Home Changes

Once your baby realizes that she/he’s able to move around by her/himself, she/he will find the most dangerous, life-threatening places in your home to mess around. So now it is time to begin to make changes around your house! You can try to get down on your hands and knees to check things out from your baby’s perspective.

Start with the basics:

  1. Move anything valuable out of the baby’s reach.
    Bolt bookshelves and other free-standing cabinets to the wall (this goes double if you live in earthquake country);
  2. Don’t hang heavy things on the stroller — it can tip over.
  3. Get special guards for your radiators and move your space heaters and electric fans off the floor.
  4. Install a safety gate at the bottom and top of every stairway.
  5. Adjust your water heater temperature to 120F degrees.
  6. Get a fire extinguisher and put smoke alarms in every bedroom.




Childproofing the House

Once your baby realizes that she/he’s able to move around by her/himself, she/he will find the most dangerous, life-threatening places in your home to mess around. So now it is time to begin child-proofing your house! You can try to get down on your hands and knees to check things out from your baby’s perspective. [...]

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Nursery Checklists

While planning and preparing for the arrival of your baby you may feel overwhelming and exhausting with so many things to do!!! To help you remember everything you may need, we created a handy checklist just for that!
It’s easy to use!!! You scroll down the list we made, pick and choose checking all it [...]

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