A note on convertibility: Many of the cribs we tested are convertible, which means you can modify them ... fingers between the crib frame and the mattress, the mattress is too small,” says Muratore.

Ease of assembly is based primarily on the amount of time required to assemble the crib, clarity, accuracy and explicitness of the instructions, whether or not the correct hardware was included ...

Consumer Reports tested 22 cribs, including convertible cribs and popular models ... so this made up a small fraction of the total score of each crib. However, the ease of this essential task ...