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Toddlers: 12 - 24 Months
making DD's room "safe" for her/"Anchoring" furniture
Did you anchor furniture to the wall, leave it be, or remove it?
When we put DD's room together before she was born I obviously didn't worry about toddler-proofing it. One of the things I remember reading about in my baby books was to anchor large pieces of furniture to the wall. We have plaster walls which are THE WORST when it comes to drilling into. They chip and crack like you wouldn't believe when we put holes in previously (for hanging curtain rods, picture frames, etc) and I've gotten to the point where I just use those 3M sticky things for putting pictures on the walls now instead of drilling.
With that being said there is really only one piece of furniture in her room that I'd actually think is capable of tipping if she tried climbing it. As I'm starting to think about replacing DD's crib with a toddler bed I am trying to think of how to toddler proof it when she's in there with the door shut. I just worry that she'd wake up in the morning, I wouldn't hear her, and then we'd hear a big boom and she'd be under the mini-bookshelf. We could just take it out of her room but it's a shelving unit that the top two shelves we put things like her diaper wipes, thermometer, etc. So it'd be convenient if we didn't have to remove it, but obviously I'd chose to keep her safe over convenience.
Is anchoring furniture something you did or is it one of those crazily overprotective things that you read about and "should" do but might not actually do it?
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Re: making DD's room "safe" for her/"Anchoring" furniture
It is very important to me and something I really want to do. I was so excited when we moved to make a room safe for DS, and securing the furniture to the wall was an important part of that. Unfortunately we didn't realize that we were moving to a place that has no stores which carry furniture straps. Lowes, Walmart and Home depot all have nothing, and the nearest babies r us is an hour away. We'll be ordering them once we get a p.o box set up.
If it gives you peace of mind and lets you relax when your DD is playing, I think its worth it.
DD has a small dollhouse bookshelf and a dresser/hutch in her room... they are anchored to the wall (they have been since we got them). I have worked with a little girl who climbed her parents dresser and ended up tipping it.... they had a tv on it and it fell on her head. She was in the hospital for quite a long time and required speech/language and special education services afterwards. If they had anchored their furniture, it wouldn't have happened.
Our tv is anchored to the wall as well. There are so many things I can't protect DD from, so I will work hard to protect her from what I can!
That makes me feel good to hear that it wasn't just an overprotective thing that I could overlook. But that it's a reasonable and expected thing I should do. I almost feel foolish having asked the question in the first place now!
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