Co Sleep idea - Re: Mattress Covers

[Guest guest]

I can't answer you on that one at all. AS i have read things saying

PUL is just as bad and toxic and all we should ever use on baby is

wool and cotton. I looked into it from the diaper angle as i had

bought some of the PUL pockets and PUL covers.

I find that using mattress covers make me sweat really bad. There is

not enough air flow or something. I wind up breaking out in the

sweaty areas also. We bought one - a sealy type brand to cover our

new bed for same reason. I just bought a fluffy thick one w/o any of

the waterproof barriers. But i still have this problem. So i don't

use it and it was $45. wasted. Maybe the material was not all 100%

cotton. But i thought i picked an extra thick batting cotton type.

So it could soak up leaks w/o causing me to sweat cause of plastic

inner.

I use baby blankets under baby with one of the crib sized pads under

that. So if she does have a leak it won't go through to the bed.

The layers of blanket i put between her and the pad, incase it makes

her sweat like those things do to me. So it is like she has her mini

bed on our bed. I had her laying on a sleep positioner too with a

blanket over it. Baby will wiggle it's way around the bed trying to

find you. I hated when i would roll away to cuddle DH and wake up

and can't roll the other way cause baby is there. So the sleep

postioner kept them in place. I also use one of the baby rails for

toddler beds to make an edge/barrier for them. So they are next to

the edge, with the rail.

As for covering the whole bed and if you get to birth at home, i just

bought a plastic shower liner from the dollar store to use the night

in labor. I never put anything over entire bed to sleep on the weeks

before. I used layers of towels and again one of those crib pads

under them. The pads i am referring to that i found to cause the

least amount of sweating is the s brand. They are not the fat

thick quilted looking ones. They are thin and flat. s makes

lap and changing table pads out of the same stuff. I can't recall

what they are made out of. I preferred these because they do not

get lint and hair stuck all over them when washed like the thicker

quilted cotton ones do.

So all of that to say you may not like it and have issues like i have

with them, even with the ones that do not have the water proof

barriers. At least with those baby ones you can use it in specific

areas w/o covering the whole bed, making you or your SO miserable

having to lay on it too. The changing table and crib mattress pads

maybe something you have to buy anyways.

>

> Okay, so I'm looking at mattress covers and there are just so many!

> I'm finally finding ones that are cotton top, but then I have a

choice

> of the waterproof material...

>

> Am I right in the assumption that the PUL (polyurethane laminate) is

> less toxic than vinyl? Is there anything better than PUL?

>

> Thanks!

>

> Lana

>

> > In the short run, you could get a mattress cover, you're going to

need one

> > with a baby. Leaks happen when you're figuring out the cloth

diaper

> > system, and then there's the whole water breaking issue.

> >

> > desh

>

[Guest guest]

My mattress cover does not have the plastic backing, and it keeps the

mattress dry. I never tried the plastic ones, either- it seemed a sweaty

idea as you said. We used a plastic drop cloth for the bed while I was

in labor, but I spent most of the time in the tub.

desh