How to Choose Good Quality Baby Cribs

!±8± How to Choose Good Quality Baby Cribs

New parents often wonder how they can find good quality baby cribs and what constitutes a good baby crib? There is a lot of information out there but it's often hard to filter through it all and find good, helpful information that you can actually understand. In this article I will discuss a little bit about how you can tell if a baby crib is good quality are not so you can feel confident about any decision you make when buying a new baby crib.

Generally the lowest end of the baby cribs spectrum, meaning the cheapest cribs, are not good quality as they are constructed of cheap materials that are meant to save money more than to ensure quality. In saying this I'm not saying that you cannot find a good deal, I am simply saying you need to be cautious with very cheap cribs. I would suggest instead getting a midrange crib that will at least ensure some quality.

Once you've found a baby crib you like you can also do a search on the Internet to see what other parents had to say about after they bought it. This is very useful as it gives you first-hand experience with the crib before ever having ever owned it. Another thing you can do is run a search on the name of the crib, cross checking it with the word recall, to see if the crib has been recalled at any time in the past or may be recalled in the future.

Something else I also want to caution you on is drop side baby cribs. There were some safety concerns brought up about them in recent years which compelled the CPSC to do a study on drop side cribs. The findings of the study were not good; they found that since the year 2000 more than 32 infant deaths have been caused as a direct result of drop side cribs and that these cribs are unsafe nature. As a result of the study it is likely that drop side cribs will be banned sometime in the near future, so you may want to avoid them.

In summary: Try to avoid very cheap cribs as they can be unsafe. Do a search on the Internet on any baby cribs that you are considering, this will produce both reviews and any possible recall orders that have been issued on said crib. Drop side cribs have been found to be unsafe and should be avoided.