When regular safety latches don’t cut it

If your baby is anything like mine were, they are extremely determined!

Both my children were very curious and had to touch and get into absolutely everything in sight.

The standard child safety mechanisms did not work at all. My son figured out the fridge safety lock before I could even put it on.

In this case, it’s time to get creative.

I remember my grandma putting wooden spoons through door handles to keep us out of the pantry. It worked too!

In my old home, the stairs doing down to the landing were at an angle which made it impossible to put up a baby gate. I had to lay a chair on its side to keep my son from falling down while he was in the crawling stage.

When my daughter was learning that she could climb on chairs to reach high items, we had to tie the chairs to the table with a rope. With a rope!

While wooden spoons stuck through cupboard doors and chairs laying on their side and ropes tied around the kitchen table are not exactly “designer” and attract weird looks from visitors, they work!

Don’t forget that these stages pass quickly and you’ll soon be looking for even more child-proof ways to keep your house from being destroyed or protecting your baby from injury.

Babies have a magical ability to move at lightning speed while you have your back turned, and contrary to popular belief, we don’t actually have eyes in the back of our heads.

You’ll also have to accept that you need to keep your eyes on baby at all times. Running to the bathroom for a quick tinkle was out of the question for me. I had to take my babies in there with me every time.

Now I can’t keep them out of the bathroom even though I beg them to give me some privacy, but I do remember those days of bathrooms full of babies fondly.

Even though you might be going insane trying to keep your own baby out of everything, don’t forget to savour those precious moments of their childhood because they don’t last long.

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