Simplicity for Children Milan Crib Changer Combo Review

The Simplicity Milan combo crib was fine for a while, and I think it would be OK--even good--for your first child, as long as you don't mind having to use two hands to put the side down.  It moves around easily but stays put when you need it to (if no one--like your kids/their friends--"unbrakes" off for you), has everything together (as pictured), etc.  The changing table portion (my favorite part of this item), while taller than many, is pretty sturdy and has rails on all four sides.  Its smooth flat slats are much easier to clean than round or beveled ones.  The pad is nice and smooth, easier to clean than others I've used.  I'll probably keep it even if I don't keep the whole furniture unit, in the end. 

I think it's pretty cheaply made--thus the price, and the recommendation as good only if you don't have any rough users in the house.  There's more than one place on the slats where splinters have been peeled/ripped off and the bottom of the under-crib drawer busted through on one side after one too many times of a small toddler getting in it.  I haven't figured out a way to fix that, though I've not tried taking it all the way apart just yet. With two- and four-year-old boys and myself using them, one drawer has a busted handle, two don't slide well, and a screw is loose, I think, on the third.  Another screw connecting the crib to the changing table has been loose for some time. (Granted, the son that was in the crib is the master unscrewer, but still...)  Make sure you keep the special screwdriver handy for any needed tightening--and for disassembly/different configuring (eg, to toddler bed, etc.) if you buy this.  And the instruction manual. (My husband and father-in-law assembled this shortly after a to-different-state move and I don't know where the manual ended up.) I never even took the side down until about a week ago, and then only b/c I'm pregnant and was tired of leaning over it when I needed to get things in and out of it.)