First Steps Safe Steps - Baby Proofing Service

First Steps Safe Steps - Baby Proofing Service Sydney's first baby proofing service that provides a personalised home consultation and offers on the spot product installation.

Sydney's first baby proofing service that provides a personalised baby safe solution. We will help you design a safe solution before any accidents happen

Most parents are left to “figure out” baby safety on their own, and that’s where so many preventable accidents happen.Wh...
18/08/2026

Most parents are left to “figure out” baby safety on their own, and that’s where so many preventable accidents happen.

When Mitch first started in this space, he met a family who’d lost their child in a house fire caused by a stove k**b being turned.

A few distracted seconds.
A life changed forever.
That story shaped everything we do.

With 75% of childhood accidents happening inside the home, parents deserve clearer guidance, not mixed advice or unsafe products.

Since 2014, we’ve assessed 7,000+ homes and raised four kids of our own, including twins who get into everything.

What we’ve learned is simple:

Small changes make a big difference, and safety needs to evolve as your child grows.

If you want practical, calm, evidence backed baby safety tips…

follow along.

Finding a new hazard does not mean you failed to baby proof properly. It usually means your child developed a new skill....
16/08/2026

Finding a new hazard does not mean you failed to baby proof properly.

It usually means your child developed a new skill.

The setup that worked for a crawler may no longer suit a child who can stand, climb or move furniture.

Use each milestone as a reminder to review your home.

When they begin crawling
Don't focus only on obvious floor hazards.
Check handbags, pet bowls, small objects, low cords and anything beneath furniture.

When they begin standing
Don't assume the back half of a table is out of reach. Children can stretch, pull tablecloths and use nearby objects to gain height.

When they begin cruising
Check the entire route around couches, tables and cabinets. Remove anything hot, sharp or small enough to swallow.

When they begin climbing
Don't rely on placing dangerous items one shelf higher. Anchor furniture and remove chairs or boxes that create access to higher surfaces.

Baby proofing is not one enormous job completed once. It is a quick reset whenever your child unlocks a new ability.

Comment STAGES and we'll send you the milestone home safety checklist. 🤍

Blind cord risks are scary because things can go wrong very quickly and very quietly. The good news? One of the biggest ...
11/08/2026

Blind cord risks are scary because things can go wrong very quickly and very quietly.

The good news?

One of the biggest safety changes you can make is completely free.

Move cots, beds, couches, change tables and playpens away from any window with a hanging cord.

And don’t wait until your little one can climb.

Kids learn new skills ridiculously fast, and furniture near a window can give them access to a cord sooner than you’d expect.

A few other things to check:
• Don’t tie a cord into a loose knot. It can still leave a dangerous loop.
• Don’t drape it over a window latch. It can easily fall back down or stay within reach.
• Use a suitable cleat or tensioning device, installed high on the wall, and keep the cord secured tightly.

Start with:
The nursery
The lounge room
Bedrooms Play areas
Anywhere there’s a highchair, playpen or couch near a window

Comment **CORDS** and we’ll send you our blind and curtain cord safety checklist. 🤍

Baby proofing can feel like another enormous job sitting on an already enormous parenting list.It is easy to think you n...
08/08/2026

Baby proofing can feel like another enormous job sitting on an already enormous parenting list.

It is easy to think you need to buy every safety product in Bunnings and somehow predict every strange decision your toddler will make for the next three years.

You don't. Most homes become safer through small, practical changes.

Move the medicine.
Turn the pot handle.
Anchor the drawers.
Secure the blind cord.

Start with the room where your child spends the most time.

Get down to their height and ask:
- What can they reach? What can they climb?
- What can they pull down?
- What can they open?
- What can they put in their mouth?

Don't aim to finish the entire house today.

Choose one room and fix the first three things you notice. That is a proper first step.

Comment SAFE and we'll send you the First Steps home safety checklist. 🤍

Nobody wants to hear that their cup of tea is a hazard. But here we are.When we picture a kitchen burn we picture the st...
04/08/2026

Nobody wants to hear that their cup of tea is a hazard. But here we are.

When we picture a kitchen burn we picture the stove, a flame, a big dramatic moment.

The truth is far more ordinary. It is a warm drink, on a bench edge or the arm of the lounge, and one small curious arm.

Hot drinks are one of the most common causes of serious burns in little Aussie kids.

And a cuppa does not cool as fast as you'd hope. It can still cause a nasty scald a good fifteen minutes after you poured it.

This isn't about being careless.

A hot drink simply doesn't feel dangerous.
There is no flame to respect.
Thats how parents can miss the risk

So a few small habits make a huge difference

🔸Mugs go to the middle of the bench, not the edge.
🔸You don't hold a hot drink and a baby at once, no matter how good you think your reflexes are.
🔸The kettle cord stays short and clipped back.
🔸And no hot drinks travelling over a little one's head. Small changes.

