Kitting the house out like Colditz (Health and Safety in General)

Member Name: sympatic

Product:	Health and Safety in General
Date:	01/03/09 (73 review reads)
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Advantages: Sleep safely at night

Disadvantages: Can be over protective

There are so many practical ways that you can make your house safe for little toddlers and some of them are mostly common sense however it is always a good idea to get another pair of eyes into the house as they will se things that you are used to and so do not see the risk, when I was having my niece over to stay for the very first time I was paranoid about making sure the house was safe for her as she was at the crawling into everything stage and you had to watch her like a hawk.

The first thing that I did was to get safety plugs installed in all the sockets so little fingers could not get into places they should not. I then removed all of the cleaning stuff from under the sink and this went into a box in the garage.

We also had a massive clean up to ensure as much clutter was removed and that she had plenty of big spaces in which to crawl, it was amazing as well how much stuff we then could throw away as we realised we never used it or the magazines were very old and would never get looked at again.

Finally we borrowed a couple of stair gates to make sure that the stairs were secure. If I had her staying longer term or oldr kids I would definately consider a door alarm which would let me know when it was opened.

You can take things to extreme but I reckon it is better to be safe rather than sorry.

Summary: Safe baby proof houses