When I was with my mother to visit with our baby and said that we practice at home for crawling always use our gym mat, my mother took equal her exercise mat out and I was on the size so excited that I us such a great mat same I even ordered. Although our old mat is nice and thick, but unfortunately only narrow and long. This mat is perfect for babies! If our little one lying on his stomach, he spits gelegentlch some milk from (probably familiar to most parents). Krabbeldecken are therefore very fast again ready for the washing machine, but in the exercise mat reaches a wipe with 'a damp cloth. The mat is nice and big, so the baby is not next to it is the same again, if there has been a few centimeters forward or it has managed to turn around. The head then falls when turning and soft. And such a mat not knautscht up under little baby hands, as the newly Krabbeldecken do. In addition, the mat is a really great thermal insulation down so it stays nice and warm even in colder surface on the mat. Our Little uses the mat every day and we adults run continuously over it, sometimes on socks, sometimes with slippers. So far, the mat is still as good as new and I have a feeling that the mat will keep a long time. After unpacking the smell was really minimal and was then evaporated quite quickly. Zur Matte there is a carrying strap, but since our mat remains lying on the ground all day rolled out, we have not yet needed. If our little one is from the crawling stage addition, the mat will probably wander from the living room into the nursery. How long it lasts then, remains to be seen. But if it should be over sometime, I'd probably get the same mat again because for the price since you can not go wrong really.