| Cot mobiles are a nursery staple: baby room | | | | baby needs some visual stimulation. |
| decoration has changed alot in the last 40 years, but | | | | Some experts feel that babies enjoy and learn best |
| this is one thing that seems to remain a constant. | | | | when objects are suspended within view. Mobiles are |
| Should you add this feature to your baby's sleeping | | | | indeed popular: you find them everywhere in baby |
| area? Read on and make up your mind. | | | | stores, and most of us had one as a baby ourselves. |
| Some people say that infants are already overloaded | | | | Can so many people really be so wrong? |
| with equipment and toys, and don't need any more. It is | | | | Further weight to this argument is provided by a |
| true that newborns are presented with more and | | | | fascinating study was carried out some time ago. A |
| more baby paraphernalia than ever before. There is | | | | loosely tied ribbon around a young baby's ankle was |
| something about a new baby: it seems people cannot | | | | attached to a mobile, so that when the infant moved |
| resist present buying on an ever-increasing scale. | | | | their leg, they also moved the mobile. This was |
| Any new parent will tell you how touched they are | | | | repeated with many babies and it soon became |
| that virtual strangers and out-of-touch relatives never | | | | apparent that they understood the cause and effect |
| fail to surprise them with generous baby shower gifts. | | | | relationship (i.e. 'I know that I am controlling the mobile'). |
| Such generosity is to be commended, but can lead to | | | | What is more, the babies absolutely loved being able |
| waste and/or unnecessary baby items filling an | | | | to control the mobile in this way, and previously |
| already chaotic home. | | | | unresponsive infants started to smile more regularly for |
| Let's look at the argument in favour of the cot mobile. | | | | example. |
| Firstly, mobiles are generally very colorful, and the | | | | This is only one study and the results should be |
| advantages of high-contrast patterns for newborn | | | | treated with caution, but it is interesting food for |
| visual development has been well researched. A | | | | thought. |
| mobile is especially attractive to a baby lying in an | | | | While not everybody agrees on the value of having |
| otherwise completely pastel nursery. Soft color | | | | cot mobiles in the nursery, the evidence in favor |
| schemes are good, but not the whole story. Every | | | | definitely outweighs the arguments against them. |