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When you have a baby for the first time, it's hard to know what baby safety products you need. But doing a little research and reading before the baby is born can help to prepare you.

Baby Safety Products in the Kitchen

The kitchen poses a lot of threats to a baby who's curious and crawling around. They want to touch and taste everything to get familiar with the world around them. But inside the lower cabinets in your kitchen are heavy pots and pans, sometimes glass bowls and possibly chemical cleaners. If you're able to store the cleaners on a shelf up high, do it. If not, cabinet locks are a cheap way to go. Eventually, when your toddler can pull herself up, she might use drawer handles to help her along. Obviously, this is a hazard. And when she's old enough to reach in the drawer, that can be dangerous as well, so what you want to do in this situation is get drawer locks. Similarly, if a toddler can open the dishwasher door, she will have access to anything inside the dishwasher--knives, forks, glasses....you get the idea. This problem is easily solved by simply latching the dishwasher.

One of the biggest hazards in the kitchen for a toddler is the oven door. First of all, it can be hot (a baby's skin is much more sensitive than an adults, so what seems warm to an adult can feel very hot to a baby. Not only that, some oven doors can cause the oven to topple over onto a baby, so even if the oven is not hot, it poses a potential danger. However, there's a baby safety product called an oven latch that can keep this from happening.

Another hazard in the kitchen is the floor. Think about it--you can pride yourself on how clean your kitchen floor is, but if you get down on your child's eye level, you may see things that surprise you in the form of crumbs the broom didn't get, a rock that was carried in on a shoe or even a piece of broken glass that you missed when you broke that wine glass last Tuesday. (When you break a glass you seem to find little pieces of it around for months!) In this case, your best baby safety product is your broom or a vacuum specially designed for hard surface floors.

Of course, the kitchen isn't the only room in your house where you'll have to assess baby safety. There's lot to cover when it comes to baby proofing. This page just lists things you might not have thought of yet.

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