Freedom of maneuver
To his first birthday, a little man comes up literally - making his own first steps. Some children master this skill, almost at the age of 8 months, and others begin to walk 2-3 months after they turned a year old. So often happens in premature and weak babies, as well as in fat ones - excess weight creates an additional burden for the still weak musculoskeletal system, so do not overfeed your baby! Later, the first steps are taken by infants who have recently undergone some kind of disease. The disease seems to erase the child's acquired skill, but it is worth the child to get stronger - and he quickly makes up for lost time. In addition, pediatricians noticed that babies, whose teeth are torn with delay, as a rule, do not hurry to move independently. As practice shows, the moment when the crumb suddenly suddenly have several incisors at the same time, significantly weakens the children's body and somewhat delays the development of the walking skill.
How early the baby ripens for the first step depends also on the nature and temperament of the child. Some kids act fearlessly, bravely refusing a hand, prudently extended by Mom. Fall and rise again, continuing their journey. Others walk cautiously, they are always looking for support, they like to be taken by the handle. In the number of the latter often fall kesaryata. Such children need to be encouraged to walk independently, encouraging and encouraging oneself: let the child do at least three steps to the mother, but himself, without support! Do not be afraid that the child will lose his balance and get hurt. Falls from height of own growth to the kid are not terrible. Why is this so? And the growth is still small, and the weight is small enough to make the bruise sensitive. Do not gasp, run to the rescue with a frightened face, pick it up and take it in your hands - this kind of reaction will only frighten the crumb: he decides that something is going on that is alarming, threatening him, and, what good, will return to the infant way of traveling - crawling on the apartment. It is better to eliminate real dangers by adjusting the surrounding space for a walking baby, so that the house does not become a source of his injuries.
Safety regulations
There are things that must necessarily be foreseen when your child begins to walk.
- Divide the apartment into zones
Close the baby by yourself access to the bathroom and toilet (in these rooms it is usually slippery, you can hit hard on the ledge of the bathtub or the edge of the toilet), on the balcony and the kitchen: there are knives, a meat grinder, a steamer, a stove (on which boiling pots sometimes appear) , microwave and other household appliances - on her buttons, crumb will certainly want to press, knobs twist, put their tiny fingers in the holes ... There's absolutely nothing to do! Feed the baby better in the room, but if it is uncomfortable, first prepare and cover, and then bring the crumbs. Immediately after feeding, expel him from the kitchen: let him know that this place is only for eating!
- Dig Out Rosettes
Put them on special stubs (sold in specialized stores) or move chairs, cabinets and sofas, hiding the sources of current behind the furniture. Do not forget about the socket for the hair dryer in the bathroom and those. that happen on washing machines and electric stoves. Here, stubs are not provided, so stop the attempts of an inquisitive child to pick them up with a handle of a spoon or a knife from a doll utensil. The child is very interested in all kinds of slits and small holes, he tries to examine them with his fingers, push something into it - exclude such an opportunity in principle!
- Lock the doors
Make sure that the child does not move them - he does not need to pinch his finger: one of the most frequent and painful injuries at this age! Before opening or closing the door, make sure that there is no baby around. On the doors of lockers, as well as drawers of nightstands and tables, you also need to put a stopper, or, in extreme cases, deploy them with a dangerous side to the wall. Otherwise, a curious child will certainly try to get to the contents of all these opening and pushing things. For a baby, this is by no means an overindulgence, but cognitive activity, which he is supposed to exercise due to age. So do not put it down, but move it in a safe direction: for example, fill some easily opening drawer with objects that can not harm the child. - cubes, toys, ringlets from the pyramid, toy dishes, books made of cardboard. Let all this shift, throw and fold back.
- Hide the cords
First of all it concerns the electric kettle! As practice shows, most burns occur according to the Scheme: the baby tugged at the cord, overturning boiling water or a red-hot iron. Just do not leave these things in the access zone! Take the teapot to the farthest corner of the table, where the child under no circumstances can not reach. Fold the laundry while the baby sleeps or walks with the daddy.
- Remove everything that is dangerous
For example, small details like buttons, beads, carnations (all these objects are easily swallowed, and also thrust into the nose and ears of a young experimenter), piercing, cutting, sharp (scissors, needles, blades), potentially poisonous. The latter implies not only household chemicals, washing powder and nail polish. Do not forget that the prickly cactus or oleander tree, whose leaves cause severe poisoning, is also not the place in the house where the baby is growing!
- Check the pile on the carpet
It should be short-cut and well-fixed, otherwise it will be in the child's mouth, and then in the stomach! Better to lay on the floor in the children's room linen mat, which is easy to scroll in the washing machine. Refuse any dust collectors in the form of soft mats, pillows, plush toys (leave some of your favorite babies, but always wash them 1-2 times a month with baby powder). Do not forget that all these are sources of allergens!
- Free space
The child grows very fast: everything that is no longer his age should be disposed of in the most decisive way! Stumbling over unnecessary arena and long-standing walkers or scattered rattles, you can inadvertently drop the crumbs when you carry it to bed after bathing. And the child himself, constantly bumping into unnecessary objects, will fall more often.
- Drag the corners
Arrange the furniture in such a way that the child does not bump against them, or hug soft material, finally, barricaded with sofa cushions. After the baby has plenty of fun, slide the toy box under the bed so that the child does not run into his ribs.
- Do not throw medicine anywhere!
Check every time you do an "audit" in your own house, do not lie tablets or drops in your bedroom on the bedside table, on the coffee table in the living room? You will not have time to look back, as a crumb will open the bottle and send its contents straight to your mouth. Do not rely on a special cover design, which the adult can not unscrew with difficulty.Passage poisoning is one of the first places among the accidents that happen to the kids at home.Potentially dangerous items should not be available to the baby. vidiruyte house tablecloths. Pulling out of curiosity of its edges, the baby can topple over all that will be on the table. Well, if you only break your favorite vase, much worse if the crumb dropped it on himself, earning a minimum lump.