Before Hailey was born, I did my homework. I researched all of the things about pregnancy and motherhood that I had no experience with - which was pretty much everything...car seats, strollers, mobiles...you name it.
One of the things that I looked at closely was her crib. It obviously needed to be safe, but we didn't want to have to get a second mortgage to afford it. We decided on a nice, middle-of-the-road convertible crib (for you non-parents, that is a crib that changes from a crib to a toddler bed and then to a regular size bed). Awesome, we loved our crib and it worked great! I even bought the matching dresser/ changing table to go with it - in the ultra cool shade of dark pine.
Fast forward to today...Hailey is a toddler. She is, how would I put it...
ROUGH on that crib! She jumps in it, kicks it, throws things at it, pushes toys through the slats. The crib has held up remarkably well, a good purchase on our part.
However...a couple of weeks ago, I went online looking to buy the conversion kit to make it into a regular bed (before they stopped selling that model of crib) and I learned that our crib has been
RECALLED!
Huh? Really? No one told me. What a
surprise.
It seems the slats of the crib tend to break and this can lead to children getting trapped. To be fair, no child has been hurt by this model of crib (thank God), but if anyone can break a slat, it's Hailey. If we want to have this bed long enough to convert it to a regular bed, it better get replaced - which we can apparently do or free. According to this website, we need to supply them with our mailing address so they can send us a kit to pull the bed apart. Then we are to mail them back parts of the crib - presumably to prove that we did, in fact, purchase this crib. In the meantime we are to 'Stop use of the crib Immediately'.
Um...ok...I guess it seems simple enough. So lets look at the timeline of how this whole transaction is going to go down...
* Immediately stop use of crib
* Send away for kit
* 3 days later kit arrives
* Dismantle crib and send company the parts which hold mattress to crib
* await delivery of kit
* company verifies that we purchased offending crib and send a voucher for a new crib.
* await arrival of voucher
* go to store purchase new crib
Does anyone see a problem with this? Here is a hint...
Does this company not get it? What are parents supposed to do in the meantime? They are sending us a voucher for a new crib...so there is no point in buying a new crib until we get that voucher. Bedtime for us is already stressfull enough, we really don't need to play 'Guess where Hailey is sleeping tonight!'.
I guess she'll just sleep in a box until we can get this finished...because a cardboard box will be studier and safer...
at least until they recall the box because the packing tape is a choking hazard. Then I'll have to send away for a kit to get a voucher for a new box...
I made a wonderful realization this week...it's March and that means my blog turns three years old this month! 
