Crib mattress elevation system and control unit

A method for facilitating placing an infant into or taking an infant out of a baby crib comprising;

• providing a frame movably supported by posts, a mattress supported on the frame, the frame being adjustably movable to intermediate positions between a raised position and a lowered position;
• providing a protective enclosure surrounding the frame and mattress, having at least one portion being adjustably movable to intermediate positions between a raised position and a lowered position;
• providing a first elevation mechanism for moving the frame between the lowered position and the raised position, and a second elevation mechanism for moving the enclosure portion between the raised position and the lowered position;
• and,
• providing a controller for responding to a user's inputs for selectively activating the first elevation mechanism and the second elevation mechanism simultaneously for moving the frame with the mattress upwardly or downwardly and the movable enclosure portion in a direction opposite thereto to positions selected by the user between their respective raised and lowered positions thereby to ease placement into or removal of a baby from the crib when the mattress is in a raised position with the enclosure portion in a lowered position, and then to return the mattress to the lowered position and the enclosure portion to the raised position after the baby is placed in the crib,
• programming the controller for providing user selected height settings of the frame, the movable enclosure portion or both, in response to user commands;
• and,
• providing a switch connected to the controller for a user to activate the controller without use of the hands.