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The impending arrival of your new family member is an exciting and busy time with all the planning and preparing. Aside from all the baby gear you need to think about, planning the baby nursery is usually tops on the list. You’ll probably be converting a guest bedroom or spare room and wondering how it will miraculously change into your baby’s haven. Coming up with a baby nursery idea can either be fun or stressful. Hopefully, this article will help make the process of planning your baby nursery theme fun!

There are hundreds of baby nursery themes out there to consider. Knowing the sex of your child may make this process a little easier; however there are great neutral nursery themes out there, as well. Your best place to get ideas is from, yup, you guessed it - the Internet! All you need to do it get to your favorite search engine and type in baby nursery and see all the great ideas pop up in front of your eyes.

If you haven’t purchased any magazines yet, run out to the nearest bookstore and browse through the multitude of pregnancy and baby periodicals that are available. You are sure to come across volumes of great baby nursery themes. Once you narrow down your theme, it’s important to take a good look at the baby nursery bedding that is the focus of your theme ideas. You’ll want to make sure that the theme is something you can live with for a couple of years. Even though something may be all the rage right now, you may look at it next year and wonder what you were thinking.

A good suggestion is to go with a baby nursery theme that is simple or evokes a calming feeling. There are some really fun prints out there, but the last thing you want to do is over stimulate your baby. Take it from me; the last thing you want is a baby who won’t fall asleep! I would personally veto any vibrant reds or really loud color schemes; go for the pastels or calming colors such as blues and greens. Any little bit will help to be sure your baby is sleeping peacefully!

If this isn’t your first child, you may wish to consult with the baby’s sibling(s). You’d be surprised at the great baby nursery idea you may get from a child’s point of view. This process will also help to have big brother or big sis feel a part of the new baby’s arrival. They will feel they contributed something important and I’m sure they will love to share their accomplishments with the extended family! Children’s imaginations are so wonderful, I’m sure they would think of something you never would! That being said, you may want to think twice about asking them their opinion on a baby name; my niece wanted to name my baby Cougar.

This is a great time in your life, so have fun planning for you new addition, and try not to stress about it. Whatever the baby nursery bedding or theme you decide upon, your new addition will be happy with your decision.

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Baby nursery furniture and baby crib sets are a growing category, representing $1.1 billion at retail last year, and expected to grow to $1.4 billion by 2009. Today’s baby furniture varies quite a bit in style, price and selection, and at over a billion dollars, there is room for a wide range of manufacturers in the nursery furniture field.

There are many top manufacturers in the nursery furniture category. The baby furniture category includes nursery furniture for children from birth through 2 years, including painted baby furniture, nursery crib furniture, bassinets, a baby table for changing diapers, glider rockers, rocking chairs, dressers, chests, armoires and bookcases. Basically anything you would purchase at a baby store while furniture shopping.

Although most of the parents claimed that they mostly shopped at discount stores they admittedly would make more extravagant purchases at a specialty baby store if there was something they really wanted. A Gen X mom talked about children strollers. She paid $300 for a stroller because she liked the features. So if a parent is willing to spend $300 on a stroller which is typically a smaller ticket item in comparison to nursery furniture what are they willing to spend on a nursery crib, an item that’s use is far more than the use of a stroller.

Things like blankets, strollers, a nursery crib mattress, a toddler bed and accessories or items that would be bought for nursery gifts or baby gifts, or furniture for children over the age of 2 are not included in the category being discussed as leading infant bedroom furniture manufacturers. This is primarily nursery furniture for babies 2 and under in the strictest sense of the word.

According to Kids Today’s exclusive Buying Trends Survey, 2.2% of U.S. households bought a nursery crib in 2004, and 2.7% bought other baby furniture. The median price point for a nursery crib in 2004 was $150, with those consumers planning to buy a nursery crib in 2005 saying they planned to spend a median of $200. Even still, 18% of consumers who bought a nursery crib in 2004 paid $500 or more.

What this tells me is that although 18% of parents purchasing a nursery crib probably planned to purchase practically but when push came to shove they were willing to spend on average and extra $300 above and beyond what they initially planned to spend. Why is this? Is it because we are seduced by all the new-fangled cribs such as the newer style of the round crib and the BRAND-NEW Corner cribs (shaped to fit in a corner)? It is common knowledge that the median prices of these specialty cribs cost much more than the traditional rectangle cribs. As far as infant furniture goes round baby cribs are a fairly new concept. I do not even remember them being available when I had my first child. Since a separate room for a baby nursery is not always an option some parents feel that the round baby cribs and corner cribs which is a new concept is the way to go, they are both big space savers.

It could also be because parents are willing to purchase the top of the line 3-in-1 cribs in hopes that they will save money in the long run? Or quite possibly is it because parents will spend just about anything on their children, trying to provide everything they were never given?

Obviously a nursery crib is the most important purchase you will make for your childalong with the rest of the nursery furniture. Nursery Furniture Manufacturers know this and cater our need to give our child “everything”. That is why nursery furniture and nursery crib sets are such a booming market!

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Teresa Schahczinski is a frequent contributor to Best Baby Furniture. For more Articles and tips on Selecting Childrens Furniture, Baby Cribs and Kids Furniture visit Nursery Furniture

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Are you still trying to decide what you want to be when you grow up? Well knock it off!

Let’s see, your options are leaching off your parents till you’re 30 and then trying to find a career when you’re way too old and nobody wants to deal with you. That’s stupid! Or, if you like people,and you want to help people then you can find out how to become a Nurse.

Nursing careers are one of the fastest and most IN Demand Careers right now, and it isn’t going to stop anytime soon. Not by a longshot. In fact the demand for nurses and healthcare workers is going to keep going up and up until at least year 2012. In fact it’s going to double.

Right now, since the career is in such high demand, wages have gone up to try to bring people in. That’s nice right? So how much does a nurse make you ask? (I’m assuming you’re asking.)

About $45,000 is the national average. About $20 bucks an hour if you’re an emergency room nurse. Not bad eh? Beats finding change in your couch.

The only way to get there is to go to school. Yeah that part sucks I know, but you can do it from home for alot of it, so hey, you can still leach off your parents for a while, and stay at home. You’ll have a great excuse. Here’s a great place to start if you’re totally lost on how to become a nurse.

It’s really not hard at all, just go to “Associate Degree” on the first menu, and “Health Care” on the next and you’re in. It’s just to recieve info and that’s it.

You’re not committed yet. Unless you want to hurry up and get out of your parents friggin house that is.

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