CA, East Palo Alto Go to VYSSA seriesAfter reports of two infants becoming trapped between the mattress and the crib, five styles of the VYSSA crib mattress from IKEA are being recalled. Though no injuries have been reported in these instances, any space between a crib and its mattress poses a serious safety risk. There should never be more than two finger-width gap between the bare crib mattress and the crib end.Crib sizing is strictly regulated by federal law; the Consumer Product Safety Committee (CPSC) states a crib mattress should be at least 27 1/4 inches by 51 1/4 inches to ensure a proper fit. According to IKEA's recall announcement, "IKEA VYSSA crib mattresses are designed to be used with IKEA cribs." Standard sizing for cribs and crib mattresses allows consumers to purchase separate brands without having to worry about a gap.The affected VYSSA crib mattresses were manufactured on or before May 4, 2014. The manufacturing date can be found on the permanent label attached to the mattress cover.
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I guess we were luckyColor: White|Disappointed after long term useColor: White|Deteriorated after 8 monthsColor: White| Fits perfectly in Delta Emery 4 in 1 cribColor: White| despite some negative reviews (even though the majority of the reviews for this mattress are positive) and I'm glad I didColor: Light Blue|Too small, leaves dangerous gaps and corners will crush with sheetColor: White|←Previous...Get fast answers from reviewers See all 360 answered questions What do customers buy after viewing this item?Best SellingSafety 1st Heavenly Dreams White Crib Mattress2,811Top RatedSerta Tranquility Eco Firm Crib and Toddler Mattress12Lowest PriceDream On Me 4" Full Size Foam Crib and Toddler Bed Mattress262Need customer service? Abe’s crib is the Sundvik crib from Ikea. As I’ve mentioned before, this selection was motivated primarily by price. The crib is $119, and I like the way it looks just fine. It has clean simple lines that fit in well with the nursery.
It’s not flashy or exciting, but it does its job without drawing attention to itself. I wasn’t interested in spending more on a crib for a few reasons: 1. Cribs rarely excite me, no matter how much they cost. I just….don’t care that much about cribs. They aren’t like chairs. 2. I had no idea whether Abe would actually USE his crib much at all. Ari loved the crib. Milo hated sleeping, but didn’t much care where he was doing it. Gus HATED the crib with a fiery passion and slept in bed with us until he was three. So, you know, I’m pretty open minded about baby sleeping arrangements. I just want everyone to sleep; I don’t care where it happens. 3. Even if babies sleep in cribs, they don’t do it for very long, relatively speaking. Abe’s my last baby; he and some kid from Craigslist are the only ones who are going to use this thing. I’d rather save my money for something that will stick around longer. So those are all my reasons for buying the crib to start with.
When we put the crib together, my only concern, looking forward, was that the directions made it look like we’d pretty much need to take the whole damn thing apart again to lower the mattress down once Abe started pulling up on things. But, of course, at the time, that seemed too impossibly far off to even worry about. But then, somehow, he got bigger. Big enough to start trying to pull up on things. So, a few weeks ago, we had to undertake the daunting task of lowering the mattress. I thought I would report back on this process to make my Ikea crib analysis complete. Turns out it was pretty easy. We didn’t have to take the whole crib apart; we just had to take one end off and then slide the bottom that the mattress rests on out and put it back in the lower position. When we went to this, we learned that we had brilliantly thought to store the instruction manual AND the allen wrench under the mattress so that we’d be able to find them when the time came to lower the mattress:
Our minds were so sharp back before we had a fourth kid! We opted not to put them back under there once we lowered the mattress, by the way, lest Abe somehow figure out a way to pry up the mattress while sitting on it and pull the choking hazard tools out from under there. Better safe than sorry. (note to future self: they’re in the top drawer of Abe’s changing table/dresser) We turned it on its side like so. Unscrewed all these little things. And put the bottom back in at the lower position (there are only two positions). This part–fitting the little things into the little thing places–was the hardest part. I would say the whole process took the two of us 20 minutes? With a baby crawling around distracting us. The sad part is that we had to retire the crib skirt I made to match the curtains. I was going to just use heavy duty double sided tape and tape it farther back on the mattress board…but once the board was lowered the gap between it and the side of the crib was too tight to wiggle the fabric through.