Babyproofing Your Home

Bedroom Safety

  • Keep pillows out of the crib until your baby is a year old.

  • Install electrical outlet plugs to protect your baby from shock.

  • Keep small jewelry, perfumes and colognes, shoe polishing materials, belts, scarves, and ties out of your baby's reach.

  • Never lock a baby into a room.

  • Make sure closets can be opened from the inside, so that your toddler doesn't get locked in.

  • Never allow your baby to sleep with a bib on.

  • Keep older children's toys out of your baby's reach.

  • Keep button batteries away from your child; they can cause intoxication with mercury and acid. Button batteries can be found in watches, small toys, computer games, and other small gadgets. In the United States there is a 24-hour emergency consultation service called the National Button Battery Ingestion Hotline (202-625-3333). Over a 7-year period they followed 2382 cases of swallowed batteries. Of these, 62 were larger cylindrical batteries, and the rest were buttons.
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