It is not easy being a parent for the first time. Becoming a parent can overwhelm you with emotions and the duty to provide them their necessities but most of all giving a secure home for your little one.
Before the birth of my son, I actually got on my hands and knees and crawled around the house to get a perspective of what a baby sees. My eyes had sights on a button, a dime, and a toothpick. I even saw wall sockets out in the open that babies can jab anything into and various tiny things that babies can put inside their mouth. I always kept an eye on him when he started to walk. Products for child protection were not available in our house. We had no safety gates, safety locks and latches, outlet covers, furniture cushions, window guards and gates to prevent pets from going near the baby or the other way around. At no time did we ever took our eyes off him, we didn't want to risk him getting hurt. What we lacked before in child safety products can now be purchased in stores.
To make your home safe for your baby, and peace of mind for yourself, there are a number of things you can do to make a happy, safe environment for your child to play and grow up in without it feeling like a fortress. As a rule, if a thing is small and fits the hole of a toilet paper tube, then your child can't have it. When children discover things, they tend to place it in their mouths. Pay particular attention to all floors in the house and see if anything is likely to be put in their mouth that can cause suffocation. If you have balloons in your house, do not ever let your child have them. There have been deaths from children swallowing balloons. From what I learned, a friend of mine gave his brother a balloon as an amusement and tragically his brother accidentally died from it.
If you want to keep children away from a certain area, like the stairs and especially the pool side, safety gates can be appropriate for that. Safety belts are useful to secure your baby when you change her/his diaper on the changing table or when she's eating in his/her high chair. If you should leave your child on the bed, make sure that there is company to look after her/him. Safety locks and latches are very helpful in prohibiting children from accessing poisonous or toxic materials in the house such as poisons, cleansers, medicine and even matches. The storage must be in a place that is unreachable to kids.
Place your baby's crib away from electric cords, curtains and curtain cords and never ever, even for a second, leave your child on his/her own in the bathtub as advised by the American Academy of Family Physicians. Every year, 3,582 deaths in little children are linked to accidental drowning, either it happens in the bathtub, pool, bucket (water not even reaching 2 inches in height can already kill) or toilet (that's why we have toilet lockers). Inspect all toys are harmless for children to play with. Houseplants are not toys, so keep them in a place where the children can't reach it.
Every year, accidents that are caused at home have affected more than two million children. Be thorough with the condition of your environment at home. Do you find it safe for him/her or do you have to make necessary adjustments so that it can be safer? However, the best defense obviously is the continuous vigilance of your child's activities, where he/she goes and what he/she does. By then when your child reaches puberty, you will know what to do. Be constantly knowledgeable of your children's plans and actions. They will become responsible parents like what you are to them, when they later decide to have a family of their own.
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