'Midenic Reasoning'.

I held up the head board so that my husband could screw in the side rail, which seemed pretty easy. We knew to use the smaller screws because it was a small hole that they needed to go into. We attached the side board onto the foot board.  Just as my husband was putting the second screw in I realized that the plastic rolling pins were on the rail that we were attaching and they would have to be at the front of the crib for the rail to slide up and down.  I tried to explain this to my husband, at first he didn’t know what I was talking about and then he realised that I was right. So we had to unscrew the rail, as my husband was unscrewing the screw he wasn’t quick enough to catch it and it rolled under the bed so I had to crawl underneath the bed to find it.  This was beginning to be more of an ordeal than originally anticipated. My husband was starting to get frustrated, I could tell because he was constantly sighing.  Once we screwed the correct rail to the foot board to the headboard, according to the instructions the mattress board was next. I had to move around depending on what part of the crib my husband was working on and hold up the pieces that he was screwing together so that the crib wouldn’t fall apart whilst we were working on it.  

The mattress board was the heaviest of any of the pieces. It was even too heavy to hold up with both my hands underneath it so I ended up holding it with both my knees so that it was level. There seemed to be a gap in the instructions, it said to put all the four screws in at the same time which we did and it was difficult to put the last screw in, so we put in all four screws in but did not tighten them until they were all in, the instructions did not tell us to do that but we figured it out during the experience.

Once we had screwed the mattress board to the back rail we realized that the instructions which were on the bottom of the mattress board were impossible to read.  At first I got down on my hand and knees and rolled under the crib to look at the instructions but that was getting really uncomfortable. My husband suggested we put the crib on the side so we can continue to put the other side rail up and put the wheels on.

The wheels simply clicked and locked into place, I realized that adding the wheels on before the whole crib was assembled would have been easier even though it was not written in the instructions.

Once it was completed we had both worked up a sweat but I felt a sense of accomplishment for finally putting the crib together.