Take Good Care of Your Baby - What Everyone Can Do

This booklet give parents and caregivers tips on how to avoid some of the most common and dangerous child and infant-related injuries, including window falls, drowning, shaken baby syndrome, and unintended poisonings in the home.

Child Safety Booklet: What Everyone Can Do

Contents

1. Never shake your baby
2. Never leave your baby alone
3. It’s safest for baby to sleep alone
4. Childproof your home
5. Protect against lead poisoning
6. Be the best parent you can be
7. Choose your caregiver carefully: Think twice, then think again

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Window Guards Save Lives

Each year, young children are injured or die in falls from windows. Even a fall from a first-floor window can kill a child. Window falls can happen in a second, but window guards can prevent them. And the law requires them.

The NYC Health Code requires owners of buildings of three or more apartments to provide and properly install window guards on all windows in an apartment where children 10-years-old or younger live and in each hallway window.

If your landlord refuses to install window guards or they aren’t properly installed, call 311.

Learn how to request window guards and how to get help getting them installed.

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