crib mattress?

b2bapril07

What mattress did/are you getting? I am having such a hard time with this one. All the reviews are so all over the place. TIA

Galena99

Ours was from BRU and it was organic.  I think Serta made it.  It cost more than other mattresses, but all of the research I read said not to buy one with flame resistant material/lots of chemicals. 

Roxyroodle

we all so have an organic Serta it is a really firm I like it a lot.

MrsGo4Hockeychick

we have one from ikea. I remember reading somewhere (I can't remember where) that they're the next best to organic (and we couldn't afford the true organic ones). 

I did notice that there weren't a lot of fumes from it, unlike when we got a new mattress in May...our room stunk for a week!  

mommy411

We have the 99 dollar one from Serta...its fine I got same one for DD2

olivia_eve

We got a Moonlight Slumber all foam mattress for DD, it's awesome.  Ours is not organic, but it's PVC/vinyl free, no offgassing, non-toxic, stuff like that.  I think we got it for around $170.  I helped a friend register a few weeks ago, and was completely shocked by organic mattress prices.  One was $499! 

I love having an all foam one too, it's really light and easy to change.  I can't imagine hauling one of the heavy mattresses out of the crib to change a sheet in the middle of the night.

kathymarie

My MIL is buying us some ridiculous $800 organic mattress because she is convinced that any other kind will kill our baby and/or give it asthma. She can go right ahead.

kndeckar

Humm...I didn't know there was so much that went into picking a mattress!! I have never heard anything about fumes or picking organic over non-organic...

A co-worker who has 3 year old and isn't having anymore children offered hers up to us....and FREE was a price we just weren't willing to pass up. Seems to work just fine.....

 

Galena99

I would think a used one would have off-gassed enough not to be harmful anyway.  The serta one was less than $200 from what I remember.