Baby Proofing

I am still wondering if you can completely 'babyproof' your whole house? When i was pregnant with my Daughter, me and my Fiance went shopping and bought every type of safety measure you can imagine. Now she is 20 months old, i do realise we may have gone a little overboard as we only have about 13 plug sockets in the whole house so not sure why we bought 40 socket covers but never mind! We bought safety gates, corner covers, cupboard locks the lot! The thing is, now she is 20 months old, she tend just to pull these protectors off and throw them to one side. I bought a safety pack from Tesco as i believe their baby products to be very trustworthy. In this pack were ...  Read the complete review

Baby proofing a home is an ongoing process. My son as a baby was the most chilled out baby you have ever met. If he couldn't reach something he couldn't reach he just accepted it and found something he could. One he could crawl, stand and now walk this became a different scenario. My son learnt how to climb the stairs before her could walk and as we were in temporary accommodation I was unable to put up a stair gate. When I finally got my own home I bought myself a stair gate but needed an extension and had to wait a few days for this to be delivered during this time my son climbed halfway up the stairs while I was building a table and when I ...  Read the complete review

When you have a child it is not true that you need to put big ten inch thick chains on your kitchen cupboards, glue your breakables to the ceiling and hoover your floor twenty times a day to ensure your precious baby doesn't swallow a biscuit crumb that has been left hanging around for a few minutes. I have two boys and I keep my knifes in a pile on the dining room floor, my bleach doesn't have any top on the bottle and my son sits on the hob while I'm using it! Ok so maybe it's not that bad but I do believe that you should teach a child in the ways they should go and eventually they will listen and do as they are told. Don't get me wrong I am not irresponsible at ...  Read the complete review

Having already been a Mum, I was determined not to make my home a bubble wrapped place where no one could do anything for fear of harming the baby. I insisted I wasn't going to baby proof anything and she would learn by us teaching her that certain things weren't for her inquisitive little fingers. By making that above statement eighteen months ago, I have since learnt I was both right and wrong to say it. Right because I believe every child needs to learn what they can and can't touch as not every place they go to will be child proofed. Wrong because I have spend many a stressful day trying to remove things from her grasp when she got them without ...  Read the complete review

My house is fairly child-proof as I have two older children. No breakables or sharp things lying around in this house. All the wardrobes are attached to the wall and the windows are locked. But we have a baby who looks like he is about to crawl so baby-proofing is on my mind again. My top tip is: wait until your child is moving and see what they go for. Think about it, be prepared, but hold off turning your house into Fort Knox. When my daughter was about 8 months old we baby-proofed the house - locks on every cupboard, gates on every step, guards on all the appliances, a fireguard that encompassed half the living room. We stopped short of padding the walls... ...  Read the complete review