Angel Line Jenny Lind Crib

THIS IS AN UPDATED REVIEW. The Delta Jenny Lind Crib is a reasonably priced, extremely easy crib to put together. I purchased two of the white models for my 14 month old twin girls, based on numerous customer reviews from Target.com and babiesrus.com, the rating it received from Consumer Reports (it is listed as a best buy), and the reasonable price (I purchased mine from the local Babies R' Us for $109.99 a piece). When I opened the boxes the cribs were in, I was very surprised at the strong paint fumes that the crib was giving off. The mfg date was 8/19/2004, and the crib smelled as if it had just been painted hours before. The crib was beyond simple to put together, there are no screws to deal with. It all just snaps together. My husband and I were able to put two cribs together with our five year old son and 14 month old twin daughters "helping" in less than 40 minutes. HOWEVER, my youngest twin was not in the crib for twenty minutes before she managed to get her two bottom teeth wedged between the crib rail and the teething guard. She pulled her head back so violently that she pulled the teeth totally forward, requiring a visit to the Emergency Room, then to a Pediatric Dentist, and finally to an Oral Surgeon who had to remove the teeth. She will now have permanent damage into adulthood because of this crib. There is a decorative groove under the teething guard that is the exact width of a childs tooth (you can also get your fingernail in between the crib rail and the teething guard, not something I thought to check until after my daughter hurt herself). It is amazing to me that she managed to do this to herself, my daughter is NOT a biter, and we did not ever have a problem with her doing anything to the rails in her former crib that she shared with her twin. Upon contacting the manufactuer, I was told that the crib meets the MINIMUM safety standards, (the teething guard cannot be removed with a fifty pound weight) and that is good enough for them (!!!). There are three things that Delta could do to make this a truly fantastic crib: remove the teething guard entirely; not have the decorative groove on the crib rail; or have the type of teething guards that wrap around the crib rail. These cribs were not together any longer than four hours, so I do not know how long it would take for the paint smell to dissapate. My daughters' did not sleep in these cribs for longer than an hour, so I cannot comment on how well they hold up. I've since returned both cribs to the Babies R' Us that I purchased them at, and upon review all the cribs I could find at Babies R' Us, Baby Depot, Target, and Baby 2 Teen (these are the only stores in my area that sells baby furniture) Delta is the ONLY crib manufactuer that has any kind of groove under the teething rail. The higher end cribs do not have any teething rails at all, and cribs that are comparably priced either have the type of teething rails that wrap around, or screw into the crib rail. Due to the extensive injury that my daughter received, I do not recommend buying this crib. I found two cribs that were only $25.00 more, that had no teething rail, made of the same material, equally as easy to put together, and when contacting the maker of the new cribs, was told that they pass the safety standards that will be required by the year 2007. I feel confident that if my daughter can do this to herself in a Delta Jenny Lind crib, that another child can do the exact same thing, or worse.