Sorelle Dondola Cradle - White Products and Promotions

4 stars

Reviewer:  Pregnant Lady "Amy"  (TX)  See all my reviews

We just bought this piece and put it together. It was pretty easy to put together and it looks really nice. It's very sturdy and appears to be solid wood. We got the cherry color. It's a very nice looking piece and the gliding motion is nice, without being scary (like some of the rocking ones we looked at). We don't have a baby to put in it yet, but it's plenty big for any size baby. They say once the child can sit up on his own, move him out of the cradle, but this cradle is certainly big enough to hold any baby until that time. Only drawback was that the cradle set we bought, the sheet was a bit small on the matress that came with the cradle. It ended up smushing the mattress a bit on the corners to fit. (The matress that comes is about 1/2 inch thick, very thin). We found a thicker mattress at the baby chain store for less than $20 and use that instead and it's great.
Additional: Now that the baby has been here, we still love this cradle. Our baby is a big 5 month old and he still sleeps in it. He's 28 inches and 17 lbs at 5 months. At about 3 mths, he figured out how to spin around in it (we couldn't figure out how at first as the cradle isn't that big). He can also still roll over in it, just to give you an idea of the size. We'll have to move him to a regular crib soon, but we've used this for 6 and a half months and that's longer than we thought we'd be able to. It still looks brand new! Will last through many more babies!