Dear new parents, having waited for your long-expected baby, most likely you have been spending lots of hours imagining the future nursery reproducing it hundred times in your mind, placing in different styles of nursery furniture and plunging into baby products of every description in order to choose the best baby items for you little one.

Every loving parent, as such wants to make the baby's life safe and comfortable from the very first days of his or her arrival. This natural course of things, this can be a perplexing time and you may well miss an important part.

One should note that the most important furniture item is the baby's crib and that this needs to be addressed carefully, because new babies spend almost the biggest part of their first year's life in their cribs. So, please think about it for a while and you will understand that not only is the crib important Thus the choice of a mattress must also rank highly when examining what is on offer.

First months babies spend almost all their time sleeping or just lying being awake in their cots. All this time they are laying on the mattresses you have chosen. And the quality of the mattresses influences deeply their back and neck development. Many experts have come to the conclusion that the mattress is the most important decision in the nursery, thus we have to approach the question of "which one" with maximum attention, because the support given to the baby from the mattress must be of the highest level to ensure a comfy well -supported sleep. Moreover it has been suggested that a firm snugly fitted mattress reduces the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).

A spring mattress or foam one?

Usually buying a baby crib for a new baby you are counting on him or her to sleep in it for 4-5 years, from an economic point of view it is better to purchase a spring mattress of high quality, because such mattresses will see out even the life of the cot bed, whereas a foam mattress will only really last 2 years and have to be replaced.

Ergo as you can see buying a cheaper mattress (a foam one) you have to pay more as you pay twice! If you have to replace the old mattress in your child's cot or baby crib which is of a non-standard size it is more efficient to get a foam one. However, if buying a spring baby mattress doesn't kill your budget this kind of mattress would always be preferable.

Spring mattresses are produced in the same way as full sized adult mattresses and offering more support as the metal coils spring move as weight is applied that gives the best night sleep as well as afternoon nap. Such mattresses will not cause any "troubled slumber" as this is very important for any child.

Exotic ones

You can also choose unusual mattresses which are available nowadays in the market place. There are other options including bamboo with its natural anti bacterial qualities. Bamboo has excellent wicking properties, more than 3 times that of cotton, which gives you a drier, cooler sleep. The material is naturally antimicrobial, hypo-allergenic and odour resistant. Bamboo is favoured as a sustainable textile that is eco-friendly. Also there are fibre mattresses which consist of coconut husk as a natural supportive core.