to leave my child in the car with a travel monitor.

[Libra1975]

The car sends my 16week old LO to sleep, am I being unreasonable to want to buy a travel monitor so when I get home and he is fast asleep in his carseat I can leave the monitor with him and go into the house to get things done rather than wake him up?

I used to be lucky if ds2 stayed asleep when I turned the engine off!
The same ds2 (2y9m) who has just been carried in from the car and is asleep on the sofa, and who I am going to have to wake for the school run i about 4 minutes.

Grapes are a choking hazard, so people cut them up before giving them to the child.

some people also peel them....

(and yet nearly everyone lets their tots eat raisind)

I used to leave my dc asleep in the car when they were young......but a friend who also used to do it, had a car fire, car was on the drive Thankfully she had not left her ds in the car.

"Better to get in the habit of taking him out, and putting him to bed indoors. he'll get used to being moved pretty quickly, and then resettle himself in bed - useful for settling himself in bed generally."

pmsl!! You obv never met DD

If the car is in a safe place, go for it.

I let ds1 stay in the car reading when I nipped into the shop yesretday. Showed him how to unlock the door and gave firm instructions on not to open the door or leave the car - unless it suddenly burst into flames. He looked at me as if I was mad.

I still cut grapes for my 4yo. But, I did also leave him to sleep in the car on the driveway. Either hatchback open so I could hear, or windows cracked open and a baby monitor.

Just to reassure you CS, a stationary car will not ever burst into flames. In the incredibly unlikely event that a car with the ignition off catches fire it will smoulder for a long while before anything dramatic happens. I checked with a mechanic as had been watching too many James Bond films

I'm also a lengthwise sausage-cutter as well as a grape cutter!

Depends where you live. Where I am it was perfectly safe to stick the baby monitor with the sleeping baby in the car in the drive in a quiet lane, keep an eye open, and get on with something while he slept.

Take every break going to you, is my philosophy. The only time I wouldn't do this is if a baby had already been in the car seat for hours and hours because it's not good for their backs. But after a short shopping trip or something--why not?

If it's a private driveway, don't see a problem at all. Can't do it myself because we have street parking. Can never transfer them to bed, they always wake up and takes ages to settle them again.

I'm not sure I avoid every potential hazzard. I just read an article written by ROSPA on grapes and cherry tomatoes and it scared me.

Even I don't think the car may catch fire on the drive or that a lurking paedophile will just be waiting for the day I leave baby in the car.

You see, no crazy sausage cutting here!

The diameter of a (small) sausage is the exact diameter of a toddlers wind pipe. They are actually one of the greatest choking hazards (along with grapes and cherry tomatoes) so it's not as mad as it seems. A friend of mine's DS nearly choked on one.
Think I'll need to stop doing it before the DDs got to University though
But I do often leave them both asleep in the car on the driveway.

I do this - often sit in the window drinking a cup of tea in peace and watching DD2 sleep in the car. Neither of mine have ever transferred asleep . It's best to open a window a little though as a stationary car can get very airless very easily. And obviously it's not good in hot weather.

I've left DS asleep in the car on the driveway before, tho he is actually quite easy to transfer if we've travelled somewhere in the evening and he's going straight down for a full night's sleep. It depends how long he's been asleep. If it's before his lunchtime nap tho, I tend to leave him. I do make sure I'm able to see him at all times...

Having said this, It's bloody freezing at the moment, so I probably wouldn't do it til it warmed up a bit. Same said for middle of summer too, a bit too hot to leave them to bake.....

I have the same anxiety at petrol stations.... do I take him in, or do I leave him and lock the car while I pay....

I frequently leave DS1&2 asleep in the car. We don't have a driveway, but live on a quiet cul-de-sac and I can see into the car from the kitchen window. I've tried using a baby monitor in the car, but it didn't work. In the summer I leave all the car windows open so I hear the second DS2 wakes up (screaming!), and in the winter I check every couple of minutes. This is actually lest restful than getting him to sleep in the house as if he's asleep there for an hour, checking every 2 minutes means I can't have a nap as well!

Everyone in our street with small children does this, and in the summer I'd think nothing of knocking on a neighbours door to tell them that their child was waking up. Lovely friendly street

Would you leave £1 million pounds alone in a car with a baby alarm?

Multiply that by a million million. Thats what your baby is worth.

Please do not leave baby alone in the car. It is a risk not worth taking.

I probably wouldn't carry a million quid round the shops in a pushchair either. But I think people would think me a little overcautious if I only every transported the DDs in a Securicor van.

As much as I love DD I am pretty sure that she has less allure than £1 million cash left out for all to see. If you lock the car and can see the child from your window you are unlikely to miss the crazed kidnapper picking your locks after just happening to pass by.

Lol at articlemming....

If you live somewhere safe enought then I see no problem. We live in a fairly isolated spot so I just leave DS to sleep and put the car alarm on. He sets the alarm off as soon as he wakes up.
I could also leave a million pounds in the car here. Might be safer than in a bank these days!

Can I have a million pounds, then you can see if I would leave it in the car!!

Please.