Baby in garage

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DH was out for a walk with the baby, came home and was going to do some work on his bicycle and said he would just take the baby into the garage in his pram. I said I'd rather he just bought him into the house as I wasn't sure the garage was that safe a place for the baby - think stuff up on the roof, tools and car parts everywhere. I was worried something could fall into the pram.

He thinks I'm mental . He brought the baby in to me anyway as he was only trying to give me another half hour to relax really so wasn't a big deal.

So am I being neurotic or is he being lax?

Yes first baby, don't know if I will have any more tbh, had a horrible time delivering him but that's a whole other thread!

When was the last time something fell off the roof of your garage?

If when ours is born, my husband wishes to take the baby out to the garage with him to fix bikes or whatever, as long as he/she is wrapped up, I won't have a problem with it.

So, it's fine for husband to have stuff drop on him then? By implication....

Don't really like him going in their either tbh but he's an adult that can choose himself. I'd wear a hard hat if I was going in haha

You will laugh at how neurotic you are being now in a couple of years. And also seriously regret not taking child free time because of undue worrying.

Unless things are in the habit of dropping off the ceiling, you are being daft.

OP, your post is very sweet, and screams first time Mummy !
We are all a bit that way, with our first born, all perfectly normal.
Congratulations on your new baby 💐💐💐

You wear a hard hat to go into your own garage?! Reallly?

Op, in my opinion women need at least 2 years to forget enough about birth of first baby to consider having another. Again perfectly normal, I suspect most women have horrendous first births (mine was 26hr labour, ventouse baby, episiotomy the works) - I swore never again

• I now have four dc's!!

pottering it was a joke, I very rarely go in there. Hate it.

when the baby gets old enough to open bottles and tins, take saws off shelves, and play with ropes, you will need to be more careful.

Like in your kitchen where you have knives and bleach.

In a pram is fine.

I'm surprised people are calling you a neurotic for having an eye to your child's safety. I was never particularly safety conscious until I had my dd. As long as your awareness of safety does not impinge majorly on your child's quality of life, I don't see the problem.

I'm surprised people are calling you a neurotic for having an eye to your child's safety

You know well that isn't why people are calling her neurotic. They are calling her that because she thinks that inanimate objects are going to fling themselves around a garage simply because a non walking baby in a pram enters the space.
Sensibly looking after safety is not neurotic, imagining and vastly inflating danger is. And unhealthy.

This thread has gotten a bit serious. I might have to draw a diagram of said inanimate objects

Once a little person comes along feelings can become rather personified. It's a natural instinct to protect your young. I wouldn't say you were being neurotic though...

Protective, yes :)

You may have to*

I wouldn't do it. If I think it could happen, do nothing and then it does happen I would never forgive myself.

I had a heavy ornament on my windowsill for years and never once knocked it off. Had DD and worried I might knock it off into her head. Brushed it off as irrational. Lo and behold that week I was putting a cardi on, flung it round my shoulder knocking heavy ornament right into the space where DDs Moses basket is much of the time.

I always act on my worries because it's better to be safe than sorry. Better to be a little neurotic than full of regret.

It doesn't help that I'm a teacher and have to be neurotic about safety all day every day. I'm hyper aware of the possible outcomes of any given situation.

My youngest took all her naps in our garage (integral with internal door) she wouldn't sleep ever in her cot but would the buggy. No space inside, so safer where she was.

You should have taken the opportunity for a quiet cuppa though.

I think we're all a little neurotic about our pfb tbf