where are your safety gates downstairs for baba?

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as i cannot make up my mind where i put mine?

lol! you put them anywhere you don't want baby to go!

we have one on the kitchen so ds doesn't keep going in there.

I don't have them anywhere downstairs but we do have a door to the stairs, so would have put one there if there hadn't been.

We have one on the kitchen but thats it. Dont put one on the stairs as we used to just shut the living room door. Now ds is old enough to go up and down them alone and has done from about 18mths.

Where do you want to stop her from going? We had one across the kitchen, because we had no door, one at the bottom of the stairs, and one across the French windows so I could open them without dd falling down the step.

well ive got 3 doors going off the hallway and the stairgates... but im not sure whether to block the living room door way so she stay in l. room or block half of the hallway or block bottom of the stairs

I would do living room so she cant go in kitchen or upstairs without you knowing.

i usually put her in a playpen if im going out of the room (she is 13 mths old BTW)

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baba same as baby...

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On the bottom of the stairs but have stopped closing it now. DD is 18 months. Still close the top one though if she is up there. Am thinking of getting rid of bottom one and I never had one for DS because he never once climbed the stairs of his own accord.

How does it work having one on the kitchen. DD would scream if I didn't let her in there with me. If I am cooking she stands on a chair at the worktop next to me. Or just wanders in and out.

We have the bottom of the stairs covered and the kitchen... We have none upstairs as D is never aloud to roam loose up there!

we have 3 kitchen, top and bottom of stairs

have cat food and cat litter trays in a cupboard in kitchen so don't want her in there

also means she has full run of upstairs and downstairs

I think I am a slack mother because DD has the full run of upstairs and downstairs including the kitchen.

One at bottom and one at top of stairs, we also fitted some latch type things to secure doors, to stop DS running into utility room (cat litter) and kitchen.

We had top and bottom of the stairs, and I'm a bad mother too Bozza - DD was always just roaming I had the same thing of screaming child if I tried to lock her out of the kitchen, which was actually more dangerous because I was distracted than just letting her in with me. A pot of pegs on the floor normally kept her amused

Once she mastered the stairs, we just had one on her bedroom (went into proper bed) so that she coulnd't wander about at bedtime.

Probably gonna be very lax with this baby

In our old house we had 2 downstairs. One between the kitchen and living room and one at the bottom of the stairs.

Now we just have one at the bottom of the stairs and we'll be putting a new one up either on dd's bedrrom door or on the landing somewhere so she can't go downstairs or in the bathroom (bleachville)

Well DD is the second child flamesparrow. I kept the top stairgate up but open for a while after DS mastered the stairs because the top of the stairs is directly opposite his (then) bedroom door and I was worried about him falling down accidentally but its harder to fall through the gap in the gate IYSWIM.

Another slack mum here - just have one at the top of the stairs and otherwise have just supervised them as they roam around.

So I'm just slack early? We had the upstairs gate up, but open for ages... ours was because we were squabbling over who was taking it down!!