Stairs

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I'm new to this so not sure if I'm asking in the right place.

I have an issue with my stairs. Because of the layout of my stairs I'm unable to put a stair gate on to stop my 18mo going up the stairs (I've tried a stair gate) Make
Matters worse my stairs are actually in my living room so obvs there's no door. When she started Walking I had a foot stool that I had put in front to stop her going up which worked. As she's getting older tho and climbing she's able to climb over the stool and climb the stairs. I've been bringing her up and down holding her hand showing her safely but as she's only 18 months she can't be trusted. She's fallen down a few times. Not all
The stairs just the bottom few but there's a radiator there and I'm scared she gonna hurt her self badly on it. I have put her toy box in front which has done the trick and she can't move it because it's heavy and I've taken the lid off so she can't climb on. (Her toy box is actually a storage box as well as something to sit on) It's working well for now but I know it won't be long before she figures a way to get past that to.

Has anyone got advice on what else I could possibly do for long term??

Is it a width issue? We had issues with one end of our stairs being really wide.. we have an extender, the widest gate and screwed a strip of wood to the wall to attach the extender too! Or is it a peculiar shaped staircase?

I'm new to this. And this is probably a silly question but how do u reply to someone on this? Someone replied to a question of mine and I'm not sure how to reply back to them

You need to teach her to come down safely, ie not walking but backwards and on her hands and knees. We had no stair gate at the bottom of the stairs, just kept a close eye and spent a lot of time teaching!

@Bol87 it's the shape of staircase that's causing the problem. The banister is literally in the shape of like triangle. it's really weird. it was this way when we moved into the house. This is also my first baby so we've never thought about it before and never really crossed our mind tbh. I may be overthinking but I'm just really scared something bad is going to happen to her because of them. Get such bad anxiety over it!