Which Kind of Pillow for Baby

Pillow in the first months of life: None

One of the recommendations around the Sudden Infant Death is to prevent the site where they sleep there unnecessary items, such as stuffed animals, pillows, cushions roll ...

Only in very premature infants, for a limited time in which they have very little mobility is recommended to use something like a pillow, but shaped donut. Its function is to prevent the head from being deformed. Because their bones are still so soft that tends to flatten under its own weight.

Pillow for babies

Some children grow up with misshapen head, it is what we call plagiocephaly. It can produce a flattening of the back of the head balanced affecting the shape or center that is more marked on one side.

Sometimes in that situation we can use the "rusks" as in premature to correct the position with cute baby pillows. But most babies are usually not as indolent as to stay in that position and move becoming the "donut" a useless object in the crib. There are other more effective postural measures in these cases. The principal, limit the time the baby is lying, using "group 0" or backpacks baby carrier.

Pillow under 2-3 years

Anyone who knows a child of this age, you know it does not matter whether or not elephant baby pillow. The child moves so you may end up sleeping on the foot of the bed. And the pillow ends up being that which moves the cradle randomly with what sometimes matches the child in the most unimaginable positions.

There are some who sleeping in a more or less peaceful posture. If you put them a pillow, it is best that is still very thin.

Pillow in children with large vegetations

During the early school years some children are very frequent infections, which causes them to grow vegetations. When this occurs children breathe worse and may suffer earaches when they are lying.

One way to breathe better is that sleep more incorporated. But to achieve this does not serve a small pillow. Usually in this situation as better sleep is built on a large cushion. And although it seems strange that this age to sit still sleeping in these cases usually stay on the cushion, because when they get not breathe well.

Children pillow and sleep in a stable posture

Sooner or later the dream is becoming calmer, similar to adults. All keep moving along at night, but since we do always staying in the same direction (along the bed). This usually occurs from the moment the child's size is greater than the width of the bed.