quickly! to pop to shop when baby sleeping?

[Scheherezade]

Shop is approx 200-300 yards from my house. I have to cross a road and that's it.

Baby is 4m, asleep in cot, not under a blanket so no suffocation risk....

Shop know I have a baby, am scared they'll judge me as bad mum!

Am I tge only one tgat really wants to know what the op needs from tge shop?

I think it was milk

I would do this and have done this....

I make sure I have ID with me, and have in the past phoned my mobile from the landline and left the landline in the children's room....round trip took me 2.5 minutes (the length of the call on my phone).

"Most people's kids will survive if they do this. Most peoples kids will survive if they never strap them in the car. Most peoples kids will survive if their house doesn't have smoke detectors. Most peoples kids would survive if they left them at home all night."

LOL sorry but I have to laugh.

Not sure what you're lolling at but I was just pointing out that sating you've done something and you're kids have survived doesn't prove it's a good idea.

Equating not being within 2 metres of your child for 5 minutes with leaving them home all night or never strapping them into the car. Good Lord, and I believe you were accusing someone else of not understanding probability.

I didn't say it was the same risk. I was just saying that if you left a baby in their cot all night that always slept through they would likely be fine but most people wouldn't do it.
I would imagine the chance of the op getting into a car accident driving the 30 secs to the shop on a one off in a small village would be very very very low but imagine the reaction if she had posted saying she had done it without an age appropriate carseat!

Likelihood of being fine for 3 minutes in cot vs. 12 hours over night...errmmm...can't do probability but it does multiply the chances of something going wrong HUGELY.

A huge number of car accidents (possibily majority) happen within a few mins of your home (I think I remember reading), so again...not really a comparison.

Mt point stands that something 'probably being ok' doesn't mean it's an advisable thing to do.

Secretmincerinser- who mentioned driving to the shop?! It's opposite my house!

It's just a 'point' Scherherzade. But a bit of a one! If we only ever did things which were 100% incontovertably safe, then we probably wouldn't be able to make a cup of tea, slice of toast, or play in the snow!

What if you got run over? What if you broke your leg? What if you got stabbed? What if you had a stroke? What if the house burnt down? What if baby started choking? Do you think you're invincible? ANYTHING could happen to you or your baby so why should you risk it for a trip to the shop for something that isn't as important as the safety of your child. YADBU. Dont even think about it.

i wouldnt.

IfI had a stroke I'd rather it be in the village shop (who know I have a baby) than alone at home....

And it's more of a midsummer murders than a inner London ghetto type village! Risk of stabbing - negligible.

If we think about all possible "what if's" we are not safe anywhere.

What if you go upstairs, slip on the stairs, fall down and break your neck? What if you pass out in the bath and drown?
What if you're electrocuted when doing laundry?

So you should really just sit on the sofa and not move. Then again, a truck can drive into your house and kill you anyway.

Walking across the street in a small village is most likely about as safe as going upstairs in your own house, which most mothers would be ok doing.

never in a million years would I leave a baby in the house alone.