sidecarring and drop side crib?

[Mariposa40]

Hi all, my DS will be 5 months tomorrow (hard to believe), and he has been cosleeping with me -- but since DH is an insomniac/light sleeper, that often means that DS and I sleep in the bed and DH sleeps on the futon, or the other way around. While on vacation and sleeping in a smaller bed we tried having DS sleep in a play pen -- the result was that nobody really slept. I kept having to wake up for nursing. DS kept waking up to find that he was alone and unhappy. DH woke up when we woke up -- so, now I'm really a co-sleeping convert. In an attempt to get DH and I back to sleeping in the same bed, though,I'm thinking of getting a crib and side carring it. I found a nice crib for sale locally, at a decent price, but it is a drop side crib. If I'm side carring it, does that matter? Would it be safe, or should I look for something else?

[Mom2M]

If you are removing the side, it's fine. The issues with the dropside cribs are people putting them together wrong, the hardware failing and baby getting trapped.
I'm using a side carred drop side crib with the drop side removed