Are Legos a choking hazard?

[MommyJogger]

For babies? I've never used them myself and DH doesn't believe in choking hazards . Would I have to be super stringent about keeping the lego/duplo pieces out of DS2's reach?

 

[MiniKiwi]

Hm yeah, I'd keep them well away from a small baby. There are lots of small round parts. Unless you're talking about toddler lego/duplo? But the older kids lego wouldn't be a good idea imo

 

[FAB mama]

Duplo is fine for babies, but you might even want to watch the little flower pieces. To me they are still pretty small.

I wouldn't let a baby be around regular Legos.

 

[minties]

It's just lego, sorry but that always bugs me, I run an online lego store!

How old is baby? Mine both have regular Lego but have grown up around it as we have 30,000+ pieces. They've learnt from 18 months each how to respect it and never put in their mouths.

 

[hayz_baby]

Right now ds2 puts everything in his mouth. Ds1 was brought a set of Lego which he loves but yes I do keep it away from ds2 for that reason as I know he will be constantly trying to put it in his mouth.

 

[MommyJogger]

Baby is 5 weeks, but I'm thinking more about the 6-18 mo range when everything gets mouthed. There are toddler sets? Do they also work with the big kid set or will they be useless in a few years? Their guideparent wants to take the 2 yo to fill a bucket with pieces from those self-serve dispensers, so if just certain pieces are dangerous, they can be avoided.

 

[Tigerlilyb]

Duplo is the baby stuff and IMO it's perfectly safe. As PP said maybe the flowers are too small but it depends how mouthy your kid is (no reason why you can't just put the flowers elsewhere). Lego is compatible with it so you can just add to your collection as your kiddies get older

Duplo is also a bit easier on tiny hands, I'm not sure my DD would've had the strength and coordination to pull apart lego pieces when she first started playing with it, she still occasionally has trouble with particularly well put together duplo. It's her favourite thing to play with so well worth every penny.

 

[MommyJogger]

I had no idea they were different things! I thought duplo was the British name for the lego brand, lol! I guess that'll teach me to not assume everything I read on here is a British-ism if I've never heard of it! Thank you! I think we'll ask him to bump it down to Duplo pieces if he can find a self-serve bin for them. He doesn't have kids and I'm pretty sure he just wants an excuse to go to the "lego that looks like a candy store" dispensary without looking like a crazy.

 

[jd83]

As others have said, the Duplo are better for babies/young toddlers. I think they make them aged 1-5 for Duplo, or something like that? But they are all bigger pieces mainly, with a few smaller that you may want to take out until the baby is bigger. Definitely no on the regular Lego though. Those can some really tiny parts I'd be way too worried about.

 

[RachA]

We have both Duplo and Lego. When DD was younger she was kept away from the Lego pieces.

What i love about the sets it that they are actually interchangeable. My DH who is 7 plays with the Duplo as much as he does with the Lego. If he is on his own he will use the Duplo and Lego together as the pieces are designed to fit together. So imo Duplo doesn't become too young for them.

 

[Midnight_Fairy]

We have lots of lego and Jade knows not to touch now but always watch her x

 

[tommyg]

I wouldn't have Lego anywhere near a baby. Duplo will be fine but not Lego. The pick a brick at the lego shops is normally just Lego not Duplo.

If you think of a standard 2x4 Lego brick a Duplo brick is double the length, double the width and double the height. Normally Duplo is sold in buckets or boxes.

 

[Mummy to be x]

I've just been looking at Lego for my three year old for Christmas but I decided to go with the duplo for safety reasons, we just bought a bigger box I think it's a 400 piece set so that will be fine for her for the next year or two.