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A fellow FHM member with an older son and twin boys just posted about her twins crawling around the house. My first thought was, time to baby proof the house!
With our older son, we didn’t baby proof a thing, aside from bolting shelves to the walls. (Okay, so we took the basic precautions one should take when a child enters your household.) But with our twin boys we bolted EVERYTHING to the walls! AND latched most drawers, cabinets, and doors. AND had a baby proofing professional come to our house to tell us exactly what he recommended should be done in order to make our home safe for our boys. It came as a bit of a shock to us that we would have to childproof so much with our twins. But once you become outnumbered, in our case 3 to 2, or 3 to 1 while my husband was at work, it was a necessity. I’m absolutely sure we avoided many ER trips due to our diligence and child locks.
There are baby proofing companies out there, like the one that came to our house, that will do it all for you, but we opted to do it ourselves for much less. However, I know I would have appreciated having everything done completely and not adding to our “proofing” as needed, which was our case. So, my recommendation is: Call a baby proofing expert and have them do it all for you. That’s just my two cents after living through it and wishing it had all been done early on from the get-go.
(By the way, my husband just took a bunch of drawer latches off this past weekend-Woo hoo! After four years of those things on, we’re finally rid of most of them. We still have a child safety lock on our front door, and bedroom door since the twins get in and out of everything. At four and a half years old, they still very much keep us alert and on our toes.)
What are your recommendations for baby/child/twin/multiple proofing, and at what age were your children when you did, if at all?
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