Stupid husband I am fuming

[eddm]

Just caught my not-very-d h leaving our baby on the bed while he came downstairs to get something from the kitchen! The cot is right next to the bed, for heaven's sake, but too much trouble to put baby in that, obviously. I am soooo angry don't care if it is a large bed and baby was in the middle, it's still wrong. And dh knows it. Which is why he is sulking, of course. Anyone else have an equally stupid dh or dp? Or is it just mine?

I think you'll have to try me....

not just men's brains though
my mil . . .
well my least favourite was when I left her with ds aged about 8 months and crawling for about a minute, during which time she left him downstairs, alone, with all the doors to outside open (including hte garden where the uncovered pond is that one of her other grandkids had apparently already fallen into on another visit) while she went upstairs to do the crossword. I found her up there and had to ask 3 times where ds was (in increasingly frantic tone) before racing downstairs and scouring the house before finding hium behind one of the sofas happily playing.
but have to admit that my new mum hormones seem to be wearing off and I'm a lot less cautious aobut ds these days and have even on occasion messed up myself (hate to admit to not being perfect mum!)like leaving him in pram unattended for a few minutes and coming back to find poor lamb had flung himself onto the floor and collapsed the pram around him. I'd have killed dh if he'd done that!
the most frustrating part is when dh refuses to accept that he did anything wrong - aaargh!

Think I am quite dim sometimes. Would quite frequently leave DS on the bed when he was a baby (just to go to the loo or something). Would always put a pillow either side though. Still have not got a bottom stair gate and DS tries to follow me upstairs. Thing is he can crawl upstairs fine and when I follow him has NEVER slipped. When do you let them upstairs on their own?

My dad dropped my sister on her head when she was a toddler. He was throwing her up and down in the air, her giggling manically and he just missed her. I think she bounced in the end and there was no damage down to er. My mum almost killed my dad though

AT 21 months, and having been in a toddler bed for 3 months, DD fell out of bed twice last night!!! How? Why?

Ds rolled out of his pram on to stone harbour steps .... dp and I had rapid induction into the ways of Portugese clinics (fabulous - clear the way for the mother in tears).....my NOOOOOOOOOOOO apparently chilled the blood for a 4 mile radius...both of us to blame. Not one I like to recall..and not known to the family as they would probably take him off us!

Hulababy we have bed rail thing for DS but DH put it back (after hol) too low down in the bed and DS half fell out. He was dangling with head in a crate of cars and feet still in bed crying when we found him. Not sure how long he'd been there because we were ironing/watching TV. Must have been 30 months plus then.

We do hear the odd THUMP as dd1 rolls out of bed occasionally.

remember one day when we were all going to the fumfair when DD2 was about 4 months old (she was prem. so still was tiny) and I didn't strap her in the double buggy, she was in a cosytoes and a blanket so I thought she wouldn't fall out but what we hadn't bargained for was my brother was pushing her and when we got to the fields he had to tip the buggy to get it over the bumps of mud and she flew out the back, where the hood is attached to the seat, my brother caught her though but he hated me for not strapping her in

mieow...thats exactly how ds fell out . Strapping him in wouldn't have made a blind bit of difference, he was a dot....but tipping the buggy up, now that was just plain stoopid...(us, not you!)

oh yea, very stupid!!!!!

Remember when ds was crawling/cruising, mum & I in one roon, bil & dad in the adjoining room which opens onto hallway - that door was shut. bil & dad warned once by me & once by mum NOT to let ds out into the hallway. DS was exploring the two rooms. All got quiet, asked dad & bil had they seen ds get past, door was open they said "dunno, but it doesn't matter as ds can't climb stairs yet"

I found ds upstairs in the bathroom playing with his bath toys !!!
Just to realy give me the heebie jeebies M&D's house not toddler proof.
Not even dh would have let that happen.

I sometimes wonder if anything happened to me and dd was left in dh's care, would she make it to adult hood? He left her on the sofa when she was a baby and predicatably she fell off, and he also left the stair gate open and she climbed the stairs and fell down them (thankfully only about 5 steps). However now she is 18 months old he had 'learnt' and acquired 'vigilance' skills...to the extent that he will spot a potential choking hazard and remove it etc...so there is hope, even men can learn!

Thanks everyone you really cheered me up and stopped me a. sniping at dh and b. moaning to my mother and sister which would have made dh sulk FAR more. MI, btw, I've emailed you!