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Expert Q&A:
Is it okay for my 14-month-old to sleep in his playpen?

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Linda Jonides
Answered by Linda Jonides R.N., C.P.N.P.
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"I have worked as a pediatric nurse practitioner (P.N.P.) for over 30 years," says Linda Jonides. "I continue to thoroughly enjoy forming new relationships with parents and newborns and working with them through infancy, childhood, and adolescence."

Linda Jonides is a pediatric nurse practitioner in a private pediatric practice in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She received her Diploma in Nursing and Certificate as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner from The Johns Hopkins Hospital. She is a past recipient of the Michigan PNP of the Year Award. She has a B.S. in Nursing from Eastern Michigan University. She has published articles and lectured on childhood obesity, infant colic, role of the P.N.P., growth and development issues, and infectious diseases. She was an author of "Clinical Insights Column," published biannually in the Journal of Pediatric Health Care for nine years. Jonides is past president of NAPNAP. Currently, she is a steering group work member of NAPNAP's HEAT (healthy eating and activity together) project. One outcome of this group's work is the clinical practice guideline, "Identifying and Preventing Overweight in Childhood," that was published as a supplement to the March/April '06 issue of the Journal of Pediatric Health Care.

Ms. Jonides has been married to John, a university professor, since 1971.
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My 14-month-old son has been sleeping in his playpen (with two layers of baby blankets under him) for a few months now. We do have a crib, but my husband started to paint his room and hasn't gotten to finish it. Is it okay for my baby to sleep in the playpen, without the support of a mattress for this amount of time? It may be another two months.

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If your son seems to be comfortable sleeping in the playpen, it shouldn't be a problem for him to be without a mattress for a few more months. Obviously a mattress provides more support than blankets do, but infants and toddlers seem to do just fine sleeping on a variety of surfaces. I would actually be more concerned about his safety. Make sure the playpen isn't near furniture or boxes that would allow him to climb out of it, and check that there are no strings or ties in or near the playpen that he could possible get tangled in.
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