MSE Parents Club Part 13

gill_81uk

My parents house has one set of stairs with a mini landing then a small set of stairs coming off either side. We used to have loads of fun jumping across and could never understand why my Mum used to shout at us!

emlou2009

I have a gate to keep the child off the stairs and out of the kitchen and therefore out of the bin/cat food. We have a big lounge and have removed everything dangerous from it, like a big playpen IYSWIM :rotfl:

It works for us. We have to have somewhere for the kitties to escape to when he wont leave them alone as well, and if he had free access to the kitchen and upstairs then they wouldnt get that, and he would get scratched and bitten (more often than he does :whistle:
If we tell him not to do something, he will go and do it 10x with a cheeky face, and distracting him with something else just doesnt work. He's sly, my boy!

Gill, we have narrow stairs/doorways and had to get these ones.It says they need screwing in but its actually the wall cup that the extending adjustable bits fit into that need screwing in, we havent actually bothered cos the extending bits are made of rubber and dont move at all applied straight to the wall

agscully

MFD - I am in much the same boat as you on this one, in that we would only get them if and when we felt we needed to, at the moment i dont see us needing them - but this might change.

Krystaltips

My little menace sounds very much like yours Em... My brother asked me tonight how I'll cope when I have the next one... That's why I bought the baby prison!

Jakesmummy

gill_81uk wrote: »

My parents house has one set of stairs with a mini landing then a small set of stairs coming off either side. We used to have loads of fun jumping across and could never understand why my Mum used to shout at us!

Lol this sounds a bit like the top of my stairs which jake is always jumping across, i dont think he understands why i tell him not to either lol!!

My_Fathers_Daughter

The CM has a stairgate and Benjamin shouts at her to close it if she leaves it open!!


There is no way that Benjamin would tolerate a baby prison!

3onitsway

gill_81uk wrote: »

3 - just found the other safety gate that asda had on amazon. It's the metal extending gate which fixes into wall, so definitely not the one you're after. Sorry

This is the one we got from the baby event for £7.50 when I was pregnant. http://www.toysrus.co.uk/Babies-R-Us/Safety/Gates-and-Playpens/Lindam-Flexiguard-Safety-Gate(0072557)?cm_mmc=Feed-_-Google%20Base-_-N%2FA-_-Lindam%20Flexiguard%20Safety%20Gate

emlou2009

I do wish we could have got S to tolerate some form of cagedness, but he does seem to have decided he is very much free range! He wont even stay in his high chair for long now, unless very very tired or very very starving hungry!

Interestingly though, he doesnt seem to want to get upstairs in the CM's house. Perhaps it is because she has never taken him up there?

MadDogWoman_2

I only used them as they were already here, it was easier for my mum too not having to chase Katie up and down the stairs or out of the kitchen.

We've ended up teaching Katie that when I'm opening the oven or lifting a hot pan she has to go and stand on the carpet, which means go and stand at the kichen door out of the way.

BrunoM

Grrrg

OH has been sick yesterday and today... yesterday she was nauseous, threw up while out with E, lots of stomach pain, possibly a bit feverish. Today, nausea subsided over the course of the day and is gone, but shortness of breath and occasional faintness have got worse. She refused point-blank to go to the doctor, then finally an hour ago she's like "maybe we should go to A&E I'm not sure". So we do NHS Direct and they don't think it's an urgent life-threatening issue but they recommend we go A&E tonight, so OH won't go (Friday night in A&E = 4+ hours with drunk injuries, and our neighbours babysitting a traumatised E til 3am) but "might go in the morning" if she still feels bad.

Gaaah.