Share your top tips - where do / did you put your baby to keep it safe from your toddler?

[BroccoliSpears]

I can't leave my toddler and my baby together unchaperoned even for a second. Sometimes I need to put the baby down or leave the room or change the washing over or answer the door...

My toddler is a prolific climber and can easily get in and out of cots / play pens etc. Currently a baby gate keeps her contained but not for much longer. If I close doors I can't hear the baby cry or the toddler yell.

Am considering installing a moses basket 5 feet off the ground, attached to the wall of each room. (Joke).

Seriously. Where do I put the baby? Am I missing the obvious?

It's a bit like that game where you have a fox, a chicken and a bag of grain and you have to get them all across the river but can't leave the fox alone with the chicken or the chicken alone with the grain or the chicken unattended or it will wander off or...

Can you put baby under the stairs seriously can you put baby in another room with monitor on?

strap the baby to you?

sling I think.
I know I had a playpen which was quite handy for my first, but lethal with my second, because if i put the baby in it, ds1 would climb over and then jump in on top of it! That went pretty quickly. Same with the lovely lavendar lamb mat and arch; with ds2 in it, ds1 just jumped on top to play too. Carrying ds2 pretty much everywhere was about the only option!

put baby in this with playgym?

I just make sure that one of them is always with me!
If I need to go into the kitcen to do washing or make lunch etc then i take the baby in his bouncy chair.
If the door bell rings I usually take my toddler.
If i'm pottering about then i put the baby in a sling.

That's about what I'm doing now 2.4Kids.

Baby hates sling, but I'm working on it. Seems not to hate the baby bag as much as the others.

Maybe I just need to put up some more baby gates.

how old is your baby? mine is 3 months today and can hold his head ok now so i've just started putting him fcing forwards in the sling (its a close one) and he loves it. i think it is much more interesting for him

I had the same problem. I had to leave baby in the kitchen with the stairgate between the kitchen and the dining room.

Otherwise, it was like that old puzzle with the fox, the farmer, the chicken and the feed.

If you go upstairs to get something you have to take both children with you. But if you have two children to carry down, you need to throw down stairs the things you needed to get so that you can carry two children down!!

If you go to the loo downstairs you have to pull the toddler in with you so baby not savaged!

Oh those ol' days! It gets better. It can ONLY get better!

Broccoli, I swear I didn't read your observation but that's exactly how I always used to describe it to my friends. Do I know you!!?

roffle!

I don't think so. It really is like that though!

Baby is only just 3 weeks old. Will be better when can sit up I'm sure.

Next question: There must come a time when they can be left alone together. Either toddler will stop trying to maim baby, or baby will learn to adequately defend himself. Which of these will happen first, and when - WHEN - will it happen?

It does come eventually. Now, even though there are three years between my two dc, dc1 is five and just under 3 stone, and dc2 is two stone, so dc2 has really caught up and he can dish out a slap or a whack himself. I can leave them alone UNTIL I hear screams.