How to make the house safe for baby

If your child entered the age of the slide, then it's time to turn the house upside down. Your cozy home with attention to detail the interior, with cute knickknacks on the shelves and flowers on the window sills completely safe for the child. Toddlers are very curious and persistent in their attempts to obtain, examine and taste are interested in their subject. To avoid injury, it is necessary beforehand to remove all sources of potential danger.

The main condition for the safety of the child - the constant supervision

Even if your child is just starting to crawl, or makes the first steps, do not underestimate its ability to immediately climb to where you should not. And with each passing day it becomes more and more bright.

Make life easier for parents and to protect the child from injury will help playpens, safety barriers and security gates (especially on stairs, if you have them). But they do not guarantee absolute protection, so try to have a child was always in sight.

Sources of potential dangers

Try to look at the surroundings through the eyes of a child. You can even get up on all fours and crawl around the house: so you will immediately understand what is within reach baby. Keep in mind that it will sooner or later make it to all, to which you can reach. Think about it, you can bump that can be swallowed, it is possible to drop on yourself and what you can get lost.

Here is what is a potential threat.

1. small objects

All that fits in the mouth, can be ingested, so it is best to remove all loose and away higher. This is especially true of coins and batteries.

2. Plants

Some houseplants poisonous. Check whether you have these, and if there is, move them to the place where the child can not reach them.

3. Wires and cords

It's not just about the wires from electrical equipment, for which the child can pull and drop the device itself, but also about the power cord from the blinds. Rewind them, so they are not hung, and secure so that they can not be pull.

4. Sharp corners, doors, sources of burns

Replace the corners of tables, cabinets and other furniture with hard edges special soft nozzle. If you have a fireplace or a very hot batteries around them should put the safety barriers. Also does not hurt to buy blockers for interior doors that will not allow the baby to shut the door, and pinch your fingers.

5. sockets

Most likely, you already have plastic plugs for outlets. They are certainly better than nothing, but it should still install special sockets with child protection. There are several modifications of such outlets, eg sockets, which are opened only by rotating the plug.

6. hazardous substances

Drugs, detergents, vinegar - all this must be kept out of reach of the child. Remove all chemicals and medicines on the uppermost shelf, to where even you will not be easy to get them.

7. sharp objects

First eliminate the access to the knives and forks. Install bollards or special locks on the drawers with cutlery.

8. Window

If your baby has learned to climb on the couches and chairs, so not far off the day when he will be able to climb on the windowsill. Better to take care of its security and install any handles with locks, lockable or special blockers on sash windows.

What you'll need

So, you have your home inspected and found out that he could be a threat to small but ever-present member of the family. To summarize and make a list of what should be obtained at:

• tips on the corners and edges of furniture;
• sockets with child protection or plugs;
• Brackets for curtain cords;
• Window handle with a lock or blocker flaps;
• locks or Bollards on the cabinet doors and drawers;
• blockers interior doors;
• devices for securing furniture to walls (eg, special belts);
• playpen, child safety barriers and gates, which are attached to the walls.

Of course, everything can not be foreseen and the child still does not nabot one lump before learn caution. Your task - to make sure that there were only cones, and not something more serious.