If you are anything like me, when you got pregnant, one of the first thing you did was start to plan the nursery. I spent days hopping from website to website meticulously researching every single item that went on my registry. Car seats are understandable, but did I really need to read reviews to pick out the best hairbrush? So I went a little crazy :) I had wanted to be a mom for a very long time and was beyond excited!
One of the things I spent the longest time looking for the "perfect" one was the bedding set. We were finding out if it was a boy or a girl, but I didn't want a "girly" room, even if it was a girl (it was). The room was painted a soft cream color with curtains and an area ring that were a floral pattern in Williamsburg blue and brown. And it was going to stay that way. I finally found a bedding set that I fell in love with. A white background that was embroidered with a tree and all kinds of little animals in and around the tree with white and green striped sheets. My mom and mother-in-law gave it to me as a shower gift. It completed the nursery perfectly!
My baby girl arrived (a month early) and slept in a cradle in our room the first four weeks. It was time to move her to her crib and reality started to set in. Was I really going to keep the oh-so-cute bumper set on the crib and risk my baby suffocating? Of course not! But the bumpers were adorable and made the room. I'm not superficial enough that I would put my baby in harm's way for looks. And only four or five people ever saw the room on a regular basis, although I was spending quite a lot of time there, awake in the night with a one month old. I also don't like to waste money so I didn't want to put the bumpers in a closet and never use them again. I knew there had to be a solution.
I can't take 100% credit for this idea but after searching the internet for ideas I came up with this.
Tie the bumpers to the outside bottom of the crib. You actually see the design better and they hide the mattress edges. (I just retied them and they need a little adjusting to snug them tight to the edges and get rid of the pull in the middle.) I love this solution and hope it gives you some ideas!