When picking a mattress for your child, it’s crucial to keep in mind that it will reasonably grow by a significant margin before the mattress requires to be replaced. As a result, parents may want to reconsider larger sizes to ensure their children won’t outgrow their beds.
Although a ‘Medium Firm’ design is generally regarded the most popular, it usually pretends the sleeper is an adult of average weight (between 130 and 230 pounds). Every kid will have different firmness preferences, and they’ll usually find a softer mattress to be more comfortable when they’re more youthful and still to grow.
You can also choose mattress firmness according to your child’s body weight and favored sleep position. It’s important to note that children who scale less than 130 pounds tend to feel most relaxed on mattresses that are ‘Soft’ to ‘Medium.’ In opposition, heavier children typically prefer mattresses that are ‘Medium’ to ‘Firm.’
Concerning sleep position, side sleepers find softer mattresses to be more convenient, between ‘Soft’ and ‘Medium Firm,’ or a 3 to 6 on the 1-to-10 scale. A smoother mattress surface provides wider and heavier parts of the body to sink lower into the mattress, ensuring healthy spinal alliance for the side sleeping position. Stomach sleepers typically favor firmer mattress surfaces to prevent their pelvis from falling too profoundly and pulling the spinal alignment. Back sleepers make things simple, as they usually enjoy the widely accepted ‘Medium Firm’ setting.
Durability is essential for selecting a child's mattress because there is a great chance they will grow significantly during the bed's lifespan. As such, parents may not want to invest in a long-lasting, potentially costlier mattress (such as a latex or airbed model) and may opt for a cheaper, less durable model instead (such as an innerspring or memory foam mattress). However, models prone to early sagging may not be a good choice since sagging can impact a mattress's supportiveness.
Parents who are worried about their child bouncing on their mattress (and potentially hurting themselves) may want to choose a mattress made of foam and latex with no spring components and soft to medium firmness. These mattresses are not very responsive and offer little to no bounce, reducing the child's risk of getting hurt.
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