Should you go green and buy an all-natural latex mattress for the baby? What everyone wants after all is to provide the best for their loved ones.

What Are Your Options?

1. Foam Material
a. Natural Latex Mattress
b. Synthetic Latex Mattress

These choices are basically a matter of whether you worry about the synthetic chemicals that may harm you and your family vis a vis your budget constraints.

c. Dunlop Latex Mattress
d. Talalay Latex Mattress

Whether you will go for natural or synthetic, another choice to make is how you want the latex processed.

2. Mattress Construction
a. Organic?
b. Fiber filled?
c. With perimeter support?

Once tightly wrapped in beautiful and soft encasing, you wouldn’t know what went inside your mattress. So, knowing what to ask is important in protecting yourself from buying what you actually don’t want in the first place.

Fiber-filled mattress will keep the price low but the disadvantage is shorter life span of your mattress and the possibility of lumps after a few years.

The perimeter support will give you firmer perimeter but the material that is normally used consists of synthetically produced polyurethane. Polyurethane materials don’t “breathe” and therefore warmer to the body. Polyurethane also is not dust mite resistant and aren’t hypo allergenic. So, if you’re sensitive to allergens, perimeter support is not advisable for you.

A latex mattress is considered organic at least if:
- natural latex mattress is used
- organic fabric is used in encasing the foam

You normally have 3 choices when buying latex foam mattresses:
1. medium softness
2. firm
3. very firm

Things to Consider in Buying Crib Latex Mattress

Nobody can tell you what is best for you except your body. The problem with buying stuffs for babies is that they can’t tell you what they need and want; nor complain if they aren’t comfortable. All you can do is to guess the reason why they are crying.

You want a mattress that is not too warm for your baby. And of course you don’t want your baby getting sick and showing allergic reactions or having rashes due to mites, and mildews.

Babies don’t need very thick crib latex mattress. 5 inches may do for them.

Best Latex Mattress

Crib Latex Mattress: Go Green! Go Organic!

Queen Latex Mattress: For adults, whether double, queen or king latex mattress, it is not advisable to go for fiber filled or to have perimeter support.

After all, if you buy a good Talalay natural latex mattress beautifully encased in organic cotton or wool fabric, what else would you need?