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Some Baby/Child Tips
- Always keep a fire extinguisher handy, and change your smoke alarm battery 2 times per year.
- Keep small objects and toys with small parts away from children under 3. Check the label on toy packages for the age appropriateness before giving them to your child.
- Never cook with a child playing under your feet. Make sure you use the back burners whenever possible and turn the pot handles in towards the center of the stove so your toddler cannot reach up and grab them.
- Don't place furniture near open windows for children to climb on, and place window locks or guards on windows to help prevent children from falling through.
- Retract all window blind cords throughout the house, as they are a strangulation hazard.
- Common choking sources include latex balloons, peanuts, hot dogs, popcorn, and grapes.
- no pillows or soft stuff in crib
- put baby to sleep on back
- crib can test (if you can put a soda can through the slats it's too wide)
- collapsible play pens can collapse on baby, get the hard to put together kind
- outlet covers that slide so you can use them but baby can't
- mounted baby gates (not the kind you can take down)
- mount top heavey dressers or bookshelves to wall
- put wires and cords in a cord cover
- door stoppers - baby can choke on the rubber ends, get the one piece kind.
RECALLED ITEMS DISCUSSED ON THE OPRAH SHOW
Bean Bag Chairs with freely opening zippers
Black and Decker Spacemaker Optima
Under-the-Cabinet Toasters, Model T-1000 Type 1
Electrolux Ponytail Top-Corded Upright Vacuum
Evenflo On My Way Infant Car Seats/Carriers, Models 207 and 492
Fisher Price Power Wheel
Glade Gel Candles
Graco Baby Swings, Models 1300, 1301, 1310, 1350, 1501, 1502, 1530,
1723, 2788, 5510, 8108 and
36264
manufactured between August 1, 1993, and August 31, 1997
Halogen Torchiere Lamps. (Free guards can be obtained by calling Halogen at 800-985-2220.)
Juice Giant Juicer made by Singer
Mini-hammocks Without Spreader Bars
Omega Fire Sprinklers
Playskool 1-2-3 High Chair
Portable Playpens With Collapsing Rails
Rubbermaid Purple Icy Rider Toboggan, Model 2108
Toy Basketball Nets by Ohio Art, Little Tikes, Today's Kids and Fisher-Price
Wooden Bunk Beds with supports more than 3.5 inches above the mattress
or slats more than
3.5 inches apart from each other
LINKS
The Consumer Products Safety Commission web site has extensive information
on recalled products
going back to 1994. To access this information, please point your web
browser to
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
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