Baby Safety Zone - Baby Crib

A Baby Crib Protects Your Loved One

Hi folks! Baby Carter here, and I'd like to tell you about my crib. My baby crib, that is. (Course, mom and dad have a pretty nice crib too, but that's not what we're here to discuss.)

Baby Crib Talk

Funny that this page is about baby cribs, because the title of my baby safety show is Crib Talk. (It's ironic that I have a talk show since I'm supposed to be too young to talk, but mom says I'm advanced for my age.) On Crib Talk, we discuss issues about baby and child safety. Admittedly, there are things our parents do in the name of our safety that we don't understand. For those things, our show serves and a sounding board for baby frustration. (The biggest complaint is when a parent, grandparent or other adult says, "NO!") That's a topic for another day though. Today, we'll talk about baby cribsafety, for example.

Now, on to today's topic, baby crib safety. Hopefully by now, manufacturers have wised up and put the rails on their cribs closer together. Some of you babies out there aren't yet smart enough to understand that if there's too much space, we can get our heads stuck. You don't think about that before you stick your neck out there. I know, you're just trying to escape from that wretched nap they always want you to take, but don't be stupid! If your parents bought you a new crib, you're good to go. But if you got stuck with a hand-me-down (sometimes cleverly disguised as a "family heirloom") you might be in for more trouble than rails that are spaced too far apart.

Baby cribs built before 1973 have a multitude of problems. First of all, they could be splintering. Hopefully, if your parents saw that they would have sanded it down. But some of them may have been painted, and paint back then contained lead, which I hear is harmful if eaten. It sounds nuts to eat paint, but admit it, we've all tried it.

This is one of the most important baby safety products you can ever look into.

Other things to watch out for are these so called "decorative touches" that can break off or cribs with sharp edges. Us babies are curious creatures, so if we're crawling around in our rooms and hit our heads on a sharp edges. I don't even want to think about that kind of pain.

Now lets talk about those freakin' portable cribs. Get your parents to get a cheap little mattress or something to make those things more comfortable when you go to grandma's or the sitter's. My grandma even folds a quilt over several time for a mattress, which seems to work well for me. I can sleep for hours in that thing. So even getting them to do that is progress.

I'm Baby Carter, and it's time for me to sign off. Tune in next week for the topic of high chairs.

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