Tips For Baby Safety
One of a parents’ main concerns is the safety of their baby. It takes some thought to realize some of the potential dangers to your baby. Making your home safe takes some good thinking and planning, and this gets especially true once the baby is crawling and walking. These are not things that should be learned by trial and error, it’s too dangerous. Not all homes are alike, so all these tips may not apply, but they will give you some good things to think about and point you in the way you want to go.
Purses are something to watch for. Babies love to fiddle with things inside of purses, even if it belongs to someone else who just may be visiting. Of course, there are things in purses that babies should not get hold of. Like pens, make-up, nail files, medications, etc.
Cleaning becomes a little extra important, since babies are on the floor a lot and will grab things put them in their mouths. Keeping things safely up where the baby can’t reach is a good rule to follow. It’s easy to focus on something else for a few seconds, while the baby uses that few seconds to investigate something it shouldn’t. Things like mop buckets should never be accessible to your baby.
As far as the furniture, anything that can be turned over easily by the baby should be fixed in a way that it can’t, or it should be removed. Make sure the high chair is not against walls or anything that they can push off from and use as leverage, maybe turning themselves over. Anything with peeling or chipped paint shouldn’t be exposed to the baby.
When checking out every room in the house, do it from the perspective of the baby. Try to think like them, and envision what they may do. Get a floor level view if necessary.
Breastfeeding mothers like to keep the baby in the bed with them, rather than putting them down in a crib. There are a few baby safety tips to keep in mind here as well:
(1). Never let them sleep in the adult bed by themselves. We know they can fall off the bed, but sometimes people don’t think about them getting caught where the headboard and mattress meet, or the bed and the wall.
(2). Some people will lay their baby on their stomachs to sleep, but the proper way is on their back. It’s been thought that SIDS may be linked to putting babies to sleep on their stomach.
(3). If the baby is under a year old, to avoid suffocation, use securely fitted sheets. And DON’T use comforters, thick quilts, thick blankets, or pillows.
(4). Ensure when your baby’s sleeping, it can’t fall out. A bed rail is very handy, but if you don’t have one, put one side of the bed against the wall, and be sure to sleep on the side without the wall with baby in the middle. And babies should be between parents and wall, not between the two adults.
(5). Feather beds, beanbags, water beds, or soft mattresses are all bad ideas. A good firm mattress is the best for your baby.
(6). Parents who use alcohol, or are on medication, shouldn’t let the baby sleep with you in the bed. You are putting your baby at risk if you do this.
(7). Things like pillows, stuffed animals, or blankets are potential hazards for strangulation. They are suffocation dangers as well.
(8). Falling asleep with the baby on a couch, or a puffy sofa or chair are also places where the baby may end up wedged in and suffocate.
(9). Having too many people in the same bed with as the baby is not good. Make sure if you’re sharing the bed with other children that there is adequate room for both the comfort and the safety of your baby.
I hope some of Baby Safety Tips above could help you out to care your little angle.
