06/10/2024
As a parent, ensuring your home is safe for your little ones to grow and explore is a top priority. While most parents are installing baby gates, outlet covers, and safety locks, certain crucial baby proofing measures are often overlooked.
Here are some of Vancouver Baby Proofers tips to address frequently forgotten babyproofing measures:
Cable, Wire, and Cord Management
Cables, wires, and cords can be found everywhere around the house – whether for our free-standing lamps or tucked behind the TV stand – they pose a significant risk to curious toddlers such as choking hazards and electrical dangers.
Before you know it, your toddler is going to be crawling into spaces and managing to reach things you didn't think possible. Products such as cable covers for your floor, cord shorteners for your blinds, or secure power strips for desks and TVs can all significantly reduce the risk cables, wires, and cords impose in your home.
Secure Furniture
Whether your toddler is climbing on furniture or even attempting to reach something on a shelf without a stable arrangement, we tend to underestimate how easily unsecured furniture can tip over and cause serious injuries.
Anti-tip straps or brackets anchor furniture such as bookshelves, dressers, or cabinets to the wall, preventing the furniture from tipping over as your toddler attempts to explore it.
Adapt Forms of Storage
An overwhelming number of parents have said that their biggest miss in baby proofing was accounting for just how much was truly in reach of their crawling toddler. Open-faced shelves will be emptied in seconds and the shoe rack will be inspected (keep in mind - babies put everything in their mouths).
With a curious toddler roaming around, it may be time to reconsider certain forms of storage. Transitioning to drawers and cupboards that can be secured with safety locks is an easy way to keep unwanted items out of your little ones' reach.
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