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[sal_amanda]

Well, Nora's crib got recalled.  Apparently the drop gate in a reported 9 out of 600,000 cribs sold has come loose, posing a potential entrapment hazard, although no injuries have actually occured.  I'm not trying to belittle the seriousness of a crib recall, but as my dad said when I told him, "Oh no!  And it was safe just yesterday!"  So we're not immediately taking it down before we even have a chance to figure out what we're doing first.  Since day one I've always tested out the drop gate daily by pushing my weight down on it just to make sure it's holding up and I see no problems.  Plus it comes with the attached changing table/bedside stand that I really use a lot for storage.  I was wondering if I could return the crib portion minus the table portion without them realizing.

Oh, and of course my mom bought the crib and doesn't have the receipt still because she doesn't even have receipts from last week, let alone two years ago.  So if Burlington will take it back, we'd probably get stuck with $300 store credit at a store I don't want even $20 worth of stuff.  The brands of cribs they carry now are not ones I want to by so getting a replacement there would be out of the question.

So what we're thinking is that since the drop gate is the issue with the recall, we may just go ahead and convert it into toddler bed mode and try that out with her.  I inquired of the Geekparents community and many there said they did toddler beds around this age.  I inquired at daycare and they said Nora stays on her mat after she wakes up from her nap until they get her up.  Thus, we are going to try Nora out with the toddler bed and hope she stays there instead of getting out and getting into all sorts of trouble in her room...

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[soltantosogni.livejournal.com]

I'm just going to throw this out there, because well I don't know. If you guys don't already have a gate in the doorway to her room you might want to think about getting one. The trouble she could get into in her room is by far better than the trouble she could get into say, falling down the stairs.

[this would be my paranoia talking]

My oldest nephew locked himself in the basement shorlty after they put him in a toddler bed. The door to the basement wasn't quite latched, a little push and BAMO! I wonder what's down heeeeeeeeeere.

[garnetridgelj.livejournal.com]

We put one of those doorknob covers on the door and she doesn't seem to be able to have the strength to figure it out yet. We could leave up the gate at the top of the stairs, but she is tall enough to be able to crawl over it if she really wanted too.

I converted the bed before I left for work so hopefully all will go well with napping today.

[sal_amanda]

What he said. I've always kept her door shut when she's sleeping so as long as we keep her from opening it, it should be all good on that end.