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Home > Nursery and Apparel > Furniture > Crib Mattresses   OVERVIEW Crib mattresses are sold by many stores as a no-brainer accessory, and purchased by many parents as an afterthought. Since standard full-size cribs are all the same size, crib mattresses claim to be as well, so you just grab a medium-priced one and call it a day. But no-one ever tells you differently. The government, the juvenile products industry, the American Academy of Pediatrics and every baby book we ever read all either tiptoe around mattress recommendations saying to just "buy the best you can find," or come out and recommend the cheapest as a perfectly acceptable choice. Now that we're recall junkies though, and know how many crib mattresses being too soft caused babies to slip under their crib or how mattresses that are too firm, too tall and too slippery can cause a crib sheet corner catapult, we realize how profoundly lucky we are that our first poor mattress choices never came back to haunt us. Crib mattresses come in two flavors: foam and innerspring. We prefer foam mattresses, but only the top-of-the-line ones. If we didn't have the budget to go all out though, and had to settle for a mattress of average quality, we would choose innerspring. Cheap innerspring mattresses aren't going to be that comfortable and might eventually tear, but we think that's a safer alternative to cheap foam mattresses. The cheapest innerspring will still offer some support because it is steel. The cheapest foam mattresses offer the barely-solid equivalent of toxic goo that can compromise your baby's breathing safety, collapse on the edges when your toddler stands up, invite mold and bacteria to take up permanent residence, and over time, break into dangerous chunks. Good quality foam mattresses though are modern marvels of comfort, safety and convenience. They're light, hypoallergenic and many quite chemical free. Look for fit (a tight fit in your crib with no more than 1 finger width of space), firmness (the harder the better) and the quality of the mattress covering. We look for non-PVC-vinyl covering with good seams. The very best crib mattresses have rigid internal side rails, quality covering and ultrasonic seams. How to Spot a Quality Mattress: It's heavy It's firm It's resilient It's around $100 Premium Quality Features: Multi-layered Cover Cloth Binding or No Binding Squared Edges PVC & Vinyl Free Not Useful for Judging Quality of Mattress: Number of coils Brand Name Warranty Promises FEATURES TO CONSIDER Foam or Innerspring Mattress Weight Firmness Resiliency Fit Side Rails Binding Multi-Layered Covers Convertibility Price Moonlight Slumber Starlight Support Mattress - Supreme Crib Foam with Visco Emily 2-Sided 252 Coil Crib Mattress Naturepedic No-Compromise Organic Crib Mattress - Classic 150 Natural Mat Coco Mat Baby Beautyrest BackCare VII Mattress RSS

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