Worried about the startling number of babies dying and sustaining injuries from poorly manufactured cribs, the first crib safety standards were released in 1973. That backfired fantastically, and parents fled back to wooden cages, in the spirit of whiskey barrels. Early crib designers spurned wood in favor of iron, Goodstein says, and painted the cribs with lead-based paint. ![]() Cribs made a come back once parents realized that babies could crawl out of bassinets fairly easily. ![]() ![]() Throughout the next century, babies moved from whiskey cages to bassinets, which were kept elevated to keep infants away from dangers on the ground.
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