Newborns and Babies

While you’ll doubtless be excited about the arrival of the addition to your family and the preparation of the nursery, the decision of which theme to use can be a difficult one. If you have not set up the baby’s nursery yet, the best place to start is by choosing bedding and then using the bedding as a starting point to decide how to decorate the room. Here are some things you can think about if you do not yet have an idea of what you want for your bedding theme.

When purchasing baby bedding with appeal to a boy, you will find boys prefer bold, strong colors. Don’t be afraid that it may be tacky – strong colors can be very fashionable. Representative of this type is, in brown and blue, Trend Lab’s Prep School Blue baby bedding. The colors are a mixtures of caramel, chocolate, blue and white.

Animal motifs are good for either a boy ’s or a girl’s room with dinosaurs being more popular for boys while kittens are perfect for girls. Little boys usually favor animals that they consider to be strong and bold while little girls are more nurturing and prefer animals that are cuddly. A theme with farm animals or a Noah’s Ark theme is wonderful for a young boy, if you need a theme with long life, consider a jungle theme.

A cowboy theme is one of the wild choices. Who has not imagined himself as a cowboy in his boyhood days? Fabrics such as ultra suede, leather, denim and plaid lend a genuine appearance to the many available cowboy themes. Decorative sheets with a cowboy or western theme can be found in these baby bedding sets. When you choose baby blankets in a cowboy theme, the most popular fabrics are fleece and flannel.

Sports are popular with most men, including boys. You can get specific team sets, although usually the team is the favorite of the parents’, not the child. Some bedding sets are available with sports based themes; like, football, baseball etc. For a theme that your son can grow into, a general sports theme is best because you can’t predict what specific sports your son will grow to love.

If your plan is to have more than two children, there are other choice for purchase of baby bed materials. Your choices are to either pick a theme that will grow with one child or go with a more neutral theme which can be used over and over for each subsequent baby. When a child reaches the toddler years and starts to have distinct ideas of their own, you will be able to choose a room theme then. If you are seeking neutral gender bedding for your little boy, you can always find exciting geometric patterns, alphabet themes and numbers, as well as popular cartoon characters like Winnie the Pooh.

Please give serious thought to the quality of the merchandise when making a purchase of boy crib bedding. Nursery bedding which contains frills might be acceptable for a baby boy, however, if you are going to continue using it as he ages up through pre school it will becomes too feminine and inappropriate. If you want to use your son’s crib bedding as he grows, you will want to opt for the cribs that convert to toddler beds, allowing you to keep your son’s favorite bedding.