Crib Safety: What Every Parent Should Know
Experts provide the top tips for keeping your baby's crib safe
Aug. 18, 2011 -- intro:
It's one of the biggest purchases soon-to-be parents make, buying a crib for baby.
"A crib is the one product where you're going to put your child to sleep and leave the room," Joe Shamie, the president of Delta Children's Products, one of the nation's largest crib manufacturers, told "Good Morning America."
That's why Shamie's company, Delta Enterprises, puts cribs through a series of punishing tests, as "GMA's" Elisabeth Leamy learned in a walk-through of the company's safety labs.
Web Extra: Take a behind-the-scenes look inside Delta's crib safety lab.
It's also why the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the federal agency overseeing crib safety, issued sweeping new rules in June requiring crib manufacturers to follow more stringent safety procedures.
Read on for the top tips every parent should know when it comes to keeping their babies safe in cribs, as provided to "GMA" by Delta and outlined by the CPSC.
