Fall prevention
7 articles
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...