...does your LO's arms/legs ever get stuck in the crib slats? We have breathable bumpers on our DD's crib right now but I'm sick and tired of the fact that they don't match her crib sheet. It's a total first world problem, I realize. 
They matched for our first LO and now, with a girl, it looks pretty dreadful. My husband is insistent that if I take them down (he was the one who wanted them up with our first) that she will get stuck in the slats.
Has this happened to your LO or no?
cantaloupe / 6869 posts
We took our breathable bumpers off when he tried to climb them! They've been off for about three months and he hasn't once got a limb stuck in the slats.
pomegranate / 3779 posts
Never happened to us and she is 14 months. She does stick her feet through, but she has never gotten stuck.
wonderful cherry / 21504 posts
We have never had them and she has never gotten a limb stuck. She will stick a hand or foot through but she can always pull it back out. She is 18 months now and has always been a very active sleeper. She's also never whacked her head hard on the slats, which is what u was more afraid of.
persimmon / 1328 posts
LO sleeps in a sleep sack so that takes care of his legs, but he's never once got his arms stuck. He moves around a lot in his cot and I've seen him with hands / arms through the holes, but he always gets them back in with no drama. He's 13 months and never had bumpers 
GOLD / watermelon / 14076 posts
Maybe once? She's 17.5 months. She does like to sleep with her limbs through the slats sometimes (weirdo!), but I think I've only had to help her once.
GOLD / wonderful coconut / 33402 posts
Never had any and only once her feet were through the slats. But we saw it before we went to bed and moved her. I think she would have been fine to get out herself, since was like 18months old.
pear / 1809 posts
I never used bumpers, and my son has only gotten his arm stuck once. It was really no big deal. He started crying, I came in, and then I helped him move his arm out. There was no bruising or anything. I'm not sure if it was really stuck or if he just didn't know how to pull his arm out himself. Anyway, it never happened again.
grapefruit / 4418 posts
We've never had any bumpers on and my daughter has gotten stuck where she needed rescued maybe three times total in the past 11 months.
grapefruit / 4988 posts
We've never had bumpers. We don't worry about legs too much since she's always in a sleep sack. Sometimes she sticks her arms through but she never gets stuck.
nectarine / 2521 posts
There was a brief period around 4-5 months that he would get his legs stuck during naptime. We did sleep sacks at night, so it wasn't an issue, and I just started putting him in sleep sacks for naptime too and it worked well.
eggplant / 11716 posts
We've never had bumpers, but our 18 month old still wears a sleep sack, so no issues!
cantaloupe / 6059 posts
Okay, that settles it: the hideous non-matching bumpers are coming down!
watermelon / 14206 posts
It has only happened once and it wasn't a major deal. He just couldn't figure out how to get out of it.
pomegranate / 3858 posts
It's never happened, and LO is 25 months. She does wear a sleep sack though...
pineapple / 12566 posts
We've never used bumpers. DS got stuck maybe once and DD has never been stuck.
pear / 1849 posts
He's almost 2.5 and never got stuck once. I don't think I've ever even seen an arm hanging out or anything.
blogger / persimmon / 1231 posts
@coopsmama: her leg got stuck pretty tightly shortly after our breathable bumpers came off but we weren't in bed yet so I heard her crying and helped her
papaya / 10343 posts
yea it happened all the time at first when she started rolling and sitting up a lot. Like at least a few times per week (counting all naps and bed time because we stay home). But it wasn't really a big deal. She'd get stuck and I'd go unstick her and move on with our lives. Now at 8 mo I can't remember the last time she got stuck. Probably a month ago or more.
pear / 1531 posts
I took my breathable bumpers off the other day because I caught him trying to stand on them to propel himself over the crib (in case you need another argument to your husband). He hasn't gotten anything caught since, but he does sometimes toss his loveys or wubbanubs overboard now.
grapefruit / 4278 posts
He would stick an arm or leg out all the time, but it only ever got stuck once. He wasn't hurt, just scared that he was stuck. If was going to be an ongoing problem, I would have put a bumper up. But since it only happened once, I didn't bother with it.
apricot / 305 posts
LO is 19 months and we've never had bumpers in her crib. I think she only got stuck once and that was when she was standing up, not when she was laying down or sleeping.
grapefruit / 4213 posts
LO is 15 months old, never had a crib bumper on either crib in the nursery or her new bedroom, and has never gotten any appendage stuck.
GOLD / wonderful olive / 19030 posts
We used breathable for about 3 months, and then she was trying to use them as a stepping stone and our doc said to take them out that she doesn't recommend them. I explained her leg is always through and she said she'd prefer that to a broken skull, I agreed
clementine / 750 posts
We have never had a bumper of any sort and she has never gotten stuck. She two but in a sleep sack at night but not during Nap. She never took a binky or paci so no issue with losing those. Also at daycare bumpers aren't allowed in the cribs by law.
pomegranate / 3272 posts
We never had a problem with not having bumpers. Although, for the first 7 month of DS's life, he slept in a pack n play due to living in our tiny condo and he did like to sleep with his face up against the side. I did have a friend who's daughter would only sleep well for naps with both her legs sticking out of the crib.
hostess / papaya / 10219 posts
Never had a bumper and no limbs ever got stuck during sleep. A couple of times he got a leg stuck when we were in the room with him and he was purposefully sticking his leg through, and I just helped him. But during sleep, no. Never.
pomelo / 5628 posts
Once in two years, but I could see it on the monitor and fix it. He was probably around a year or so when it happened. It was not tight or dangerous, he just couldn't figure out how to back up to get it out. (Leg)
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