Pack And Play Or Port-O-Crib Advice...Please

[Francine]

I am under the impression that you can buy a different mattress for a wooden port-a-crib because it is meant to have a mattress. So I can buy a different port-a-crib mattress because it is intended to be used with a port-a-crib and fits snuggly.

However I don't think we can use one in a P&P because they are not original to the equipment and have not been safety tested for them.

I see you are in MI, I am too, so I will try to find where I might have read this later and get back to you.

Thank you SunnyDay!

[DCBlessings27]

I was told the same thing back when I was considering becoming licensed (note, the crib is for my dd, not daycare children). Then I was given a guilt trip as to why I would even want my child to sleep in that crib.

Yes, I got really upset at one meeting. The lady in charge of surveyors here told me that I should put it in a room somewhere in the back. Then, pack it away and not pass it on to anyone else. This is a hand-built crib.
It's currently my daughter's toddler bed, and it works just fine for that purpose. I WILL use it as a crib for the child I'm currently carrying. I'll just use a pack n play during the daycare time. I also won't hide it away somewhere as it's a beautiful crib/toddler bed.

[SunnyDay]

Thank you SunnyDay!

No problem.

I have looked through the information I have and I can't find anything in writing. I can't remember where I heard that you couldn't use portable crib mattresses in P&P's You might want to contact your licensing consultant to see what they say about it.

[Vesta]

I was told during my March inspection that we would no longer be allowed to use pack-n-plays that had the collapsable sides when you pushed down on the buttons. The ones that can make you crazy until you finally get them figured out. Middle has to be unlocked in order to collapse all sides.
My inspector told me the story of a child who was standing up in the playpen, coasting, and managed to collapse the side down onto his neck and he was strangled by it.
I've yet to look up if this is a rampant problem, first I had heard of it, but okay.
She told me my own infant could sleep in one until he was of age to start pulling up.
This is in Illinois and I guess it will be a new rule here as of October (I'm guessing, I have a 5 month old and I'm addle brained)
I also had to ditch our newborns crib, even though we had the adaptor kit and no other child was ever going to sleep in it.
When I purchase a new crib I also have to write to the manufacturer and get a certificate of safety to present at inspections.
Some of these rules are really putting a hurt on the ladies who have to buy a whole bunch of new cribs and playpens.

[Heidi]

What's going to happen, probably, is that even less people will take infants! If they made a standard wooden crib a requirement here, I would not take babies. I simply do not have space, nor am I willing to put 2 or 3 cribs in my master bedroom. The pnp's are bad enough, but at least in theory I can fold them up and but them away on weekends.