Thx hun, i don't think i've ever gotten down stairs so quickly, there are 4 stairs down into the lounge and she has been using those so she doesn't seem 'scarred for life' lol.
We have a gate on both the up and downstairs now. We bought this place when I was pg with Oskar though so obviously we had to have one at least at the top. He still has fallen down the stairs though. He was about 18 months I think when he went down hmmm about 10 I think? It's so scary and I was checking him over like crazy. We now have a gate at the bottom also as Elijah kept crawling up them and if I was in the bathroom I couldn't stop him and he has also fallen down ... cos he was so fast one day that he got up about 3 or 4 high then thought he could just sit on them... ummmm wrong kiddo, wrong! Luckily babies and young kiddies "go with the flow" when they tumble and they don't brace and try to stop.
Our upstairs gate is only locked close if Elijah is upstairs and awake so Oskar can get up and down on his own. They are annoying but a necessary evil with young ones and/or kids who don't know how to use stairs well. I know kids older than Oskar who crawl up and still crawl backwards down..... so I basically keep all kids but my own off the stairs lol.
Thanks, there is only our room upstairs so i wont bother with one for up the top but when other kids are here i will be putting one at the bottom so they can't climb up and then fall down.
This morning Ava came up to my room and was sooking cos she didn't want to go down the stairs, being the mean mum i am i made her sit on her bum and go down, she got her confidence back so she went and climbed the stairs and came down walking holding the rail.
Hopefully no more spills from her... my nerves are shot...
Ours has fallen down the concrete stairs at big sister's school *cough* more than once *cough* and she does it in this kind of slow-motion way. They're so small at that age they don't fall very hard or fast.
The number of times she's fallen off the back of the couch - a much higher drop - because she's copying her big sister doing something idiotic she's been told not to do 1000 times is much higher.
Big sister was once encouraging her to climb up a VERY steep set of METAL stairs to the office of our local builder supply yard. Had to nip that one in the bud. "but she waaaaaaaaaaaaants to climb up there"
When big sister is around we have a perpetually bruised, battered, crying toddler. When big sister is away for holidays we have surprisingly few injuries ...
RumpledElf the older kids are such a PITA when it comes to those sorts of things, am so scared of what Ava is going to teach Zara that said Ava is a bit of a tomboy and i think the stairs may be the least of my worries... once i found her CLIMBING her TALL BOY she managed to open 3 drawers at different intervals and start climbing...
Oh hun accidents happen and I am so glad that she appears to be fine, it is horrible when they take a tumble like that how are your nerves now?
DD has gone down one or two steps but not that many, she is very good at going up and down them, but we watch her all the time, unless she has done a runner for them and we don't see, we have a door between them and the living area that we can shut so she can't get to them.
We have a gate at the top, just so that if she is wandering around in the mornings when we are getting ready for work, or in the evenings we know she is safe. The gates are a bit of a PITA, but I guess a bit of piece of mind.
DD did the same with her tall bay, early morning start I was napping on her floor while I thought she was playing, only to find that she had opened the bottom drawer and then the second drawer and was sitting it it opening the third drawer I freaked out as I was right next to her
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that must have been so frightning!! is amazing how fast you can move when you kids hurt themselves huh
how are your nerves now?
I freaked out as I was right next to her
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