Safety first on baby furniture cribs

SIDS and / or suffocation of baby's are often the result of parents' good-minded idea to add pillows, quilts, or stuffed toys to their baby's or toddler's crib.
In order to avoid suffocation and/or SIDS, do not add any of these items to your baby's / toddler's crib. The crib itself should be of stable construction; if you purchase the crib unassembled, make sure you carefully and completely tighten all screws. Also, make sure that, over time, you check on all of the connections of the crib as the baby's movements or moving the crib itself can lead to unsecure connections / screws.
When buying a new crib, make sure the design of it does not provide for more than 2 3/8 inches of space between the slats so that no baby-parts are allowed to slip through any of the cracks.

After getting a new crib or toddler bed, make sure you do not forget to throw away any packaging materials or protectors for mattress; these materials are often the reason for suffocation. Also, when getting a new crib, you ideally get a mattress that comes from the same manufacturer or retailer as the crib itself - that way, you can make sure that the mattress is not too unfastened and allows for any baby parts to get stuck between mattress and crib sides, causing pain for your baby/toddler.

Also, the layout of the crib and/or toddler bed has to be such that head- and footboard do not have any major gaps between their slats. In particular older - design cribs may allow an infant's head to become caught in any gaps in the headboard and footboard which may lead to strangulation.

Make sure you only use lead-free paint, when re-painting any used baby cribs or toddler beds. At the same time, be aware that outgassing of existing paint - also on new cribs - can take for years to be finalized. Some therefore recommend to never get a wooden new crib that has a paint finish - even if the paint is lead-free. If out-gassing is still going on, the left-over fumes can be extremely damaging for the newborn's and baby's brain development.

Many parents are overwhelmed by the variety of different safety concerns that can potentially come along with the buy of a new crib or child bed. One way to make a buy decision easier is to look for products that are JPMA certified. The Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association (JPMA) certifies baby cribs and toddler beds that exceed the safety standards set forth by the Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) and the voluntary standards set by the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM).

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Stefan Moeller is helping moms and dads with selecting the right baby furniture cribs.

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