On September 6th, I was privileged to be a guest on Childhood Matters, which is a one-hour weekly call-in radio show on 98.1 KISS-FM in the San Francisco Bay area. (To listen to a podcast of that program, visit http://www.childhoodmatters.org.) The subject of that show was preventing accidents at home. During the program, a listener called in to share a scary home incident that happened when her mother was watching her baby. I’ll relay it here.
During her baby’s nap, the baby started crying. Grandma, listening carefully and watching on the baby monitor, saw the baby lying face down in the crib. Thinking her grandson’s crying was a little off, Grandma went to investigate and found the baby with the cord from the baby monitor wrapped around his neck. The monitor was a multi-room model with cameras that attached to the wall. Apparently, the baby had wrestled his crib over to the wall and became entangled in the cord from the camera focused on his crib. Fortunately, Grandma arrived just in time and the baby was fine, aside from a few ligature marks on his neck.
The listener resolved the problem by getting a cord cuff, which covers and adheres cables to the wall and safety expert, Mark Altman of The Childproofer, who was also a guest expert on the show that morning, agreed that that was the right thing to do.
It goes to show you that even though babies are just sleeping in their crib, which they do up to 18 hours per day initially, they can still get themselves into a heck of a lot of trouble. Baby monitors, cell phones, and other high-tech items can add another level of childproofing. If you haven’t cuffed your cords, do it. Here’s just one example of a cord cover: 
Tags: baby monitor, childproofing, cord cover
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