Baby Proofing

Now that Daniel is able to crawl fast in a spiderman style. Over the weekend, we urgently baby-proofed our house , at least downstairs lounge and kitchen. Terry steam-cleaned the carpet for whole house. Terry used Daniel's old flower cushion, which Daniel never use again, to surround the house plant ( to prevent Daniel from eating compost, he was very interested in doing that) and hide the cables behind the TV cabinet (saved buying Cable Tidy). The mat from the cushion has been used to wrap around the corner of coffee table. Also, we urgently bought some socket covers and fridge lockers from Mothercare. Stair gates are the next thing to buy.

There will always be areas that are unsafe. Last night when I read this: every year children die because they pull furniture down on top of themselves, or because they scale chairs and tables to reach open Windows. Tow years olds have even been known to hang themselves from curtain cords, Terry told me to put two big vases on top of our display cabinet away immediately and I did. This morning when we woke up Terry said he had a nightmare about Daniel falling down staircase. Later I also found 3 decoration balls on the top shelf of the display cabinet has gone as well. Terry must put them away after I've gone to bed.

It has already been felt that the home is a bit like a death trap for babies and toddlers. I did remember I climbed high windows when I was a tot and jumped height. When you think about it, it's surprising how any of us made it to the adulthood.