I did baby quilts for my twins and it was a bit stiff and heavy. Maybe try Hobbs 80/20 or something. But I think that might need more quilting. I found quilting with Minky as backing something I did not want to do a repeat of. Hopefully some one has some good ideas but I just wanted to let you know I was not all together happy with the warm and natural as batting with Minky as batting. I do think the Minky would be wonderful for this little boy.