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I have an older Child Craft crib with double drop sides. It has metal bars that screw on and then there's holes in the sides and they slide along the metal bars. There is nothing to break, no possible way the side can drop off or fall off the track. Can't they go back to the "old way" of making cribs? It does squeak a little when you lower the side but not too bad. Honestly, I only drop the side when I change the sheets anyway but it's certainly easier to do with the side down.
Fantastic if you don't need your government to protect you, your kids are very lucky to have competant parents. Not all kids are so lucky. I have cared for, on a day to day basis, some of the children that are not so lucky. Kids that were born otherwise perfectly healthy, but because their parents were not educated or attentive, through no fault of the child's, the child is now bed bound. Bed bound, and tube fed. Some of them with tubes in their throats to help them breath, others with machines breathing for them. I have sat and rocked 4 years olds who have the developemental level of 6 months, they will never run and play, slide down a slide, ride a bus to school, play soccer or take dance lessons. So, excuse me if I have a different viewpoint on government regulations, in cases of the safety of defenseless children.
This is, btw, the same government that regulates car seat laws that we all get so upset about when we see parents not following even the bare minimums of the law.
I have a 1998 Bassett dropside crib that I "inherited" from my sister. I think it would be impossible for it to fail like the pictures from the CPSC show - it has all metal parts & there are multiple bolts holding the hardware that lets the side slide up & down. My only worry has been the side dropping if my son were to shake it really hard (when he gets bigger). That mechanism is very different though & not what the CPSC is recalling cribs over.
I am 5'8" and I can't imagine not being able to drop the side when DS was a newborn & I was recovering from a c/s!
drop side cribs have been around for 40+ years. They've only become a problem in the last 10 or so. The answer isn't banning them - it's requiring a higher standard of safety.:twocents:
If you purchase new items for your baby - you don't need it. Send in the registration card, they'll alert you of any recalls. If you buy it used, hit the library and use the internet to register it, if possible, or each time you buy something used of substance (baby monitor, bouncy seat, crib, stroller, high chair) check it out online at cpsc.gov or on the manufacturer website. It will tell you if there's been a recall.
Get me a picture please.
I hear piano hinge and I see this hinge going the entire length of the crib -- and thus becoming a step. But I can't find a picture so maybe I'm picturing it wrong.
How about holding former CEO's/Upper management of these now defunct companies criminally responsible when their products' designs kill children or their cut rate manufacturing process poison them with lead paint?
Do you trust the people in Washington to stop before crossing that invisible line between protecting children and telling you how to parent? Or between telling you how to parent and telling you how to live? I don't. That was never meant to be their job.
A crib's quality is not regulated or overseen by any government agency, is that correct?
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