Protecting and Safeguarding Your Baby and Toddler - 15 Prevention Points

Becoming a parent can be a daunting challenge and a wonderful privilege, however despite possessing great child-rearing skills, injuries and accidents sometimes happen.

It's vital to do everything that you can to look at all preventative measures you can, to ensure your baby's protection. You can never start out prematurely with this endeavor, even before baby is brought home from the hospital. Obtaining a new car seat is one of a parents' first safety task as a new mom or dad.

Following are some infant and toddler accident prevention tips, but is not an exhaustive list:

1. By no means place a baby's crib or other child furniture right close to a window.

2. Keep curtain and shutter wires rolled away (or tied up) out of reach of the infant.

3. Use electrical plug covers with regards to covering electrical sockets. Kids love to put anything in there they can.

4. Utilize baby gateways at both the top and bottom of the staircases, and any space you would want to keep the child out of.

5. Install the commode with toilet seat locks. There have been sad accounts of babies and toddlers falling in and drowning.

6. Don't forget about poisonous plants and children - symptoms and tips to stay safe from the poison. There are more out there, including common plants that most parents are aware of. Thoroughly study more advice on this subject.

7. Set all cleaning items in a top space cupboard and keep secured; same goes with all medications and health supplements. Request your pharmacist fill all prescriptions with child-proofed caps.

8. Put window guards around the baby's area and all upper home windows. Be sure to include any other windows in the house that your little one could fall out of.

9. Make sure all smoke alarms have brand new batteries and are functional.

10. Obtain carbon dioxide alarms if you don't already have any.

11. Make sure you have functioning fire extinguishers in the home, and that you have several strategically placed.

12. Guarantee the child's toy box doesn't possess heavy lidded hinges, or anything that could possibly pinch fingers or even trap a child. If you have old freezers or other large appliances around; remove them, or secure them shut with a locked chain.

13. Examine closely baby's sleeping area, no pillows for infants and don't use too many blankets. More recent recommendations also suggest not using crib bumper pads. You don't want anything in there that could be a suffocation risk.

14. Virtually any bookcases in the home should be bolted to the walls to counteract tipping over if a child decides to climb up them.

15. During pregnancy, or as soon as possible, enroll in a child and infant CPR class. Every parent should equip themselves with this knowledge. It's one of those things that is so easy to procrastinate, but don't, because you never know when you may need it, and it could save a life.

Every house is unique and can have dangers that are situational for that particular home. Get down on your hands and knees, and crawl like a infant all through your residence, having a specific eye for, "how can one get hurt, and what can I get into". If you have other children, enlist their help in the project. Remember such actions curious babies take, such as climbing, yanking and snagging cords and other objects. Move room by room through the entire house to gain access to your own specific baby prevention tips.

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