Cribs | Grammy's Corner

Kid’s Rooms: A New Time, A New Crib

Mom Putting Baby In Crib

As I watch the grandchildren play with their toys, I think about the changes in our society through the years. The changes have even affected our children. You can hand a child a simple toy, and they look at it, waiting for it to do something. Many times they don’t know how to be creative with it. Where is the button to push, or slide? Is it remote control? Is it a video? Our society has become so high tech, I knew that one day it would happen. We have remote control beds for adults. There is now a remote control bed for babies. Yes, really! Of course, the parent works the remote. I guess you could say the remote is for the parent and the bed is for the baby!!!

4-in-1 Wonder Crib

Dream on Me has a Patent Pending for a next generation of crib unmatched by anything in the market to date. The Wonder Crib is the first electronic crib, designed to move the crib mattress smoothly and gently up and down with the ability to stop the mattress height at any desired level. For those Fathers that like to play with gadgets, I can see one of you working the remote, while the bed goes up and down, up and down…..

Most cribs have a maximum of 4 mattress height adjustments that require a manual and labor intensive process to change. The Wonder Crib mattress height can be moved electronically to any desired height. You can leave your child safely in the crib while raising and lowering the crib. Simply press the two buttons as per instructions, located on the side of the crib and move the mattress to desired height.

Wonder Crib Buttons

(At least there is not a remote that could be left in the bed for the baby to play with by mistake.) This allows for easy access for lifting baby, saving your back from injury. With stationary rail cribs mandatory, this crib takes the strain out of reaching deep inside the crib to lift your baby. This sounds perfect for those of us that are short in stature. Reaching over the rail was one issue, but trying to reach to the mattress level to reach the baby was another issue altogether. I had to get a stool to stand on to reach inside the crib for the baby. I was extremely thankful when he learned to stand up and reach up to me!! This new Wonder Crib solves this particular problem. Just push the button, raise the mattress up until you can easily remove the baby. Oh, thank you Dream on Me.

3-in-1 Wonder Crib

Another advantage of the electronic mattress adjustment makes changing sheets easy and effortless. Also, raising the mattress up to the highest level transforms the Wonder Crib into a changing table. This feature saves you the space of adding a changing table. It doesn’t stop there! The Wonder Crib 3-in-1 converts to a toddler bed with safety rail

included. The Wonder Crib 4-in-1 converts from crib to toddler day bed to a full size bed (bedrails and mattress sold separately). By purchasing a convertible crib, it saves you time and money of purchasing all of these items separately.

Wonder Crib Full Bed3-in-1 Wonder Crib in Black

The Wonder Crib uses a 12- volt converter and safely plugs into any 110 outlet. Made of Pinewood, the Lead-Free, Wonder Crib comes in 6 non-toxic finishes to match any décor.
It takes a standard crib mattress that is sold separately. ASTM and JPMA Certified.
Patent Pending

The Wonder Crib will definitely be the crib of the future. It is designed for today’s nurseries. With the six available colors, it will go with any nursery theme you plan.

Kids Rooms: Bumper Pads

This past week I came across an article that surprised me. What is our government coming to? Maryland health officials proposed banning the sale of crib bumper pads for infants starting January 2013, a move that would make Maryland the first state in the nation to block the products from the market. In Maryland, the state’s chief medical examiner has attributed one child asphyxiation case to a crib bumper! Just one! And after two meetings they decide they can’t wait on officials to make the decision that bumper pads are risky. And Chicago became the first city in the U.S. to ban the sale of crib bumper pads. The City Council approved the ordinance, which was introduced after Chicago Tribune investigations suggested bumpers pose a suffocation risk to babies.Please! I can think of a list of ten items that pose a suffocation risk to babies. Are we going to ban babies sleeping with their mothers? Babies wrapped up in blankets? Bumper pads serve as a safety measure to protect tiny arms and legs from becoming entrapped between bars. Now, they are reporting they are a suffocation risk.

