Cribs have changed recently: new standards have removed all drop-side cribs from the market. This means trading off the risk of injury from collapsing drop-side mechanisms for the risk of injury from parents falling off the stepstools that are becoming more popular as a way to actually reach into the new cribs when the mattress height is lowered for toddlers. And shopping isn’t easy, since photos and store displays all show off cribs filled with bumpers and blankets and toys. We aren’t supposed to put anything in the crib other than the baby for the first year.
As we shopped for cribs, we discovered that our favorite crib at each store always either had a white finish or a natural light wood finish (and a store never had more than one in natural). We’ve tentatively chosen this fairly simple crib:
It’s quite heavy (made of solid maple), so it should survive for a few years. And we like the fact that we can pick it up a few weeks after we order it. At many stores we went to, cribs can take several months to arrive from distant lands. We’re too excited to wait that long.
