BreathableBaby Breathable Mesh Crib Liner

When you go into your baby’s room and see this…

You end up spending all night researching and reading reviews on the best crib bumpers there are and run to the store the next day to prevent the same thing from happening the following night. The crib bumpers/liners with the best reviews that satisfied what I wanted was BreathableBaby Breathable Mesh Crib Liner. I was able to find them at Babies “R” Us for $30. Initially, I wanted the Grey Safari with cute animal prints on it, but unfortunately (or fortunately!), they didn’t have any at the store, so I settled for White. I was telling my friend Maisy about my White colour purchase instead of the Grey Safari and she made a great point— it’s good to get white because the prints will distract baby from sleeping. I’m really glad I bought these crib liners to keep Blake’s limbs from hanging out of the crib; however, it isn’t very compatible my IKEA SUNDVIK crib.

It appears BreathableBaby Breathable Mesh Crib Liners were designed to fit cribs without solid ends. If you want to see an installation video on the crib liners and what they are suppose to look like on a crib without solid ends, click here. There are three places on the liner where you tie a string around a crib rail so the liner doesn’t fall into the crib. We were only able to use one of three ties on each liner because the ties were behind the solid pieces (see photos). Okay! So I read reviews on Amazon and Babies “R” Us and thought… there must be a better way to wrap this liner around the crib (that other reviewers hadn’t tried) and I’m totally going to buy the liner and try it anyways (knowing the cribs with solid ends didn’t have very good reviews with this liner). Well, after I bought them myself and tried it, there is absolutely no way to hack this crib liner to make it work well! I tried so many different ways to make it work and you can’t win with this.

1. I tried to wrap the liner along the inside instead of the outside and it shortened the length of the crib way too much. Now when Blake squirms up to the end, her head bumps the solid ends.
2. It didn’t matter where I started the crib liner, two gaps were going to be there and no matter what, Blake ended up finding it. I chose to start it on the end she doesn’t sleep at often and went from there. If you have a crib without solid ends, you shouldn’t get the open gaps like the two I have.
3. Due to the lack of strings to tie down the liner, Blake has hacked it and can push the liner down with her hands and feet to see out.

In the end, it turns out it doesn’t matter what I do to help prevent her limbs from finding the gaps in the crib rails. It appears she’ll always find a way. Even if she’s asleep.