged if you do not find anything suitable. Take the most acceptable option, and pillows will provide you with comfort. They should be of different sizes, shapes and thicknesses so that they can be placed under the back or elbow, providing the most comfortable position.
There are also rocking chairs and some designs are really comfortable. But they take up a lot of space, so not even every room can accommodate. And keep in mind that when the child learns to crawl, the chair will need to be removed. Its unstable design can be dangerous for the baby.
We develop design
When designing a room for a newborn, first of all, you need to focus on what the mother of the baby likes. He is very sensitive to her moods and will feel good if mom is happy. Therefore, in terms of colors and style, all questions are for mothers. There are, however, a few tips from psychologists that are worth listening to. First of all, it concerns color. When decorating a room for a newborn, choose soft, delicate pastel shades of any of the colors you want. Too saturated colors put pressure on the psyche of both mother and baby. Because only such a range.
Often the walls in the rooms for small children are made plain, and this is no coincidence. Psychologists believe that a large, clear pattern can frighten a child, because the walls are either plain or with a small, soft pattern. Leave cartoon stories for the time when the baby is a little older. In the meantime, he feels better in such an environment.
Light design does not mean the complete absence of bright spots. They can and should be, but only in small quantities. It can be a beautiful picture, a bright bedspread or a pillow. But there shouldn’t be many such bright things.
We also need to talk about lighting. It must be multi-zone. In addition to a bright overhead light, a subdued light is needed, as well as a nightlight that only slightly dispels the darkness and does not interfere with the child’s sleep. To make it convenient to control the light, you can turn on the lighting through the pass-through switches. They make it possible to turn on / off the lamp from several points. In the nursery, it will be convenient to have one control point near the door, and the second near the armchair or sofa on which the mother will feed the child.
How to decorate a newborn room
Decorate the children’s room so that mom likes it. The main task is to bring joy to her. No matter how much you want, but a lot of flowers is not a good idea. They are certainly beautiful and young mothers will definitely like them, but they can cause allergies. Therefore, it is better to abandon this idea. Bouquets should be, but not in the room for the newborn. And to decorate this particular room, you can fill a certain number of balloons of the corresponding color with helium, tie ribbons to them and make a congratulatory poster.