IIRC, someone in the Garden Junk forum used the spindles as decorations (maybe it was a way to put a pseudo barrier? I can't remember exactly) in her garden, and I was impressed by how pretty it was. Might ask this question over there, too.

Hi, bookjunky4life. Just ran across a crib thread the other day & saved it. Not exactly garden junk buttttt...I'm thinkin if you replace the glass with wood, it would make a cute potting bench. The bench using pallets & an old crib mattress is cute too. Have fun, ~digger Here is a link that might be useful: Crib ideas

Very nice! One of these days I'd like to do a crazy style quilt. Love the old crib. It's amazing how ANY of our mother's & grandmother's ever survived childhood. It might even be coated with lead paint...

All of us alive now lived through unsafe practices, but that doesn't mean they are safe. Car seats, in particular, reduce the risk of death by 71% in infants under a year old. You can be the safest driver in the world and it won't matter if somebody else slams into your car and the force of physics throws your child out of your arms and into the windshield. Since the recommendation, based on studies has suggested putting babies to sleep on their back without blankets and bumpers, SIDS rates have dropped dramatically. I'm sure some of those moms in the 50s- 80s whose babies died from SIDS wish they could go back and do it the "modern" way, even if others around them laughed. Drop side cribs were outlawed after years of recalls and over 30 children dying because the side came detached at the base and suffocated or strangled infants. My oldest 2 daughters were in drop side cribs, when the recall and ban happened and the company sent me repair kits to switch the beds to fixed side. With my next two, yes, it was slightly more of a pain but I wouldn't go back to drop side. Even my mom realized the issue and she and I took a saw to her old drop side from the 90s that she had kept for keeping grandbabies and threw it in the trash so no one else would try to use it. She has given me a hard time about modern parenting safety until I reminded her that she was an early adopter of car seats, before they were required and I'm sure she got chastized by her family for it. I sure do wish they still had merry-go-rounds on the playground though!