OMG! My dd just crawled up to the top of the stairs without us knowing!I Feel Awful

[Galaxy]

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galaxy how scary. I was cooking supper last night and realised I had left the stairgate open too, so I guess dd could have gone up

In a few years' time she will be buying sweets from the sweet shop and you won't know. Then a few years after that she will be snogging a boy at a party and you won't know.

This is where her life starts to branch off from yours. It's not a bad thing, it's good.

Feel the fear and do it anyway?

I purposely only have a gate at the top of the stairs in the hope that Lottie will feel compelled to pull herself up them. She just lays at the bottom craning her neck saying 'up, up, up'!

Don't worry Galaxy hon', nothing happened and you're only human, don't worry what could have happened to much, it didn't and everything is okay and i bet you won't forget to shut the gate again now!

TC xx

We only have one step in our flat but DS2 ( 9 months ) is unexplainingly drawn to it. He can get up but then sits at the top. He knows that if he goes head first it will hurt ( has done this once ) but can't work out how to get down. He sits there till he gets too frustrated and then I have to rescue.

She'd probably have had more sense than to try and go down - anyway they bounce....

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aww how lovely dont worry both have mine went up without me knowing and dd has mobility problems! I still worry now about dd thats why we still have stairgates but I am still reminded by friends that they got rid of theirs AGES ago. Chuffed for Stressy

It's when you didn't actually know they COULD climb stairs until you heard them bouncing down again that you have to worry

This was my dd2 at 6 months

I didn't realise she would be so different to DD1 who climbed one stair, learnt to climb down, climbed the second etc!!

I didn't have stairgates either, they were far to annoying

Seems like an opportunity to admit that I was locked out of my house yesterday with my DS crawling around on the floor inside for half an hour. It happened while rushing to get all the shopping inside so I could feed him his dinner. I ran around half the neighbourhood trying to get help (am probably the talk of the town - child services will probably come knocking soon). My neighbour has a spare key but wasn't home. Another neighbour watched DS from the glass in the front door and played peekaboo with him while I went to another neighbour to call a locksmith. Thankfully he hasn't shown much interest in the stairs yet as he has only been crawling a couple of weeks. Anyway there is a story to tell him when he is older - he was actually reasonably calm and took the opportunity to play with the wheels on the pram and with the shoes by the door. As nothing bad happened to him I plan on chalking it up to experience and hiding another key in our garden.

Don't feel bad Galaxy...DD1 feel off the sofa yesterday head first and my dumbed down reflexes didn't save her and I was sitting right next to her. And then today I undid my nursing bra with such gusto I hit her in the face.

Glad your DD is alright though.

pie I gave my ds a black eye doing that once.

Galaxy, don't worry it's just the beginning of many things to come. My ds went down the stairs twice before he was 1. The second time he hardly even cried. And I found out that he could climb ladders before he could walk by finding him 5 rungs up a 6 foot ladder.

Galaxy,

We've all done it. My darling husband left the stair gate open when dd was 11 months old and she fell down at least 7 steps (oak - uncarpeted)....

A near miss is sometimes a good thing for making you super vigilant in future.

A friend at work was telling me only yesterday how when his son was little and they had just moved house, they had shut the stair gate BUT hadn't looked at the gap between the bannister rails - yes you guessed it.....he fell - rushed to hospital, etc. Sat up in the x-ray room and looked at them like they were all mad.....

This happened to me when dd2 was about 10 months. It really shakes you up doesn't it?

This post has reminded me to take down our stairgate actually as I let dd2 crawl up and down happily now so it seems pointless...also its caused more accidents that it has stopped, my childminder tripped over the trip bar and nearly broke her knee and bashed dd2's forehead, also I wrenched my ankle trying to avoid it, and dd1 got the side of her hand trapped in the hinge mechanism. Hmmm, maybe not such a 'safety' gate after all