If you really want to know why a baby's room is different from all the other rooms in the house, take this simple test: Get down on your hands and knees and take a look around. What you'll see is quite amazing. Suddenly, the room has become a sea of table and chair legs. Electrical outlets are now at eye level. Most of the decorations in the room are too high to really be seen, and just about everything is way out of scale from your new point of view.