How to make the house safe for baby
Tips / / December 19, 2019
Usually, buying a crib parents, potty, high chair and toys and to this calm. Sometimes the list of acquisitions added to baby monitors or bucket for diapers. But there are things that are more important than the carriage, because the safety of the child depends on them.
About 2 000 children in the world die every dayWorld report on child injury prevention. due to accidental injury. Most of these injuries happening at home, next to the parents. Children dropping the weight, shoved needles into the socket, the batteries are swallowed, and falling out of windows. As a rule, most of these injuries could have been prevented, almost without straining.
How to prepare the floor
Self introduction of the child with the world begins, as a rule, from the floor. Children crawl on the strength and experience everything what can reach.
Make the floor on which it is impossible to slip
Even when the child is not able to walk or crawl, slip may be parents who have a baby in her arms. What to do, that did not happen:
- Choose non-slip flooring.
- Put on a particularly dangerous place mats.
- And all of these mats necessarily stick (or at least keep them on the silicone pads to have the mat does not slide itself).
- Glue to the floor corners and edges of large carpets to them can not be tripped over.
Clean off the floor small items
Small objects - it coins, needles, buttons, batteries, nails, ornaments. All the boxes, which store small and crumbly, should stand at a height of not less than one meter.
Hide wires, ropes and bags
Wires and cords tightened on his wrists, wrapped around the legs and even the neck. And packages are suddenly on their heads and hinder breathing, so keep them in places where they do not involve children rustling and bright colors. Everything wire (Even from the extension) must either be phased out and folded, or attached to the walls and the floor, so that it was impossible for them to stumble.
Close the entrance to the dangerous places
For example, you have a ladder - to the second floor or in a basement. Entrance to the staircase must be closed a special screen, and the screen is firmly locked. Make such protections can be their own hands, but in general they are sold and resemble baby cots.
Remove the flowers
Move higher flowersWhich can be toxic. Children can easily try a few leaves to taste. Just make sure that the leaves are not hung to the floor, or in the permutation pots would not make sense.
How to prepare furniture
Most often, children injure your fingers due to slamming doors and drawers, and even dropping the items off the shelves and benches. Therefore, the furniture must be fixed and secure.
Close the shelf
Do not leave home furniture with open shelves. Rack - it's not safe. The child can climb on him like the stairs, and how it will end - it is unknown. If the racks do not want to change, you should at least make sure they are securely fastened to the wall, and each shelf is securely locked and can withstand the weight of the child.
Remove the tablecloth off the table
Tablecloth with overhanging edges can be left on the table only if it does not cost anything, and the table does not falter and it can not overturn (because it is bolted to the floor).
Secure furniture
All furniture must be attached to the walls. Too often it happens that the children's curiosity overcomes the force of gravity, and studied cabinets, chests of drawers and shelves fall on children. In such cases, a simple fracture - it is luck. Televisions, stereos, speakers, and all the other equipment is also necessary to fix.
Make soft corners
Close sharp corners or silicone rubber pads, which can cushion the blow.
Close bottom drawer
Best of all - the castle. Children love something open and examine the contents. Any boxes can only be used if the child will not be able to pull them completely. If you can (even in theory), they are also better close that was not that the child pulled the handle and knocked over the box and all its contents.
If the box is a small (and the child can not climb into it and accidentally closed it) and easy (and a child without giving the fingers), and inside lies something soft and safe (socks), the lock is not required. But if it's a box of tools, buttons or household cleaning productsThen it should be on the lock (and key - higher).
How to prepare the walls and windows
Do not leave windows open
Windows must be closed, that the child himself could not discover them by accident. When you need to ventilate the room, use constraints that do not allow the window to swing open to such an extent that in scholku child could crawl through.
Do not rely on the window grid. They will help to keep from jumping into the street cat, but under the weight of relying child fall out or even torn. Therefore, leave the child in a room with a window open to the grid, even more dangerous than in a room with a window open - because of the false illusion that the grid will not fall.
Do not place furniture under the window so that the child could not get through it on the windowsill.
Check curtains
Curtains and blinds in terms of security - are sets of large and small pitches. Sometimes they even hang-threatening breathing trivia: stoppers, beads. Therefore, sophisticated design with plenty of cords, fringe, decorative items from the windows have to be removed and replaced by the most simple. Desirably such, to which the child is not dotyanet.
Replace or lock socket
The best option - to reinstall the entire apartment sockets, replacing them with a safe. plastic plugs better than nothing, but only if they are really hard to get. Otherwise there is a risk that the child is only interested in this little thing that's so cool vykolupyvat from the wall.
Protect mirror
Mirrors cover the back of the protective film. If the mirror will break or fall, the fragments do not fly in all directions (or fly, but not as much as without the film).
How to prepare your kitchen
Kitchen - is the most dangerous in terms of the injury area. Therefore, it requires special rules.
Hide cutlery
Remove to a safe place knives and forks. In general, all sharp kitchen items: skewer for grilling, even sharp grater and opener. With these items it is necessary to introduce a child under the parent control.
Hide dangerous products
Remove taller hazardous foods. This bottle with vinegar, pack with soda and salt, hot spices, bottles of alcohol.
Make safe plate
Use gas stoves and gas panel with control sensors: sensors are turned off the gas supply to the burner if there is no fire. So you protect the house from an accidental leak, if the child will turn the handle plate.
At the edge of the plate can be installed a special screen, which does not allow the child to reach out to a fire or a hot surface.
Get into the habit not to put hot objects on the table.
How to prepare a bath
The bathroom is the main danger - the slippery floor and water. Drowning - one of the most common causes of childhood deaths from injuries, and all because young children do not need much. They can drown in just a bucket or basin of water. Therefore, in the bathroom the rules.
Do not leave a child near water
Even if you just put a basin and poured fresh water into it to a child to play. Play with it, do not leave alone with water. Even on the hill for swimming, even with the rubber ring at the neck. It is clear that as they grow older the child the rule will become less strict.
Spread the bottom of the bathtub slip mat so that the child slipped and hit the edge of the tub.
Hide the dangerous substances and articles
Clean household chemicals so far and close securely so as soon as possible. poisoning and burnsCaused by the fact that the child tasted cleaner pipe, an incredibly dangerous. Shampoos, shower gels and aftershaves too clean away from the children's curiosity.
The bathroom can be a dangerous items: razors, tweezers, tongs, hair dryer. Find a place for them, to which the child does not make it.
Hide any aerosols. Even if they do not have anything poisonous, they risk of eye contact.
You can certainly say that this list is too long, that children do not need superbezopasnaya environment that difficulties should temper the child that had somehow all grew up without any problems. But in such cases triggered Murphy's Law: anything that can go wrong, go wrong or harm, will do it. So Meet the child with all surrounding objects under the strict supervision of the parent and complete the list of your tips in the comments.