Max is now a fully fledged toddler, and into EVERYTHING. I really do mean everything. He opens cupboards and takes out all the stuff inside, he climbs the stairs and the ladder to the top bunk. He opens doors and escapes into the garden. He gets into the tiniest spaces and either gets stuck, or finds forbidden items that we had hidden away.
It’s definitely high time we toddler proofed.
Now I don’t believe in toddler proofing every single thing in your home. I think it is good for children to learn a few boundaries where they can, and understand right and wrong. The door to our garden leads just to our garden – he can’t get out, and so that will not be toddler proofed. The worst he can do is go and get wet socks – we will just continue to say ‘no’ if he can’t go out, or encourage him to put his boots on if he can.
One area I will not risk is kitchen cupboards. Not only do I not want him stealing food, I also don’t want him pulling out glass jars, heavy tins or chemicals that could harm him. I find cupboard locks the best option here – especially the magnetic ones, as they are installed inside the drawers and cupboards. This means there is no way that Max can get to them, and because you can’t see them, they don’t ruin the look of my new kitchen either!
Another area of high priority are the stairs. We live in a 3 storey house, and so have 2 flights of stairs. If Max fell or slipped, he could really, really hurt himself. At the moment we have a stair gate across the living room doorway so that he cannot get to the stairs without an adult, and another gate across the second flight of stairs. I do want to get another to put across his bedroom doorway too – now that he has worked out how to open doors, I don’t want him wandering around upstairs at naptime, going into our bedroom or the bathroom without us realising. That’s definitely the next thing on my toddler proofing shopping list!
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fell down the stairs at 8 months old, top to bottom when the baby gate installed by flying start orked its way loose from the wall
great giveaway and jut what I need for my niece x
Fell off the bed, was cushioned by a folded up rug, but then rolled off that under the bed, so when I went back into the room, she was missing!
Climbing out of the cot, his bedrooms right at the top of the stairs and hes only 9 months :O
When her sister accidentally trapped her fingers in the door. 3 purple fingers and bruises but thankfully no broken bones. I always have moments like this when she cries with food in her mouth as she has taken a breathe before and started choking. She is 4 now and I still am a worrying mother!
My little boy has fallen out of a tree.
He’s jait turning 8 months so nothing so far, but I know there’s many heart in mouth moments to come!
Getting her toe caught in the underneath leg of the computer chair
Swimming lessons give me that heart in your mouth feeling all the time, I hate dunking her under.
put her fingers in the dogs mouth
sitting at the top of the stairs on his bike!
This week my 7 Month old was laying on his tummy couldn’t crawl so left the room for 2 minutes came back and he had crawled over to the TV wires and was seconds from putting them in his mouth, From that moment ive baby proofed the house. It really scared me x
attempted to pick up daddy’s keyboard mouse which meant she had to reach for it from a sitting position and as she has not much balance yet it could have been a huge fall
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was when he crawled up the stairs for the first time
Mine jammed her fingers in the sideboard cupboard, so we’ve had to block it off x
My youngest only yesterday whilst learning to walk went a bit fast and fell over and banged his head on the coffee table. Left with an egg shaped bruise on his head!
He tried to climb out of the window once and we live on the 3 and 4th floors – a long way down! Don’t open windows more than a crack now lol! I didn’t realise at the time that he could reach it!
My little boy when 3 feel backwards all the way down a full flight of stairs, over and over doing cartwheels it was horrific, obviously a trip to A&E though luckily even though they wanted to keep him in for observation he was fine, I think I did more damage to me flying down the stairs after him!
My wee one just started crawling need to baby proof house fast lol
My two year old fell down the stairs after he slipped in his onesie trying to get into his bedroom it was awful and we spent a couple of hours in A&E
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