anyone know of a removable stair gate sturdy enough for a 2yo?

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DD is 2yo and almost able to clamber out of her cot (I'm looking to buy a toddler bed) but is there a stair gate out there that's sturdy enough/high enough to put across the bedroom door which is also removable so I could take it to relative's houses?

I fully recommend the Lindam range, BUT our little one, has just turned 3 and has just worked out how to open it using both hands. I would still recommend it for portabilitry and for being adaptable.

I have the lindam travel one which folds up. I use it at DDs door at night time. It's pretty tough, though you have to climb over it to get in because, being a travel one it doesn't open, (I'm only 5ft and I can do it easily) or you have to remove it every time ( not too difficult either). DD is nearly 3 and can't climb over it or budge it ( even when in a temper she runs into it at full speed!) it's also handy to take away on holiday too.

Can't help with a removable one, but the only gates that keep my 2.5 DS in a room now are the ones that are called "pet gates" and are very tall. Otherwise he is over in a jiffy!

Pet Gates ???
Hate to say it folks but at some point you will need to let the child out of their room.
By 2 children can confidently get up and down the stairs so with a light on are unlikely to fall, can also understand and remember instructions like "when you wake up pop into mum and dads room and wake us", if you'd rather they didn't wander about on their own in the mornings, also they will start potty training and will need to access the loo independently.
Maybe rather than buying higher and higher gates make a plan to help them manage a bit.

I would definitely go for gate at top of the stairs rather than a gate to keep them in their room, won't be long before they are wanting to get to a toilet etc.

AFAIK you must use a screwed into the wall kind at the top of stairs, not a portable one.

They may be called a pet gate but are the same ones the nursery uses on their stairs etc. They are just tall, otherwise same as a baby gate.

We have to have something to stop our DS leaving his room at night, I cannot just let him wander around the house (he is a climber and will be up on shelves, tables etc, and potentially falling off). The stairs are not really the problem in themselves, he is fine with them. He is still in nappies so no toilet issue, and he is language delayed so would not understand or follow instructuions about what to do if he wakes up (I am sorry but you have to remember that not all 2 year olds are the same, our DS cannot understand to that level yet).

I went for the Lindam extra tall safety gate. It's not technically portable, but doesn't screw into the wall so can be taken to another house if needed.
It's not so much the stairs I worry about as the fact that DD can work our door handles and even unlock doors from the outside like the bathroom door, so if she gets out of her room she bascially has the run of the house including the kitchen. We've not yet braved the potty training, so that's not an issue.

We have gates on the stairs, not on DS's room. TBH he only ever came out of his room when he first started napping in his bed. He never gets out of the night now (he's 2.1 and went into the bed at 22 months) - he went through a phase when he first started in the bed but he never left his room.