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1 year old found by the side of road

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QueenThistle · 01/05/2010 17:00

Baby abandoned by side of the road

Poor boy if he was abandoned but it says that relatives say he must have crawled out of the house.

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SuSylvester · 01/05/2010 17:02

best place for him.

Lulumaam · 01/05/2010 17:04

there have been lots of threads on here over the years about toddlers getting out of the house, although one does seem young to have crawled out of the house...thank goodness he is ok

su. it's not the law to be controversial of every thread that does not interest you

SethStarkaddersMum · 01/05/2010 17:06

phew, it;s not one of mine

bronze · 01/05/2010 17:06

crawled my arse
if he didn't belong to one of the close houses that they canvased how did he crawl far enough away without the parents noticeing he was missing
Poor kid

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QueenThistle · 01/05/2010 17:22

My thoughts too bronze...

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amidaiwish · 02/05/2010 20:56

when i was 2 my mum's friends found me walking down a busy main road in London

my sister (age 5) had let me out for a walk as i was annoying her

mylovelymonster · 02/05/2010 21:02

When my brother was 4 he took off on his tricycle down the A11 to Norwich to go see his daddy at work.............

SamanthaFox · 02/05/2010 21:05

10.40pm I would not be likely to be checking on my children.
I'd assume they were asleep. It's possible they had a door open and he got out somehow.

who knows.

foreverastudent · 08/05/2010 09:07

at the age of 3 my dad got bored when out shopping with his mum and walked 2 miles home!

bruffin · 08/05/2010 09:37

At the age of 3 I left DS in the garden playing under the sprinkle with no clothes on. The hose pipe came out of the garage so I put stair gate across garage door.
I found him running around naked outside playing with all the other children.
He had climbed over the stairgate, climbed onto his pushchair to grap the pull to the garage door and managed to open it and got out
Before the age of 1 he was pulling boxes behind him to stand on to reach places he couldn't normally reach just standing

Some kids are just mini houdinis

LynetteScavo · 08/05/2010 09:43

When I was about 6 I was playing at a friends house, and her baby brother was returned home, after being found crawling in the middle of the (quiet residential)road. The mum is a very responsible person, and I'd have no qualms about leaving my children with her now.

expatinscotland · 08/05/2010 09:45

My sister was 3 when my mother was pregnant with me.

Mama was exhausted and dozed off on the couch.

My sister pulled a chair up to the front door and managed to unfasten both the lock and the safety chain on it.

She had the door open and was walking out when my mum woke up.

EdgarAllenPoll · 08/05/2010 09:50

ah well, this reminds me of a story about two notable philosophers, married to each other, who were talking of big intellectual Things in German, French and English all at once (i imagine a normal being would get very confused about definite articles pretty fast doing thins..) over their breakfast.

and then the postman knocked on the door. he had their post, and their baby had fallen out of the window and crawled down the path...they hadn't noticed...

smallishsheep · 08/05/2010 09:51

I dread this. My dd, absolute dream baby, and I smugly congratulated myself on having bought her up fantastically.
My ds, different story. Mini Houdini since the day he was born. Will climb on anything and everything, can climb out of bed and over his stairgate with minimal effort. I was to see last week that he was very close to being able to unlock the front door. He is 2 next month. I always keep the keys in the lock so I don't have to find them in an emergency or if there was a fire. I'm going to have to remove them now. It is a shocking thing to happen, and if I still had dd I would have my terrible judgeypants on. But I have ds as well now, and can, unbelievably to my former self, completely see how something like this can happen.

bruffin · 08/05/2010 09:58

My DD was just as bad smallishsheep. I found her standing on top of the microwave one day getting something off the top of the wall cabinets.

gorionine · 08/05/2010 10:01

when DS 2 was arround 6 months old, he crawled under the garden fence while I was hanging the laundry (I had already made it safer with chicken wire but he still managed to fit underneath). Thanks God we lived in a close at the time and neighbours saw him pretty quickly. When I could not find him outside, I went back in and was was hysterical going up and down the stairs inside the house, not one second would I have thought he was out in the street.

ImSoNotTelling · 08/05/2010 10:08

When I was about 8months my grandad came around and left the front door ajar.

After a bit my mum started to wonder where I was, saw the door, I'd crossed one road, down some steps, across the grass and was heading purposefully for the main road...

Northernlurker · 08/05/2010 10:15

mil once had a neighbour ring the doorbell and say 'Do you know your baby's on the roof of the porch?' - he'd escaped through an upstairs window.

ArthurPewty · 08/05/2010 10:34

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borderslass · 08/05/2010 15:12

when dd1 was 3 and ds was 1 week I had a phone call from fil to say she'd just run across the rd in front of his car wouldn't come for her granny she was running away to aunties across the rd because of baby brother. Front door had been locked but she'd gotten the key out of my bag whilst I was feeding ds, phoned sil and she opened door and found her sitting on door step.

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