Babyproofing chest of draws

[liamsdaddy]

Our DS, 16.5 mo is starting to get near the point that we might want to put him in his own bed (trying to climb out of cot, etc).

At the moment he doesn't spend time in his room, as we bring him downstairs to play after getting him up.

The one issue with a bed is that he would have free reign of his room and he has a tendency to unpack anything and everything.

We have one of these in his room containing most of his clothes:www.homebase.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=20001&partNumber=6436001&c_3=3|cat_14418001|Chests+of+drawers|14418002&c_2=2|cat_16849245|Bedroom+furniture|14418001&c_1=1|category_root|Furniture+and+Homewares|16849245.

Does anyone have any thoughts on how to secure the majority of the draws? (leave him one or two to open I think) Most the draw locks I've found rely on having a good mount point which would be the case for the top draws but not for any lower ones.

I would probably go with a fridge type lock - we have a velcro type that you stick the flat, straight bit on the side of the fridge, then the velcro wraps round onto the opening side of the front to secure it shut.

You would need several though.

If you wanted to secure the actual chest to the wall that would stop it tipping over if he did start to climb. I use a plastic carry handle from one of those giant boxes big toys come in, with a screw through one end to the piece of furniture and the other end onto a nearby doorframe or such.

OR you could get a flexible playpen type gate-thing and use it as a fence across one section of his room, instead. You could cordon off various things using one of those.

BabyDan make a good one but there are others I think.

My son has a chest of drawers in his room and he was forever going in them and pulling stuff out. I didn't want him to jam his fingers so I simply turned the chest of drawers around. Not very practical, I know

my parents put garden canes through all the handles to stop me when i was small. So if you pulled one drawer they would all open if you see what i mean, but i wasn't strong enough to pull them all open at once.

I just tied a piece of string through all the door handles. He wasn't strong enough to open all the drawers and he got bored of trying after a bit

I just let dd do it, I did with ds too...I found the novelty for them wore off very very quickly once they realised there was no great mystery in the drawers

Same as nelix here. We made sure there was nothing dangerous in the drawers and let DS empty them as and when he wanted. After a while he started putting things back in again (!) and after a couple of months he got bored and completely ignored the drawers. Same with bookshelves etc.