Monthly Archives: December 2011

Sitting in the corner of the nursery my mother created for grandkids was the old brass cot that my grandma and my father slept in. She had it restored to ensure the paint was baby chew-safe and had a mattress custom-made to properly fit the cot and to safety standards. Even then, it was more a decoration filled with stuffed toys, as she preferred the safety of brand new cot. I wonder if my great grandmother knew that when she went out to get a cot for her first child about 100 years ago that that baby bed would have …

Sitting in the corner of the nursery my mother created for grandkids was the old brass cot that my grandma and my father slept in. She had it restored to ensure the paint was baby chew-safe and had a mattress custom-made to properly fit the cot and to safety standards. Even then, it was more a decoration filled with stuffed toys, as she preferred the safety of brand new cot. I wonder if my great grandmother knew that when she went out to get a cot for her first child about 100 years ago that that baby bed would have …