Help! Baby proof door stop needed!

[EddieIzzardismyhero]

Just moved into a new house with wooden floors throughout downstairs, and a lot of doors! The doors aren't brilliant fitting and move easily - and my 9mth old DS seems to have discovered a love of them, playing with them at every opportunity, which basically involves pulling them towards his head, bashing himself and getting his arms/legs stuck under them. The bruises he has are becoming beyond a joke .

I rushed out and bought the 'cheese wedge' door stops which lasted all of about an hour, before he worked out how to pull them out from under the door , so now I'm stuck.

Have seen these in Lakeland but worry that he'll just push them out of the way (or my 2 yr old will think they're a toy and move them for him!), anyone any experience of these?

If not anyone have any other suggestions - stress levels are through the roof right now trying to constantly retrieve him from his favourite toys .

TIA.

Take any doors you don't need down and replace with stairgates. We haven't had a kitchen door for about a year. It also gives me a better line of sight into the lounge-diner when I am cooking.

Getting all our internal doors rehung/ completely replaced is on our list of jobs before we sell though. So I am not suggesting this as something to enhance the value of your home.

You need these. If you put them quite far toward the hinges they are totally babyproof.

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Oh, wait a moment. How deep are the gaps under your doors? If they are massive they might not work, the part of the doorstops that fit under the door are about 3 - 3 1/2 cm (uncompressed). Will compress right down but you'd have to add blocks to the feet if they needed to be taller.

Good idea spider, but we need the doors unfortunately cos of needing to shut the bloody cats in on occasion .

Driven, they are brilliant - but our doors are 3 1/2 cm off the floor so does that mean they won't work?

What about the mesh roller stairgates are they cat proof? We don't have them so no experience of what they are like. (No cats either)

Of course DS has had to get used to our doors and can open all the ones that remain. M will probably grow out of his door fixation given a month or so. Can you handle it that long?

Yup, they are fantastic. But, I've just measured mine at 3.2 cm, so, too short. Mine are actually another make (or so they claim), but I'm certain they are/identical to the Baby Dan ones.

It would be really very easy to stick blocks to the bottom of the feet to make the doorstop higher though. The non-slip ridged rubbers under the feet aren't that well glued on so you could remove them and re-stick them to the bottom of the blocks, no problem.

Otherwise, maybe something like this might work? I'm afraid I've no idea what they're called in English

Thanks driven, someone on my PN thread has just linked me to a very simliar thing too - perfect!

Hopefully an end to bumped heads coming soon .