Safety For Baby – Part 1
A is for awareness of parents and caretakers about potential hazards in the child's environment, including nursery products.
B is for Baby.
C is for caution selecting and maintaining products for the child's environment.
S is for safety the sum of ABC's.
Safety alerts and recall hotline – 1-800-638-2772
This list of safety precautions is information from U.S Consumer Product Safety Commission.
More infants die every year in accidents involving cribs than any other nursery product. If we are picking from nurseries and kindergartens and childcare, we have to go for safety first place. It is tempting to pick out something, because it is the nicest, or creative - but if it hurts, or even take the lives of our baby, what's good that cuteness and creativity? Choose safety first!
Corner posts on cribs should not be extended to more than 1 / 16 (1 ½) mm above the top of the front wall. Corner postcan catch points made for items worn around the neck of the child or the clothing of a child. Mattress support hangers should be secured by bolts or closed hooks, and frequently reviewed.
Bumper pads should fit around the entire crib, tie or drove into town and have straps or compounds at least in each corner, in the middle of each long side, and both the upper and lower edges. To prevent your baby that involved in the relationship, cut excess length after tying. Use theBumper, the child can pull up to a standing position, then remove them so that the baby they will not try to use to climb out of the crib.
Remove and destroy plastic materials. Never use plastic bags as mattress covers. The plastic film may be a baby's face and cling cause suffocation.
Make sure the mattress fits tightly to the body. If you have more than two fingers between the edge of the mattress and crib side match, the mattress is too small. AChild can suffocate if the head or body becomes wedged between the mattress and crib sides.
Never use a crib with broken or missing parts. Avoid older cribs with headboard and footboard designs that may allow a child's head, into the openings between the corner posts and top rail, or in other openings in the top of the front wall catch structure. The strangulation can cause .. Do not use cribs with decorative buttons. The knobs should be unscrewed or sawed off and the surfaceground flush.
To reduce (SIDS), Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, put your baby to sleep on his or her back in a crib on a firm, flat mattress. Make sure there are no soft bedding underneath your baby.
Ask your child never sleep on an adult, water bed or bunk bed. Children under the age of 18 months can suffocate in their sleep when their bodies or faces wedged between the mattress and bed frame or mattress and wall.
Set never been a crib, crib or furniturenear window blinds or curtains. Children can strangle on window cable or can fall through screens. If local fire codes permit window guards, install them. Make sure that all cables out of the reach of children. CPSC has numerous reports of strangulation deaths on window blind cords obtained over the years. Thus cable out of the reach of children, use tie-down devices, or with the loop cable and cut it in half to make two separate strands.
Consumers should be toll-free numbers (800) 506-4636 toreceive a free repair kit for each set of blinds in her house.
Never use strings to any object, hanging like a mobile phone or a toy or a diaper bag, on or near the crib where a child could be trapped in it and suffocate. If you toy with rope or elastic for hanging, cut the strings / cords off.
To prevent strangulation, NEVER tie pacifiers / teethers around your child's neck. Remove bibs and necklaces whenever you put your baby in the crib or playpen.
Always Blockthe side rail in its raised position when you place your child in the manger. Once your child can get up, adjust the mattress to its lowest position and remove the brake blocks. Also remove any large toys-an active child will use anything for climbing out of the cradle.
When your child reaches 35 inches (890 mm) in height, he / she has outgrown the crib and should sleep in a bed.
Never use plastic bags as mattress covers. The plastic film may cause suffocation.
SecureBumper pads around the entire crib and snap or tie in place at least in each corner, in the middle of each long side, and both the upper and lower edges. Trim excess string length.
Never leave your child unattended in or around water. Small children can drown as soon as it takes to grab a towel, answer the phone or the door. Hot water can scald. To avoid burns, make sure the water with your wrist or elbow. The skin is delicate and sensitive in these areas, and is theclosest substitute to the sensitivity of the baby's skin. Only the tub to fill with enough water to cover the baby's or young child. All you need is enough water in the mouth and nose in a baby drown on the cover. Pay attention to your baby at any and all water.
When picking out a baby gate to get a top with a straight edge and rigid bars or mesh screen, or an accordion style gate with small V shapes and diamond-shaped openings. Be sure it's safeanchored. Gates bar with a growing pressure on the page should be removed from the child.
All parents and guardians should know, child CPR. If you have questions about the safety of each product. Please contact the Commission for security at the phone number above.
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