Parenting Tips for Your 10 Month Old Baby
About 80 percent of accidental poisonings that involve children occur when they are between 10 and 30 months of age. The poisons swallowed are usually household items such as detergents, cosmetics, and vitamin pills. Check your house again to be sure it’s safe.
- Check cupboards and drawers that your baby can now reach. Take out all sharp objects, breakables, household products that might poison your baby, plastic bags, and nuts, popcorn, and other foods that might cause choking.
- Set the hot water temperature at 120 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Keep coffee, hot foods, and hot pots and pans out of reach.
- Don't use a dangling tablecloth that can be pulled onto the floor.
- Keep household products and medicines that might poison your baby in a locked cabinet.
- Be especially careful when guests stay overnight or when someone in your family is sick. Medicines are likely to be out of their usual safe place. Your baby may want to do what he sees someone else doing and eat or drink the medicine.
- Keep medicines away from household products and household products away from food. This way your baby will not make a mistake of taking a medicine thinking that it is food.
- Tie a knot in plastic bags. Throw plastic wrappings away before your baby can get to them. A child can smother or suffocate in just one minute inside an airtight plastic wrapping.
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