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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I let my daughter sleep with a blanket at 4 or 5 months.  I never really got the warnings - obviously some things are def dangerous for babies but on the whole - babies are not idiots.  If they can't breath they don't want to be in that situation.  It's kinda like baby gates on top of stair cases.  We brought into that whole safety thing with baby #1.  Came 2nd and 3rd kids whatever - our children learned how to do steps faster because they were never kept from doing it - we had no gates.  They never tumbled down.  They never wanted to so they didn't :)  We also don't baby proof everything in the house (actually we don't have anything baby proofed come to think of it) and our kids, who are definitely not geniuses, never tried to swallow cascade for example :)  They just aren't going to take a knife and try to stab themselves - I mean - people really need to give some credit to little ones.  No they should not be left unsupervised in the kitchen for example but I pretty much guarantee that they aren't going to try to suffocate themselves with a blanket as long as it's not oversized.  [/quote]

Really?  Are you nuts?

It's obvious that the warnings are overly cautious, but your approach is totally inappropriate.  Babies and kids don't avoid getting hurt "because they don't want to."  They don't have the life experience and world knowledge to know what can be dangerous.  If your baby wants to go down the stairs and thinks she can, she is going to try to do it.  One misstep, and she has fallen down the stairs.  If your toddler wants to explore the kitchen cabinets and finds dishwasher capsules while you have your back turned to cook something, he is going to put one in his mouth if he thinks it looks pretty or reminds him of candy.

I absolutely think OP could use a blanket safely, but using one at 4 or 5 months seems ridiculous to me.  The problem is that sometimes babies get caught in blankets and aren't able to free themselves, or they get caught and are too sleepy/young to wake up and realize they don't have good air flow.  Obviously, it isn't something that happens often, but the warnings against blankets exist for a reason.  The idea of being cocky about not baby-proofing is just ridiculous: "I'm lazy, and my children got lucky, so it's fine."  What?![/quote]

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