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6 Top Tips for Creating a Baby-Friendly Home

December 9, 2020 by dadofdivas Leave a Comment

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If you’re expecting a baby in the next nine months (or less), you’ll more than likely want every inch of your property to suit their needs.

In addition to creating a beautiful nursery, you must ensure your home is warm, safe and spacious to support their health, security, and first steps.

To feel 100% prepared for your son or daughter’s arrival, read these six top tips for creating a baby-friendly home.

  1. Cover Electrical Outlets

Once your baby starts crawling, cruising, or walking, you can guarantee they will want to explore every item on the floor, walls, and furniture. To ensure they are safe when they move across your home, you can cover your electrical outlets with a plastic outlet cover. Research to find out what the most suitable method is for your type of electic outlet.

  1. Add Corner Guards

Children are prone to falling forwards and backward when they are first finding their feet, and they’ll lack spatial awareness when moving from A to B. To prevent unwanted injuries, you can cover all sharp edges with corner guards. For example, you could add them onto the corners of tables, baseboards or low shelving, which will provide peace of mind that they will be safe when falling in the home.

  1. Install Efficient Radiators

Faulty or broken radiators will fail to increase your home’s temperature on a cold night. Ensure your little bundle of joy is safe and warm every day of the week by installing efficient radiators before their arrival. There are also many beautiful designs available at warmrooms.co.uk that can complement the size of a room and its interior. For example, vertical column radiators are an ideal choice if you have minimal wall space.

  1. Move Medicines and Cleaning Supplies

As mentioned, babies and toddlers are inquisitive, so you can guarantee they will want to explore every cupboard when an opportunity arises. Keep them safe within the home by moving all medicines and cleaning supplies from lower kitchen cabinets or shelving. Store them in a higher cabinet and install a child-lock for extra peace of mind.

  1. Remove Poisonous Plants

Children will be happy to put every object into their mouths once they have improved their fine and gross motor skills. While you might think your beautiful plants are harmless, you might be surprised to learn that some varieties are poisonous when consumed, such as devil’s ivy, English ivy, and poinsettia. You should, therefore, remove them from your home (or place well out of reach) before your little one starts rolling and crawling.

  1. Stabilize furniture

As a growing baby will want to explore different colors, textures, and movements, they’ll want to browse the many items sitting on a bookshelf. To ensure it never topples over, you must stabilize it and anchor any heavy furniture against the wall. You can also add baby-friendly products onto lower shelving, such as:

  • Board books
  • Soft toys
  • Various textured fabrics
  • Stacking cups

Don’t forget to remove breakable items from the bookshelf, such as vases, candles and sculptures.

Before your baby arrives in the world, take a walk around your home to identify potential safety issues, such as a faulty water heater, choking hazards or unsecured mirrors or furniture. It’s much easier to get all this sorted without a baby than waiting until they arrive.

Filed Under: fatherhood Tagged With: babies, baby, dad, dads, father, fatherhood

The Fun Never Stops: How to Host a Great Baby Shower

March 15, 2018 by dadofdivas Leave a Comment

The Fun Never Stops: How to Host a Great Baby Shower

Baby showers are there to celebrate the birth of a new baby, but it’s a mistake to think you absolutely must follow tradition. Baby showers don’t have to be only women, and they don’t have to just be for expecting mothers either. As every single dad can attest, it can be nice to be appreciated a little too. That’s why when it comes to baby showers, there are no rules. Everything can go, all that matters is that the guest of honor (or guests!) are happy and that their closest friends and family are there to celebrate with them.

 

Choosing the Venue

The venue does not have to be a big deal. If you want your budget to go further, you can host the baby shower at your home, or you can find a nice restaurant which has a secluded area you can reserve. If you do choose a restaurant, the food and drinks are all set, but hosting at home doesn’t have to be a big deal either. You can self-cater the party by ordering food from a restaurant. Companies like Uber Eats will deliver to your door even if the restaurant doesn’t have a delivery service.

 

Decorations

Decorations are always fun, but they don’t have to be the focus. Have a few balloons, streamers, and other simple decorations to make it fun, but you don’t need to go overboard if your budget doesn’t allow it. Good food and good company are all that you need!

 

Planning Activities

Fun games are always hilarious at a themed party such as a baby shower, and there are so many to choose from as well. You can download fun printable baby shower games to help you get started or make your own. You can bake together, or you can go for a walk afterward through a garden, or anything. There are no hard rules for a baby shower – just try to stick to non-alcoholic drinks in solidarity with the mother-to-be!

 

Tip: A great keepsake is if you create a time capsule for your baby once he or she grows up. Have everyone write down wishes for the baby and keep them safe until the time comes.

 

The Best Gifts to Give

The best gifts are those that look great and also offer function. While baby clothes are adorable, for instance, the chances are that the baby will grow out of them before the new parents can blink. That’s why organizing or using a registry can be useful, so that the expecting parents can get things they need, like diapers or a carry-bag. If you coordinate with everyone, you can be sure to give the expecting parents things they don’t have but desperately need.

 

Baby showers can be as much fun as you want them to be. Invite your closest friends and family no matter who they are, and celebrate the new life that is about to be entering your lives with these top tips.

Filed Under: fatherhood Tagged With: babies, baby, baby shower, father, fatherhood

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