How To Babyproof Your Home? Safety Products For Babies

Each year, children are injured by hazards in and around the home.

 

The good news is that the risk of injury can be reduced or prevented by using child-safety devices and reminding older children in the house to re-secure safety devices after disabling them.

 

Most of these safety devices are easy to find and are relatively inexpensive. You can buy them at hardware stores, baby equipment shops, supermarkets, drug stores, home improvement stores, on the Internet, and through mail-order catalogs. Safety devices should be sturdy enough to hinder access and yet easy for you to use.

Safety Gate

A safety gate will be a must-have in pretty much any home, to keep your little explorer out of rooms that may not be child-safe or to place at the bottom of stairs to prevent them from attempting an ascent.

 

You can also disable the auto-close function and leave it open if you want to at any time. It’s easy to operate as an adult one-handed, which any parent will appreciate as an essential criterion too.

 

Look for safety gates that children cannot dislodge easily, but that adults can open and close without difficulty. From the top of the stairs, only use gates that screw to the wall. Use safety gates that meet current safety standards. Replace the older safety gates that have “V” shapes that are large enough to entrap a child’s head and neck.

Electrical outlet covers

Power outlets are an obvious potential hazard for little fingers and so outlet covers are top of most parents’ babyproofing shopping list.

 

Automatic outlet covers are most important, unlike the traditional plastic safety plugs that you have to remove each time you want to use the outlet and which can sometimes be removed by a determined toddler and present a choking hazard, these are self-closed covers and remain permanently placed.

 

Window guard and safety net

homes with young children in order to help prevent strangulation. Children can wrap window covering cords around their necks or can pull cords that are not clearly visible but are accessible and become entangled in the loops. If you have window blinds from 2000 or earlier and cannot afford new, cordless window coverings.

 

Window blinds that have an inner cord (for raising the slats of the blinds) can be pulled by a child and form a potentially deadly loop. Consumers should immediately repair these types of blinds. Consumers should know that WCSC’s retrofit kits do not address the dangling pull cord hazard associated with many common window blinds.

Magnetic lock system

Once your little one starts crawling and investigating, you’ll need to ensure that some cabinets and drawers are strictly off-limits. The ingenious thing about this magnetic drawer and door lock system.

 

These locks are that not only are they toddler-proof but also invisible from the outside too—no more unsightly locks or need to drill into your furniture. The only thing that you need to be wary of is that you don’t lose the magnetic keys, otherwise you’ll be locked out of your own cabinets as well.

Key takeaway

To be effective, they must be properly installed. Follow installation instructions carefully. Remember, too, that no device is completely childproof; determined youngsters are known to overcome or disable them.

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