HELP!!! I NEED baby proofing ideas!!!

[antkim]

I'm really in for it with Mattie!!(9 months) He is into EVERYTHING and has figured out how to climb onto chairs, coffee table, UP HIS GATES and now he just started literally HANGING like a monkey off my oven handle!!! He even figured out how to open the draw under the oven so that he could stand on that and get higher!! The door hasn't opend YET when he does this but I'm afraid it will-is there any type of device for ovens? I can't gate the kitchen off as it is open to my family room unless I can find a REALLY wide gate somewhere....HELP!!!

Kim

 

[Serena]

Oh my! I surely don't miss this part of being a parent. There are babyproofing equipment out there to buy. It helps, until they figure that out. But it will give you a little time to figure out something else.

Make sure anything remotely poisonous is on a very high locked cabinet.
Could you give him an "allowed" cabinet to get into? Sometimes that helps the curiousity for the other things. You could put a surprise in there every so often.

As for the rest, you just have to have eyes in the back of your head and be aware of him at every second. It's really hard I know.

 

[Beth76]

I can only offer you this: you have a very intelligent boy! My son (now 3) was the same way. He undid every baby proofing thing that we had. And it didn't take him very long to figure it out either. Corner cusions, outlet covers, cabinet/drawer locks--you name it, he figured it out. They were like puzzles to him. We were able to keep him out of kitchen though. So, he was pretty much contained in the living room during his "explorer" times. I you find something that works.

 

[antkim]

I let him into the cabinet with the pots but it's the climbing that really is interesting to him now!! I'm going to take a picture of him the next time he is swinging from the oven just so you can all see it!! LOL He's a little terror and at 9 months!!! I was just on onestepahead.com and they have an extra long gate that I might have to buy-I just know he is not going to be happy with me on the other side of that gate!! Better safe than sorry!

Kim

 

[mommytutu]

For the kitchen just make sure you have those child locks on every door. I do have one low cabinet that I keep plastic bowls and cups and such in so I don't mind if the kids get into that. For the oven I had used an oven lock, but after the oven heated up so many times it quit sticking. Our old house had a pocket door that went into the kitchen and I had to buy a latch lock to keep ds out. This house has a wide open kitchen. Door locks and latches are the way to go. My DH hates installing them, but too bad.

 

[Betsyt82]

Hi. Good luck!! The only one that I can offer is my way of foiling our son from the kitchen/dinning table and chairs. I went and purchased bungie cords and bungies the chair legs together so he could not pull the chairs out and get on the table or drag the chairs to the counters. I really worked for quite a while. But I also gave him the full use of the tupperware cupboard....it did help in keeping him out of the rest of the kitchen.