Posted on July 9, 2007 in Children Injuries
Children falling down from beds, staircases or from an elevation are bound to get injured. Sometimes such injuries can cause permanent disability and defect. The head injuries particularly are very perilous and can damage the brain. So prevent your babies from falling and give them safe training to move, run, play and climb up and down.
Help your baby
As a primary parenting concern, you will have to take the utmost care to help your baby to make the first move. That starts from taking turns on bed followed by crawling and the first walk holding your finger. For every mom and dad under the sun, these experiences are most touchy and memorable forever.
Every moment of movement is sensitive at the initial stage. You need to guide your child carefully so that he/she doesn’t fall.
Restrictions in climbing
- Baby beds should always have steel-framed or wrought iron protective guards from all sides. When the baby learns to crawl and get up, adjust the height of the guards. By any chance the baby should not be prone to fall from it.
- Little children always try to climb up windows and the staircases. Keep the widows free from any furniture placed in alignment with them. The children will automatically get no provision to climb up holding the support of something.
- Safety gates on the way to staircase must be kept under locks so that the kids cannot move up.
Baby walkers
Most parents buy baby walkers to help their baby get inside it and learn to move alone. How much is this helpful? Check it out yourself.
- Prams are good to carry and move your child from one location to another when they are not yet capable of walking alone but the baby walkers are not.
- Prams are not moved by the children themselves. Someone has to drag or push it for movement. One precautionary measure has to be taken. The safety trap must hold the baby within it. So that even jerks won’t let the baby fall down.
- Baby walkers run on wheels and children don’t get proper balance on them. Apparently you enjoy watching them dragging it from one end to another. But any moment they can fall if there is slight up and down in the moving area. By any chance if they sit on the baby walker and pull it near the staircase and that happens in your ignorance, an accident is obvious.
Support in walk
- Lend your fingers and hold the babies when they learn to move their legs left and right.
- Provide them with vacant walls and plane walking surface without any barrier or obstacle. The child will take the support of the wall and learn to walk.
- Guard him from behind and take quick action when they are about to fall down.
You will have to show this carefulness as guardians. Shoulder this responsibility with full sincerity because it concerns your child’s life. A small mistake can become a lifelong pang. Who knows?
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August 27th, 2007 at 8:09 am
My 1yr and 4 month old daughter was riding piggyback on her elder sister’s back last night when she suddenly slipped and fell face down on the right side of her face.Her mum checked to see if there was any swelling but there was none. The baby slept shortly after that. We haven’t noticed any swelling by this morning but we are curious to know if there is anything to fear and how to deal with such a situation.