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The baby playpen is designed to protect the safety of the baby and can provide a relatively safe space for activities. However, playing in a playpen for extended periods of time is not ideal. Here’s some information about playpens for long periods of play:
Your baby's development requires a variety of stimulation: Staying in a playpen for a long time may limit your baby's range of activities and stimulation, and fail to provide enough diverse stimulation and exploration opportunities. Babies need the freedom to crawl, explore and interact with people and objects around them in different environments to promote their physical and cognitive development.
Spending long periods of time in a playpen can lead to dissatisfaction and restlessness: Babies need close connections and emotional connections with their parents and other family members. Spending long periods of time in a portable playpen can lead to feelings of loneliness and dissatisfaction in your baby, as they are deprived of close interaction and contact with family members.
The playpen should be used as a monitoring tool rather than a long-term entertainment facility: the main purpose of the playpen is to protect the safety of the baby and allow parents to complete some housework or other tasks in a short period of time. They are not designed to be a place for babies to stay and play in for long periods of time.
Although a playpen can provide a certain amount of safety and supervision, your baby's development requires more freedom and diverse stimulation. Therefore, parents are advised to provide a safe, open environment for their babies to play, allowing them to crawl, explore and interact with people and objects around them freely.
Playpens are usually used when babies are 4 months old. This is because during this period, the baby's salivary glands begin to mature, resulting in increased drooling. Bibs can help absorb saliva. However, most babies start learning to crawl when they are 5 to 7 months old. At this time, parents usually buy crawling mats and playpens to protect the baby from injury while crawling. Bed guardrails can be used from when your baby is five or six months old to over two years old. Some babies can turn over or even crawl when they are three months old, so some parents will start using bed rails when their babies are five months old.
Based on the above information, the baby playpen can be used from the time the baby is four or five months old until the baby is about two years old. However, the specific usage time needs to be determined based on the actual development of the baby and the family environment.
Nowadays, more and more baby products are appearing in people's sight, which allows parents to leave their babies alone with peace of mind. Crawling mats and playpens are common baby products. One is to allow the baby to crawl on the mat and avoid injury. The other is to surround the baby within a certain area to prevent the baby from crawling to other places and causing danger.
If you want to buy a crawling mat fence for your baby, you should usually buy it before the baby learns to crawl, because these fences are usually made of plastic. After buying them first, put them in an open place for a period of time to remove some bad smells. And it must be disinfected before use. Sometimes babies will touch the fence directly with their mouths to prevent bacteria from entering.