The kind that means you never find out how fast it happens.

Comment SAFE and we'll send you our home safety scorecard

Here is something that catches every parent by surprise.The baby proofing you did when they started crawling is already ...
30/07/2026

Here is something that catches every parent by surprise.

The baby proofing you did when they started crawling is already out of date.

Not because you got it wrong. Because they changed.

At six months the whole world is on the floor.

By a year it's the coffee table.

By eighteen months it's the kitchen bench they just figured out how to scale like a tiny mountaineer.

Your setup was right for the baby you had then. It just needs a look now, for the one you've got today.

The good news is you almost never have to start from scratch.

You usually just need to know the two or three things that have shifted since last time.

That's the whole point of our home safety scorecard.

Two minutes, no guilt, no giant shopping list.

It tells you where your home sits right now and what your next job is.

Comment SCORE and we'll send you the link, or you'll find it in our bio.

Your toddler does not see a chest of drawers. They see a ladder with built in steps, and they are a fearless little moun...
28/07/2026

Your toddler does not see a chest of drawers.

They see a ladder with built in steps, and they are a fearless little mountaineer.

Here is how it goes wrong, fast.

They pull open the bottom drawer, use it as a step, reach for the next one, and their weight tips the whole thing forward.

It takes seconds and it makes no sound until it lands.

The big one is the telly. A flat screen sitting on an unanchored lowboy or drawers comes down with almost no warning, and it is heavy.

Toppling furniture and televisions send Australian kids to hospital every week, and it is mostly little ones under three, mostly from climbing.

None of this is careless parenting.

Nothing in your lounge room looks unstable, right up until a determined toddler turns it into a climbing frame.

The fix is boring and brilliant.

Anchor anything they can climb or pull to the wall with proper anti-tip straps or brackets.

It is cheap, it is quick, and you do it once.

One thing worth knowing. Not all straps are equal, and a lot of marketplace furniture was never made to be anchored safely.

We fit anchors rated for the piece and tested to a real standard, so it actually holds.

Comment SAFE and we'll send you our home safety checklist.

After making over 2000 Sydney homes safer, you start to see the same three things everywhere. MmNot the obvious stuff. A...
23/07/2026

After making over 2000 Sydney homes safer, you start to see the same three things everywhere. Mm

Not the obvious stuff.

Almost everyone has done the stair gate and the powerpoint covers.

It's the quiet three that hide in plain sight.

Furniture that isn't anchored, so the drawers and the bookshelf and the telly become a climbing frame that can topple.

The cupboard that's up high but not latched, which is no barrier at all to a determined little climber.

And the visitor blind spot, where your home is beautifully sorted until a handbag lands on the floor.

The trick isn't doing everything. It's knowing which of these actually applies to your home, right now.

That's the whole job of our home safety scorecard.

Two minutes, completely free, and it hands you your top few jobs for the home and the child you've actually got.

No guilt. No giant list.

Comment SCORE and we'll send you the link, or grab it from our bio.

Choking is the one that scares every parent, and it's also the one where a few small habits make an enormous difference....
17/07/2026

Choking is the one that scares every parent, and it's also the one where a few small habits make an enormous difference.

The theme across all of these is shape. Round, firm and roughly windpipe sized is the dangerous combination.

Change the shape and you change the risk. A few extra rules worth knowing:

• Always sit them down to eat, never in the car or the pram, never lying back.

• Movement plus food is where a lot of incidents happen.

• Stay within arm's reach for the whole meal while they're little.

• Learn infant and child first aid. A CPR and choking course through a provider like St John or the Red Cross is a few hours that changes everything.

You don't need to ban food or panic at every meal.

You need the cutting technique and know that the food journey is a fun one for your little one.

Save this and tag a parent starting solids.

Walk the nursery aisle and half of what's for sale is about making a cot feel cosier. Safe sleep is the opposite. Barer ...
16/07/2026

Walk the nursery aisle and half of what's for sale is about making a cot feel cosier.

Safe sleep is the opposite.
Barer is safer.

The hardest part is that a lot of these products are gifts, or things we bought with the best intentions before we knew.

That's not a failure.

The guidance genuinely changed, and it's worth catching up on.

What safe sleep actually looks like: baby on their back, on a firm flat mattress, in a bare cot, in a safe sleeping bag instead of loose blankets, feet to the foot of the cot.

Everything else is optional, and most of it is safest left out.

Save this for the setup, and send it to anyone buying for a new baby.

Save this for the setup, and send it to anyone buying for a new baby.

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