Baby Safety - Baby Proof Your Home!
The best time to begin considering baby safety and baby proofing you home is before you bring you new baby home from the hospital, Conceive.com wants to help parents to be prepare for the baby and enduring home safety, because as new parents you only learn that your child is now capable of rolling over and off of the changing table when they try to do it for the first time. For that reason, we feel it is better to help you make you home baby safe as early as possible, before the child is mobile.
Basic baby safety equipment includes electrical outlet plugs, cabinet locks, and baby gates. The plugs are cheap and easy to remove. However, once your baby is about nine months old, you will need to watch them more carefully, because starting at this age, some young children are able to get the plugs out of the sockets themselves. Cabinet locks are easy to install and remove, but they do not work on all types of cabinets. If they do not work on your cabinets, it often works to put a rubber band around the door knobs of the cabinets, or tie the door handles together with string in order to keep your baby out of them.
It is a good idea to put a baby gate at the bottom of your stairs as well as at the top of the stairs when practicing baby safety. But when you have the time to watch them closely, take the gate down so that your little one can practice going up and down. When you install the gates, also make sure that they are mounted securely. For instance, molding around the doorway to the stairs can often lead to improper mounting creating a condition in which the gate becomes wobbly and unsafe.
Finally, put breakables and small objects way high up where there is no way that they can be reached. Do a final check of your house by getting on the floor. From this angle, you can more clearly see from a baby’s point of view the dangers that are in your home. But always remember, the best thing that you can do to ensure your baby’s safety, is to always keep an ever viligent eye on them. No amount of childproofing can ever replace careful supervision.
