Should I worry about toddler falling over stairs hand bannister

[ForRubyMoose]

On my landing in my house I have terrace Victorian house with spindles and a hand banister at the top of the stairs.

Should I be worried the toddler will try to climb over the hand bannister and fall down the stairs?

Not my house in the picture but hard to describe.

Same way they climb over stairs gates

My eldest would climb out of his cot, could climb over the stairgate and would even open drawers in my bedside table to create a ladder to climb onto my bed. But he never attempted to climb over the banisters.

Thank you

Depends on the dc as to whether it's a risk.

Ds was climbing out of his cot aged 7 months wearing a sleeping bag. However he never tried to climb the banisters, although they were horizontal not vertical so easy to climb. He climbed with a purpose.
Dd2 was much more tricky because she climbed because it was there. I had an old duvet cover that I fastened over the banisters with a safety pin to make it harder until she was old enough to have some common sense (I think she has some now - she's 21, so maybe I should take it down now😁 )
Dd1 never climbed anything. Heck, it took her a month after moving to a bed to realise she could climb out rather than calling for us.

We have that and not an issue obviously don't have anything they can climb up - chair, bookcase, next to it

And position safety gate appropriately

My youngest DC is 6 now and the second he starts to stir or even breathing changes, I hear him. I wish I could turn my mum radar off, but it’s never been a fear he would get up without me hearing him. The joys of having children -nnever sleeping properly again!

I've raised three boys to adulthood in a house with syairs exactly like these. We had a stairgate at the top and bottom. We also told them very early on that climbing would be very dangerous and told them they would have to go to hospital for a very long time if they climbed and fell, which was a great deterrent. Unfortunately, as teenagers they all "forgot" this and all were caught clambering at various times. Threats of removing cherished items put a stop to that.

Make sure to never leave anything they could climb on and put a well fitted stair gate on. Look at legal requirements for height and distance between spindles just to make sure its compliant as its an old house. Also a toddler shouldn't be left unsupervised for long anyway. I have a galleried landing and never had a problem with DC climbing up it.