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Why a Child Should Never Be Left Unattended on Furniture

A common injury scenario involves a baby left unattended on a bed, couch, or changing table for just a moment—and that moment is when they fall or rol...

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Sharp Corners and Hard Edges: What to Pad and What to Leave

The first time you watch a new walker stagger across the living room and hit their face on the coffee table, the urge is to bubble-wrap the entire hou...

8 min read

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Slips and Falls at Home: Where Toddlers Actually Get Hurt

A toddler falls dozens of times a day. Most of those falls are part of learning, bounce off a nappy and end in a giggle. The dangerous ones — the fall...

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Floor Hazards: Rugs That Slide, Cords That Trip, Tiles That Hurt

A surprising amount of household injury in mobile babies and toddlers comes from a small number of mundane floor problems. Rugs that ride up. Charger...

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Reducing Fall Risk Once a Baby Starts Moving

A crawling baby is going to fall, and a baby who's just starting to pull up will fall harder. That's not a failure of supervision — that's the develop...

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How Children Fall — and What Changes Each Age

The fall a 3-month-old takes is fundamentally different from the fall a 2-year-old takes. The mechanism, the height, what they hit, and what's likely...

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Beds, Sofas, and Where Babies Should Actually Sleep

This is one of the questions that comes up at every newborn appointment: where can the baby actually sleep? The internet says the cot. The grandparent...

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