![]() Finnbin’s program is “one box one tree”īaby boxes were on the fringe even a few years ago, but we’re glad to report that they’re making the jump into mainstream baby gear. ![]() And they’re advocating for safe sleep education - providing safe sleep tutorials and information for parents online. In others, they’ve teamed with local non-profits to offer boxes at a discounted rate. ![]() In some areas, they’ve partnered with hospitals to provide baby boxes free of charge to families in need. ![]() Pip & Grow and Finnbin each have their own recipe for community health. Thus, you can expect your experience using a baby box as a bassinet to look and feel pretty similar, regardless of which brand you end up going with. We’ll tell you more about the organizations shortly - and they do have notable differences in their operations as well as their priorities - but for the most part, the products are functionally the same. Big PictureĪs of 2021, the two leading baby box companies are Pip & Grow (~$59) and Finnbin (~$100). Jennifer Clary, Co-founder of The Baby Box Co. “The baby box program is a beautiful tradition.” The mission is to use baby boxes as a mechanism to extend information and education about safe sleep. The most important component of the baby box tradition is not the baby box itself, but the health care, information, and education that goes along with each one. Like, can’t-look-away, irresistible adorable. Plus – I don’t know exactly what it is about these boxes, but babies just look adorable in them. Compared to many other baby products that tend to be big, loud, and flashy, baby boxes are understated, mature, and cosmopolitan… they don’t necessarily scream “baby” when you see them. The “designs,” if you can call them that - I mean, they’re boxes - are basic and clean. Perhaps this is just my personal taste, but I think a baby box is quite visually appealing. In fact, it’s possible that baby boxes could be back on the market if the CPSC continues the work it already started on developing testing standards for a separate bassinet category (compact bassinets) - we’ll have to wait and see.Ī baby box is a simple, solid, green solution for a newborn bassinet, with a neat historical component. There has been a lot of criticism and controversy surrounding the decision, because there’s no data suggesting that flat sleepers like baby boxes pose any safety risk. FinnBinn closed its doors last year, and other manufacturers are caught between a rock and a hard place.īy the way, the reason, as it were, that baby boxes won’t meet the future bassinet guidelines is because they don’t have feet to keep them off the ground. We’re leaving this review up for now, in case you have or happen to obtain a baby box before then, but know that as a group this category of sleep spaces won’t be available much longer, if at all. *Please note: As of this spring (2022), baby boxes - and all other flat infant sleepers - will no longer meet the new CPSC standards for the bassinet category (and thus will no longer be available).
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