Tropical Seas Crib Set

The Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association maintains that crib bumper pads can help prevent injury when used correctly, and the ordinance which proposes to ban bumpers in the City of Chicago and Maryland could bring unintended consequences if crib bumper pads are not made available to parents and caregivers. I can see parents rolling up blankets to put around the crib or stuffed animals, which is worse! In March of 2011, Innovative Science Solutions (ISS) announced that a thorough review of published scientific studies performed for JPMA revealed no direct evaluation of a relationship between crib bumper pad use and infant death. The Exponent study said “Investigations into sleep environments of infants consistently fail to identify crib bumpers as a unique or separate source of serious injury or death to sleeping infants. Studies focusing efforts on evaluating sleep-related hazards generally, and crib bumpers explicitly, similarly do not find crib bumpers to be a significant risk.” Consequently, the JPMA is urging the State of Maryland to adopt regulations consistent with the use of safe, traditional, non-pillow like crib bumper pads.

Nantucket Pink

Traditional crib bumpers, when used properly, can help prevent limb entrapments and head injuries. Follow these quick tips for the safe use of traditional bumper pads:

Secure ties to outside of crib
Keep bumper upright and in position
Bumper ties no longer than 9″
Remove bumper when child can sit up unaided or pull to standing position

Crib bedding sets continue to include bumper pads as part of the set. They will protect our precious little ones from bumping their head and poking arms and legs between the bars. Remember to remove the bumper pads when your child begins to pull up to a standing position, because the bumper pad provides an extra step to try to climb out of the crib. Otherwise, the bumper pads add to the complete room décor. At Babyiture.com we offer designer quality crib bedding in many styles and designs for nurseries today.

Max Dot 4 Piece Nursery Set

Kid’s Safety: New Crib Safety Standards

Triplet baby boys standing in crib

The last few years the Consumer Product Safety Commission committed themselves to improving the safety of our children’s products. On December 17, 2010 the CPSI voted unanimously to approve new mandatory safety standards for full-size and non-full-size baby cribs take effect June 28, 2011. These standards which are essentially the same as the voluntary standards developed by ASTM International are designed to stop the manufacture and sale of traditional drop-side cribs, make mattress supports stronger, make crib hardware more durable and make safety testing more rigorous. Under the CPSIA cribs are defined to include new and used cribs, full-size and non-full-size cribs, portable cribs, crib pens, and playards.

The crib standards are different from standards for the other durable infant or toddler products because they apply not only to manufacturers, retailers, and distributors but also owners and operators of child care facilities, family childcare homes, and places of public accommodation such as hotels and motels. Cribs manufactured, sold or leased in the U.S. on and after June 28 will have to comply with the new standards. In addition, day care centers will be required to replace over the next two years any cribs that do not comply with the new regulations. Nancy A. Cowles, executive director of Kids In Danger, a nonprofit organization that monitors the safety of children’s products, said the new crib standards were “a huge leap forward” after years of relative inaction by the safety commission.

Starting in March, parents will be able to do in-depth research on products. The Consumer Product Safety Commission is creating a new database in which parents can search for complaints about the safety of specific products. Scott Wolfson, a commission spokesman, said consumers would be able to search for safety complaints

Baby Standing in a Crib

about a stroller, a crib or a high chair. As it stands, consumers don’t learn about safety problems until a product is recalled.

Most of our children product manufacturers redesigned their cribs to cooperate

Deluxe Toddler Day Bed

with CPSC voluntarily. Many of the new cribs are multifunctional in several ways. Dream On Me has a portable, convertible crib that easily converts to a toddler day bed and twin size bed growing with your child. It is the ideal solution for those small areas that are unable to accommodate a full size crib. It features a stationary side rail on the crib with three-position mattress support. This 3-in-1 solid wood portable crib is a modern, yet classic style crib designed to transform with your child as they grow. This Dream On Me high density firm 3 inch foam portable crib mattress will provide your baby with a comfortable and restful sleep.

Solid Wood 3-in-1 Portable Crib

Rest easy knowing this mattress is 100% Bedbug Free and constructed with quality materials and workmanship in the USA.

As long as our manufacturers are safety conscious and our parents are safety conscious, then we can keep our children SAFE.