Wireless Monitor For When Baby Falls Asleep In Car?

BAGGY

My driveway leads behind my house. I would leave my twins in the car (if they ever fell asleep) while I pottered in the kitchen with the back door open and car doors open too. I would also leave them in their buggy outside the back kitchen door.
Once moved they would never fall back to sleep. EVER!
In answer to the original question......We got a BT monitor where the kid's bit was either rechargable batteries and the other parent end pugged in.

meer53

Babies are babies for such a short time, i don't feel it's worth putting a baby (or toddler) knowingly, into a situation which carries any risk at all. People always think "it will never happen" but i always think "what if i'm that one person it does happen to ?"

OP, if your child wakes up when you move them into the house, just accept it. Better to have a cranky child than no child at all.

Please don't leave them in your car.

daisiegg

meer53 wrote: »

Babies are babies for such a short time, i don't feel it's worth putting a baby (or toddler) knowingly, into a situation which carries any risk at all.

I think this is a bit of a sweeping (and silly) statement! Driving in a car carries risk, crossing the road carries risk, having visitors carries risk (germs!), carrying the baby in your arms while walking down the stairs carries risk, sitting in your house carries risk (fire, gas leaks, intruders, aeroplane falling on your house, alien invasion...), starting to give the baby food carries risk (choking).......you can't avoid situations which carry 'any risk at all'!!! I can't think of any situations that don't involve some risk...

meer53

daisiegg wrote: »

I think this is a bit of a sweeping (and silly) statement! Driving in a car carries risk, crossing the road carries risk, having visitors carries risk (germs!), carrying the baby in your arms while walking down the stairs carries risk, sitting in your house carries risk (fire, gas leaks, intruders, aeroplane falling on your house, alien invasion...), starting to give the baby food carries risk (choking).......you can't avoid situations which carry 'any risk at all'!!! I can't think of any situations that don't involve some risk...

Leaving a sleeping child in a car is an avoidable risk.

supersaver2

meer53 wrote: »

Leaving a sleeping child in a car is an avoidable risk.

Most activities that carry risk could be described as avoidable, live in a bungalow so no stairs to fall down, don't travel in a car to avoid the risk of an accident, only shower so no chance of drowning in a bath etc. There are avoidable risks with pretty much every activity/decision we make yet we still do them to make our lives easier.

janninew

CH27 wrote: »

Someone could crash into it!

Statically you are much more likely to be involved in a RTA whilst in motion so does that mean us responsible parents shouldn't be driving and taking risks with our children. After all driving is not a necessary activity, in most cases it's for convenience.

I took a risk this morning taking my dogs for a walk with my pram, a car didn't stop at red lights which I'd started crossing, I don't 'need' to walk my dogs(or indeed own them) so it was a risk that I took walking the streets with my child.

For information I personally wouldn't leave my child in the car but I do feel some responses are slightly ott, you are no more likely to have your child snatched now than you ever were (in fact crime rates have been falling) there is just more media coverage. As for the weather, the recent heat spell as been very unusual for our part of the world, your child isn't likely to overheat on a average day in this country.

I'm sure most of us do things that other parents won't agree wth, I don't agree with the women stood smoking outside Halfords yesterday whilst heavily pregnant, not my place to say anything though.

meer53

supersaver2 wrote: »

Most activities that carry risk could be described as avoidable, live in a bungalow so no stairs to fall down, don't travel in a car to avoid the risk of an accident, only shower so no chance of drowning in a bath etc. There are avoidable risks with pretty much every activity/decision we make yet we still do them to make our lives easier.

Of course, some risks are unavoidable in daily life. You have to make a judgement about whether to put yourself or your family in that situation. Babies and toddlers can't make that decision so it's up to adults to do that for them.

My personal opinion is that i would never leave my child sleeping in a car, whatever the weather, or where it was parked. If my child woke up then i'd deal with it.

daisiegg

meer53 wrote: »

Leaving a sleeping child in a car is an avoidable risk.

Of course, and I agree with that, but you said: " i don't feel it's worth putting a baby (or toddler) knowingly, into a situation which carries any risk at all"!!

Morglin

People should also beware of the risk of putting kids to bed, in a bedroom:

http://www.whitehavennews.co.uk/news/ceiling-falls-in-on-child-s-room-after-two-month-wait-for-repair-1.1109012

Lin

Georgiegirl256

Morglin wrote: »

People should also beware of the risk of putting kids to bed, in a bedroom:

http://www.whitehavennews.co.uk/news/ceiling-falls-in-on-child-s-room-after-two-month-wait-for-repair-1.1109012

Lin

That's my local newspaper! Woodhouse is about 10 mins away from where I live.

She says the child has been to the doctors and was given an inhaler. Apart from the obvious damp all those soft toys won't be helping! :eek: