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So, my MIL was childminding and she was coming for dinner tonight. She came in with Lottie in her arms with the wods 'I have a terrrible confession to make'.
Basically she was in the kitchen, doing stuff and Lottie was being a kid, exploring the house etc. My MIL then realised she'd not heard or seen her for a bit. Shouted to my FIL was she with him - no. So she looked around, then looked again, under tables, behind sofas. It's a big house so it took a while. She then noticed the back door was open. She thougth, maybe she's got into the back garden. Went out and looked around and as she got to the big 7 ft iron gate and walked through she was confronted by a policeman with Lottie in his arms!
She had crawled out, down steps, across huge garden, through big gate, across back drive and 3 garages and was sat in the middle of the road
Some woman found her and was a bit taken aback as you can imagine. She had then picked her up and called the police. The rest you know.
Reports were taken and I'm sure I'll hear more.
So worrying. She's 3.5 and when I carry her to the car in the morning or make her walk while I support her, I stop at the road and say 'stop, look, is there a car coming, no, lets cross', but I think that children, people with Down's syndrome quite often lack that sense of danger.
No harm done, and I'm not upset or angry or anything, but just feel sad really, and concerned that it'll happen again Worrying aye. i'll do what I can to make sure it doesn't happen if I can help it and make sure anyone who looks after her is aware that she can and will escape and sit in roads with no sense of danger if allowed, but..... well, I'll just leave it there, no need to go on.