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Ever locked your baby in your car?

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kiskidee · 16/08/2006 22:50

Accidentally, I mean. I did it this afternoon. Dd was playing with the keys - in her mouth and protesting me putting her in the carseat. I took the keys off her, chucked it on the driver's seat with handbag, phone, everything. I slammed the passenger door shut and walked to the other side and tried to open the driver's door. Oh, oh. When she was messing with it, she had electronically put the doors on lock. It was hot in the car.

Poor thing she was screaming already because she didn't want to get into the car anyway. I ran into an office to phone the AA. they said they'd be there in 2O mins! after waiting to voicemessages for 5. We phoned the police who came in less time and broke the car window. They even had a helicopter respond. She was drenched in sweat and screaming. Mummy was also drenched in tears too.

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dmo · 16/08/2006 22:54

poor you what a nightmare
heard of this happening
friend of mine went to halfords and got a magnetic box which fits under car with a spare key in, just have to watch out for robbers

CarolinaMao · 16/08/2006 23:08

oh you poor thing

I'd be in bits it that happened to me. Hope you've got someone to run you a hot bath and pour you a large glass of wine tonight...

2shoes · 16/08/2006 23:09

i locked dd in car when she was abot 3 totally panicked (she has cp) lucky the lady at school for parents belonged to AA and they came out

fattiemumma · 16/08/2006 23:12

i did the same thing when DS was younger.

i know give my parents the spare car key so i can call them if i need to.

CountTo10 · 16/08/2006 23:13

What a nightmare - you must have been all over the place. Big glass of wine and even bigger bar of chocolate for you methinks x

threelittlebabies · 16/08/2006 23:29

Oh poor you kiskidee, hope you and her are recovering together xxx

edam · 16/08/2006 23:31

Glad you are OK and got help from the police. Bloody AA!

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kiskidee · 17/08/2006 08:34

she was whingy and clingy all evening after that. but fine this morning. still makes me upset to think about it. she has tiny red spots on her cheeks which i think is little capillaries that broke in her face with all the screaming.

it's been bloody cold and wet the past week and bloody cold and when does it happen? in the only sunny 2 hours which meant the car was absolutely boiling for her.

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threelittlebabies · 17/08/2006 09:52

Oh poor thing How old is she? dd cried so much she burst all the capillaries in her eyelids when she was 2 weeks old and had some really horrid tests at hospital and I cried rather a lot too!

GeorginaA · 17/08/2006 09:54

Haven't done that, but my toddler ds2 once locked me out of the house - took 45 minutes to get a locksmith to come and break open the door. We were both distraught You have my utmost sympathy and empathy.

JunkInMyTrunk · 17/08/2006 09:55

dd1 locked me out of the house once while I was putting washing out on the line. She'd shut the patio doors behind me and managed to flick the lock back up but when I came to come back in she couldn't flick it back down.
She started screaming as she realised I couldn't get back in and dd2, 6 weeks old at the time, was upstairs asleep.
In the end had to ring police who manged to get in thru an upstairs window!

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kiskidee · 17/08/2006 10:59

she's nearly 16 months. she'll have to holler instead of getting to play with the car keys from now on!

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Lilymaid · 17/08/2006 11:03

Yes, DS1 once got locked into car with keys (God knows how) outside childminders. After attempting to get him - then a toddler to open the doors for me, I called the RAC. Fortunately it wasn't a hot day and he wasn't remotely bothered. The RAC was there within half an hour.

Nemo1977 · 17/08/2006 11:03

not locked in car but ds locked me out the house last summer he was 22 mths at the time and I was about 6mths pg..I sobbed like and idiot while I ran to neighbours to ask could I use the phone..called dh who told me he couldnt leave work so had ot call pil who were luckily home.Was horrendous as he was in the house alone for 30mins but had helped himself to bread and was reading books on the couch.

MadamePlatypus · 17/08/2006 15:41

No, but I often imagine that I will.

I think there were photographs of Gail Porter in Heat in a similar situation a couple of years ago.

bobblehead · 17/08/2006 19:28

Kiskidee I did exactly what you did about 2 weeks ago to 14 month old dd. It was also a really, really hot day and car had been sitting in midday sun for a couple of hours and was like an oven. Luckily I had given her a bottle of milk to drink in her carseat and even more luckily my neighbour was with me, who drove like a madwoman to my house (she had my spare key) and picked up extra car keys. This only took 10 mins, but by then dd was drenched in sweat. Fortunately she was not remotely bothered by any of it, just sat there drinking milk, playing with her feet and smilimg at me in a "why aren't you getting in?" kind of way.
I was still suffering flashbacks 2 days later on the other hand.

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kiskidee · 17/08/2006 21:51

i still can't shake the feeling that i am the only person daft enough for this to happen to even after hearing other stories. that she was hysterical and the car was hot was so upsetting to watch her scream.

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kiskidee · 17/08/2006 21:52

thanks for sharing your experiences

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PrettyCandles · 17/08/2006 22:00

Twice. Once, fortunately, outside my parents' house and they had a spare key, but the other time it was outside my flat and I locked everything - bag, keys, mobile - inside as well. Grabbed a stranger walking through the car park to borrow his mobile and then went totally to pieces when talking to the AA dispatcher. Fortunately said stranger took over from me and explained the situation. AA arrived very quickly, ds was none the worse for the experience, more distressed at my distress than at being locked in. Even more fortunately the stranger turned out to be one of my neighbours' sons, and he and his brother looked after us so nicely, and comforted me, and took us up to their mum's flat for tea, cake and sympathy. A thing to have come out of such an unpleasant experience.

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