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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Which kinds are your kids wearing? My 2 year old was too small for the toddler mask we bought him. And my 4 year old had a big gap around her nose...[/quote]

We struggled to find masks to fit our 2-year-old daughter as well. I wound up finding a 2-pack of masks in the checkout line at Whole Foods one day, and bought them because they had some in pink and my daughter had been asking for a pink mask. Well after I washed them, they fit her perfectly. They are very soft cotton and have a little pinched gather where the nose goes, so they are comfortable and don't come up too high (all the other masks we have found for her come up to her eyeballs). They didn't have a brand on them, but I would check Whole Foods to see if yours carries them. I also think the sets from Maisonette look like they might be the same brand.

I will say these masks seem thinner than the ones my husband and I wear -- they appear to be just two layers of fabric instead of three, and no place to put a filter. But I don't worry about it as much with her -- we very rarely take her indoors anywhere public (maybe a couple short trips into CVS during one of our walks), and when we do she is generally in her stroller so we can keep her away from others. The main reason we have her wear the masks is to get her used to them because we have no idea how long we'll be wearing them. Plus it's been a good way to just normalize her seeing other people wearing them and has just become a part of our lives, along with more frequent and thorough hand washing and social distancing. We figure the more normal it all feels the less likely it is to impact her developmentally. Because she's so young, I sometimes think she the one of us least affected by this whole thing.[/quote]

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