Recalled crib, do you own one? What do you think?

[JSVDP]

I just saw this on the news, and read it online. I was curious how many of you own this crib and how you feel about it?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_crib_recall

WASHINGTON – More than 2.1 million drop-side cribs by Stork Craft Manufacturing are being recalled, the biggest crib recall in U.S history, following reports of four infant suffocations.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission said late Monday the recall involves 1.2 million cribs in the United States and almost 1 million in Canada, where Stork Craft is based. Sales of the cribs being recalled go back to 1993.

Nearly 150,000 of the cribs carry the Fisher-Price logo.

The CPSC said it is aware of four infants who suffocated in the drop-side cribs, which have a side that moves up and down to allow parents to lift children from the cribs more easily. The agency also said there have been 110 incidents of drop-sides detaching from the cribs.

The Stork Craft cribs have had problems with their hardware, which can break, deform or become missing after years. CPSC said there can also be problems with assembly mistakes by the crib owner. These problems can cause the drop-side to detach, creating a dangerous space between the drop-side and the crib mattress, where a child can become trapped.

The commission is urging parents to stop using the cribs until receiving a free repair kit from Stork Craft. The kit will convert the drop-side into a fixed side.

The cribs, which were manufactured and distributed between January 1993 and October 2009, were sold at major retailers including BJ's Wholesale Club, Sears and Wal-Mart stores and online through Target and Costco. They sold for between $100 and $400, and were made in Canada, China and Indonesia.

Calls to Stork Craft were not immediately returned.

This is the second big recall this year for the company. It recalled about 500,000 cribs in January because of problems with the metal brackets that support the mattress. Some of the same models in the earlier recall were also part of Monday's announcement, CPSC said.

Consumer advocates have complained for years about drop-side cribs. More than 5 million of them have been recalled over the past two years alone — recalls that were associated with the deaths of a dozen young children.

ASTM International, an organization that sets voluntary industry safety standards for everything from toys to the steel used in commercial buildings, approved a new standard last week that requires four immovable, or fixed, sides for full-size cribs — essentially eliminating the manufacture of drop-side cribs.

CPSC is also considering new rules for making cribs safer and could adopt the ASTM voluntary standard as a mandatory one, outright banning the cribs.

Nancy Cowles, executive director of Chicago-based Kids In Danger, said the agency must include more rigorous testing for crib durability. "Parents should be able to trust that their child is safe in their crib," said Cowles.

Toys"R"Us started phasing out drop-side cribs earlier this year and will no longer carry them next month.

In the Stork Craft recall, the manufacture date, model number, crib name, country of origin, and the firm's name, address and contact information are located on the assembly instruction sheet attached to the mattress support board. The firm's insignia "storkcraft baby" or "storkling" is inscribed on the drop-side teething rail of some cribs.

Consumers can contact the company, 877-274-0277, to order the free repair kit, or log on to http://www.storkcraft.com.

[anicole09]

Anyone else having a problem getting to the storkcraft website? I would really love to find out if my son's crib is one that has been recalled but neither the link on this post or typing it in is working!?

[CherBearCM]

No I don't own one but I'm a little freaked out now... we have a crib that my BIL made for his kids 12 years ago, he made it to safety standards but it does have the side that moves up and down... we haven't put it together yet so I don't know how big the space is there but I'm hoping that it won't pose a problem, we really can't afford a crib.

[shelbysunflower]

 damnit i have one....going to give them a call tomorrow. i knew something was wrong when i couldn't get the drawer to assemble properly...the measurements were way off and i couldn't get it on.

[Cara5]

My mother in law has one that im pretty sure is part of this recall.  Ill have to tell her about it. Jo has only spent a few hours in the crib, and its in her living room, so we would be able to see her, but still... needs to be fixed for sure! 

We have a Stokke Sleepi crib. As far as i know, no recalls from Stokee.  (we bought it used, i almost shit myself when i saw how much those things cost new!) 

[iwmoln2120]

i have two storkcraft cribs and have been trying to get the storkcraft website to come up and have not been able to get it up and have been calling the number listed in that story and have not got thru either. we got our adoption match to a mother of twin girls due for a c-section 12/25 and need to know what to do and it is so aggravating

[ColtonKeatonMom]

I HAD one.....I returned it to Wal-Mart last night after I saw the recall on the news for $150 store credit....