Buttons on a baby sweater

[itsazoo]

I am working on a baby sweater (my very first sweater and first time using a pattern ). I have the button hole side done and I started thinking about the buttons. The button holes are tiny and thus the buttons will have to be tiny too. But is it safe to put tiny buttons on something a baby is going to wear? I don't want to cause a safety issue.

Is there a way to "make" a button with yarn?

Any help/thoughts on this are greatly appreciated.

[gardenmommy]

Could you put a short piece of I-cord, attached in the middle on the button side to correspond with the buttonhole, and one end of the cord would pass through buttonhole, and then they would get tied together, instead of a button? Kind of like this...