Have you got a wooden or tiled floor at bottom of your stairs?

[nappyaddict]

If so did you use a stair gate?

got a wooden floor at the bottom of stairs and used a stair gate at the top but not the bottom as it would not fit.

Generally closed doors to keep small ones in and away from the stairs.

It is worse now they are older as they like to jump down the stairs and slide along the wooden floor

Tiled and we also have one at the top but not the bottom. Luckily DD's never been a keen stair climber.

We got a stair gate after I found ds half way up. He fell down the stairs at about 11 months old too he was fine but scared me!

Both of my DC are good on stairs - so didn't hold them back.

Yes. Stair gate at top but not at bottom as the newell post won't allow it. Have had a couple of accidents, including ds1 riding his scooter down the stairs. On purpose. Luckily no injuries. I do think the key is teaching them to use the stairs safely, both mine learned almost as soon as they could crawl, and continued to come down on their tummies feet first after they started to walk.

Wooden floor and stair gate.
They are both pretty good on stairs now so the gate is mostly to keep them out of my older children's rooms.

Wooden Floor, stair gate went onto the bottom step as it was they only place it would fit.