One of my dearest girlfriends’ babies have learned to crawl and we’ve been helping her with baby proofing her house. This is a safety requirement that must be put in all houses with very curious babies and toddlers, to avoid accidents. You don’t want to find your baby with a bump in her head, or a cut in her arms, or worse, suffocating or falling down something hurting her seriously.

Here are the things you need to take note of when it comes to baby proofing:

1. Survey the house for lower cabinets and drawers that babies may reach and try to pry open. These need child locks so that they won’t be able to open this and get their hands or themselves caught on the door or drawer.

2. Toddlers can already reach oven or stove knobs. When they see Mommy doing this, they wanna try and do the same thing and sometimes do this when Mom isn’t looking. Buy stove cover knobs to prevent any untoward incident like fire burning down the property or your child.

3. A toilet lid lock was one of the first baby proofing product I got for our house. And this is also great with keeping dogs from drinking onto the bowl, which is unsanitary.

4. Of all the baby proofing products to get, a corner guard one is a real life saver. Corner guards are those things you place on the edge of coffe tables. They tend to be sharp and can really hurt the baby. Adults can benefit from this too. I noticed that I bruise less with corner guards around.

Planning a nursery? All people are given the freehand to build their baby rooms or nurseries and apparently a new addition to that has to do with eco-friendliness for the sake of health living for tots.

Most designs starting from the crib all the way to baby furniture have become health hazards as we see toddlers encountering some unfortunate incidents that has to do with chemicals and accidents. CoCalo however has a great offer to all parents out there and perhaps they should check it out.

CoCaLo uses environmentally friendly fiber-reactive dyes, which contain no heavy metals or known toxic substances. The process used at the print facility is in accordance with environmental standards for water purification and recycling.

Give your toddlers a safer environment apart from the health-constrained world we live in. Keep them healthy with a cozy and worry-free sleeping environment.

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There has been some research done about kids and accidents, including what gender and age groups have them the most, and what kinds of accidents they have.  Here, in no particular order, are 10 interesting pieces of information about kids and accidents.  These facts only apply to accidents that happen to kids.

1. 74.5% of all accidents that befall kids happen to kids under the age of 5.
2. Boys are more accident prone than girls (they’ve obviously never met my kids!).
3. The most accidents for both sexes happen to 2 and 3 year olds.
4. Cuts are the most common type of accident, followed by falls and poisoning.
5. Other common accidents include burns, object in the nostril, bloody noses, head injuries, choking, bruises, stings, broken bones, and strained muscles.
6. 1 in 3 children using a walker suffers an injury because of it.  Most of them fall down steps in their walkers.
7. Lacerations are the most common playground injury.
8. 25% of gunshot wounds that are not fatal result in permanent brain damage.
9. Swings and slides cause the most playground injuries.
10. The #1 cause of death in all children up to age 14 is car crashes.  70% of kids aren’t properly restrained in cars.

So, heads up, parents.  We can’t wrap them in bubble wrap (they get all sweaty), but we can minimize the risks as much as possible.