Watch out for that crib!

The Consumer Product Safety Commission recalled 2.1 million drop-side cribs made by Stork Craft Manufacturing last Tuesday after a slow reaction to four deaths because of the product. The reaction of the crib company was pushed along by the recall and now families are scrambling to keep their children safe.

At issue are Stork Craft drop side cribs where one side moves up and down for parents to pick up their children more easily. After 4 infants suffocated because of the drop feature and 110 incidents occurred of the drop side detaching completely, the CPSC made the decision to act by recalling all of the cribs.

Stork Craft offers a free kit to permanently attach the drop side and Stork Craft executives believe that the deaths would have been easily preventable if the parents had used the kits. The drop side feature is in review by the CPSC and may be banned altogether, eliminating the extra steps of installing the kits.

For more information on the product recall, check out the Dallas Morning news site.

I am very surprised by the slow action of the crib company after they knew about four infant deaths and many incidents where children could have been seriously hurt. It may seem like enough to offer the free installation kit for concerned parents, but I am waiting for Stork Craft's public apology to the parents of the dead infants. Until then, I can not give them any respect for their attempts to make things right.