Would you leave a sleeping baby in car in quiet residential street while you popped into friends house for 5 mins?

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And didn't keep car within your sight from house?
Personally I would not do this. But have friend who did.
Just wondered what general opinion was.

Why on earth not?

The dangerous part is putting the baby in the car in the first place. There are 9 deaths and 78 serious injuries on British roads every day.

The risks involved with leaving her in the car are so minimal as to be non existent.

No definitely not. If i needed to visit a friend for a few minutes and DC were asleep I would stand next to the car and talk to my friend. Same goes for petrol stations. I try to fill up when I have another adult in the car to stay with the DC, otherwise I will find a Pay at Pump petrol station.

No I would not but does not make me perfect either.

Yes and have.

The risks involved with leaving her in the car are so minimal as to be non existent.

That depends on where you live Owed, the putting in of car windows is common in my city, even the 'nice' parts.

They could think that as the baby is in the car valuables are as well. People are scummy enough to break into cars that have babies in them.

The lads round my way fire fireworks along the ground.

probably yes but it would depend what I was going in for. If it was a chat that could happen on the doorstep, that's where we would do it, but if I needed to, I don't know, take a quick look at a piece of furniture to say if I wanted it (ie needing to be IN the house) then yes. What really IS LIKELY to happen, (as opposed to could happen,) which yes, could be anything, abducted by aliens, spontaneous combustion, random child stealer come prepared with everything required to break into a locked car and remove a child through a broken glassed window....handbrake failure, even that (assuming you're not parked on a long steep gradient) is not actually going to be much of an issue if you roll a foot into another car's bumper. These things always depend on the exact circumstances so it is hard to generalise but on the whole if baby is under say 18m and sound asleep, then yes.

I would if I judged it to be safe - same kinds of decisions we all make when crossing the road, getting out of the car, leaving a child in a room, etc.

No.

No way.

No I wouldn't

No I wouldnt

I've never gone in to a house but I have left sleeping babies in the car for less than 5 minutes while picking up a prescription or having a quick doorstep conversation or dropping something off.

But I would never go in and have a conversation in a house while DC were in the car and I would always keep car within site (even at the pharmacy)

Pfb is 3 weeks old. I won't even leave her on the lounge when I'm making a cuppa in the kitchen, or go for a wee

I passed a car today where the toddler was so distressed I started going into the row of shops looking for her parent. He came out of the fourth one before I got to it. I assume he left her asleep and she woke up as he looked very surprised. He would not have far away at all but she was out of his line of sight. Her screaming ("Daddy!Daddy!Daddy!) was horrendous and left me shaking. She was absolutely beside herself.

I don't understand why and how people would take that risk. Ok it's a small risk that something would happen.

Bit blasé to me

Yes (but learned its not the thing to admit to on Mumsnet ). As others have said, actually driving in your car is probably far, far more dangerous.

Only if the car was in sight at all times.

I will leave dc in the car when paying for petrol if I can't pay at the pump

Those people who say that they would, but would watch the car the whole time, might as well bring the bloody baby into the house. Sounds easier to me.

No out f sight

But I left DS sleeping in the car to pop to a coffee kiosk (on the street) for five minutes today

Signet - do you really take your baby with you to the toilet ?

Yes. On my drive, or my mums for example. Cul de sacs in semi rural locations where nothing happens.

nope I wouldn't. I have left my baby in the car up our drive while I potted around the front garden, could see and hear her. would never go inside though.

Don't see the problem tbh with a secure car for 5 mins.

Never in a million years. People get flammed on here for threads about popping to the shop across the road while babies are in bed so I'm surprised at so many responses saying they would do this. Surely five minutes going to the shop while a baby is safely in its cot in a locked house is much safer than leaving a baby in a car out of sight.

Not if I couldn't see the baby. But today my 2 year old fell asleep in the car just before I got home. I parked on the street by our windows and my DH and I took turns to sit at the desk by the window and keep an eye on him. He wasn't out of either of our sight for more than about 10 seconds at a time. There's no way he would have stayed asleep, or gone back to sleep, if we'd tried to transfer him to his cot, and then he would have been grumpy and tired for the rest of the day. We were happy with our decision.

When I was a child, my mum would leave in the car if I was asleep on the drive home.

Funnily enough, my second mum said she would never do anything of the sort.