Health Tip: Bring Baby Back to a Safe Home

(HealthDay News) -- Before you bring baby home from the hospital, make sure the environment is safe.

The womenshealth.gov website offers this checklist before mom and newborn leave the hospital:

• Make sure the crib and other baby items are in good shape (especially if they are secondhand) and have not been involved in a recall.

• Remove any stuffed animals, blankets and pillows from baby's crib.

• Make sure all smoke and carbon monoxide detectors in your home are working.

• Place a list of emergency numbers, including poison control, near each phone.

• Make sure you have a corded landline phone in your home, in case of power failure.

• Make sure the number on your house, apartment or condo is visible, in case emergency works have to find you.

• Make sure there are handrails on all stairs.