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Toy safety

Toy safety involves choosing, inspecting, cleaning, and using toys in ways that reduce injury and ingestion hazards for babies.

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Safe toys for babies

Safe toys for babies

Why toy safety changes so quickly in infancy Babies do not use toys in the way adults expect. A newborn may briefly track a high-contrast object, while an older infant may grasp, shake, bang, throw, pull, crawl toward, and mouth the same object. Oral exploration is developmentally normal, but it means every accessible surface and […]