infant safety
Home Safety for Infants Infant safety education is needed for all new mother’s not just first time mothers, new safety concerns may have been discovered since the last child was born. A person’s home is meant to be a safe place for the family. Unfortunately every room in a home has potential danger. With some thought and a little money a home can be child proofed in a few days. The subject of this interview is a 22-year-old white female. She lives in Buckeye Arizona with her husband who is also white and 25-years-old. Samantha has been married to Bladen for two years and their daughter is almost 7-months-old. Samantha studied Judicial Reporting at Mid-State College in Peoria Illinois and has worked in this field for over three years. Bladen has worked for a printing company since he graduated high school and is doing well at it. I explained to Samantha that home safety would be the topic we would cover. She was glad to be talking about this since Cora is just about to start crawling. Samantha stated that she and Bladen were just talking about child proofing the other day. I explained that Cora’s danger area on the floor right now is as far as she can move. Before Cora starts to crawl she and Bladen need to get down on the floor and see what she can see and that will be her danger area for a time. As she starts walking they again need to get down on Cora’s level again to see what she sees. Every time Cora move onto a new stage of development, child proofing may need to be done again. We started talking about window blinds. Samantha stated she has them on every window in her home. I explained that older blinds have cords that hang with a loop. This loop is a potential for strangulation for infants. She was glad hers did not have any blinds with hanging loops. I also told her to be careful of the blinds that have four to six cords dangling. They can get tangled and be a threat when the blinds are raised since then the cords get