Drop Side Crib: Sleeping Safe with Metal Hardware

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Parental responsibility and common sense is the best advice when using any baby crib. Be sure to check all hardware (including screws bolting a non-moving side crib together) periodically, and tighten as necessary.

Also when a child reaches 35" tall, or is actively climbing it is time to move to a toddler bed and out of the crib.

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We recommend checking your crib, whether it is a drop side or non-drop side static side, for missing or broken hardware. Replace missing or broken hardware with the correct required parts, either through the original manufacturer, or through Products America. Once again, be sure to to verify that your crib is not under recall. If your crib is under recall, contact the original manufacturer for repair/recall solution or remedy.

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So it it safe to use a drop side crib? As stated in the CPSC Question and Answer Section of the Federal Register 16CFR PArts 1219, 1220, 1500 et al.: "Nothing in the CPSIA, or in the crib standards, requires consumers to replace their cribs with cribs that comply with the new crib standards." Those standards (current) refer to the non-moving side cribs being manufactured today. A drop side crib can still be used by an individual in his/her own home.

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In contrast, metal moving side hardware manufactured in the USA (steel rods, etc.) has been used on cribs for over 60 years without incident or recall associated with the drop side hardware according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission Recall List for cribs. Many of us, myself included, spent our infancy in drop side cribs - safely.

Check your crib to see if their is a recall on it at the Consumer Product Safety Commission website.

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Around the year 2000 US crib manufacturers ceased manufacturing in the United States and began importing their cribs to sell to the American public. The motivation: reduced production costs. The cost cutting measures led to the shift from using metal hardware for the moving side parts (the drop side) to plastic hardware. The result of these decisions has materialized as not only poor quality products, but as safety hazards as seen by the current recall/failure rate of imported cribs.

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Dropside cribs regardless of what they're made with are all dangeroud.