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Baby hypothetical
The kid has finally gone down for a nap after screaming for hours and you realize you need to dash to the store. Would you leave the baby sleeping in the crib to run a quick errand. I think I probably would and I'm wondering if this is appalling.
Re: Baby hypothetical
wtf do you need to dash to the store for? heart pills and if you didn't take one, you'd die within the hour?
I really can't think of a reason I'd leave my baby sleeping in the crib to "dash to the store." H could always pick something up on his way home, and maybe I'm just lucky enough to have tons of family/friends in the area to help if I needed those heart pills.
I would not, but I have considered it.
There is a pizza place about 300 yards away from our house -- I could walk there and never lose sight of the house. I've considered running down there for pizza after Ian has gone to bed, but I get delivery instead.
I would never.
I worry about how I will even walk the dog when I am home alone with the babies. I plan on locking the door and taking the baby monitor to go 100 feet away so the dog can pee.
Eh, I walk the dog on my street where I'm never out of sight of the house. I can clearly see the front door.
I'm not going to lie. The thought of just leaving him sleeping to run up the street to the grocery store has crossed my mind, but I'd never actually do it.
I don't think I'd run to a store while Miles was asleep, but I did leave him in the house every day to take the dog out while on mat leave. I never went far and was back pretty quickly.
Bermuda, how are you feeling? I hope all's well!
I am 99% sure I see my neighbors going to the pool that is two blocks away without their 1.5 year old kid.
Sure, there are several things that could be happening that I am unaware of. They could have somebody in their house when they go. But, the past several weekends, I have seen them walk to the pool, just the two of them. I see them return about an hour later. I then see them, with their kid, walking back to the pool about ten minutes after that. This I side eye.
And, let this be a lesson to you. Vinny is a very nosy neighbor.
I'd be a little tempted to go knock on their door to borrow some sugar or something
I can see a lot more potential problems with going to the store than leaving the kid in a car at the gas station. What if you got into a car accident and had to wait for the cops?
I will do yard work and sit on the deck and other outside stuff while the kid's in the house, though. As long as I can walk to wherever the kid is within 60 seconds and they're confined to a crib or PNP or strapped into something, it sounds fine to me.
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I have so been tempted to do this.
No, I walk him up and down the entire street. Right now, it's so hot outside that's all we would be doing anyway.
Have you never watched Nancy Grace? this *** happens man.
do you have a monitor?
I could totally see J and I sitting outside on the deck with our monitor while Pickle is sleeping.
I mean, I'm not advocating standing next to the kid's crib and watching while they are sleeping. But running to the store seems to have too many factors that I'm just not comfortable with, at all.
No, we take longer walks but if I was home alone with the babies the walks would be just quick pee breaks until someone was there to keep an eye on the babies so we could take a longer walk. Once I leave my house I can't see the front door, even from just a few feet away because it's a side door and the houses are all set up high on a hill.
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For me, it is the grand "what if" scenario. You never know what is going to happen, so I would rather just avoid any of it.
The one big concern I have (aside from the, I'll be murdered/car wreak/held hostage) is that on a few random occasions, Andy has stuck his foot through the slats of the crib. Ordinarily, this isn't a huge problem. He gets it out, no harm done. However, there have been a couple of times, in his sleep induced haze, he can't figure out how to get it out. He will start to scream and freak out. We respond really quickly to that. I just don't know how badly he would hurt himself if he was left for a significant period of time.
OK, but your kid can get stuck in the crib if you're out in the backyard, too. I think if I'm hanging out there for an hour, sure I'll take the baby monitor. If I go out on the deck to grill some burgers and I'm out there for ten minutes (anything longer than that, I'd close the grill and leave and come back), the same things could happen that would happen if I walked my theoretical (HA!) dog to the end of the block and back.
But I currently live in a neighborhood where I would let older kids camp in the backyard without an adult out there with them (EFF THAT, I'm sleeping in the house), and would let them run all over creation by themselves during the day.
Christin, you live in reasonable walking distance from Shop N' Save. If you had car trouble you could walk home and be there within 5 minutes. My main reservation would be what if there was an accident and you couldn't leave.
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Well I am just thinking about my situation in NY but it will be fall/winter while I'm on leave so I will have to bundle up two kids, get them in the stroller, get the huge double stroller down 17 stairs and then get Lucy.
Sometimes he's asleep, and it's not worth it to wake him up. Generally, Monty is really good about just peeing right away if that's all we're going outside for, so it's not really a huge issue for me. If I want to let him stretch his legs, I can just pick up the baby and walk the street but not terribly long. Even small, they get heavy after more than a minute or two, and it's not worth breaking out the stroller.
Right now, my biggest issue with taking him outside is that it's 102? outside. Once the weather is nicer, you'd better believe Ethan will be taking long walks either in the stroller or wrap.
um, this is the reason all GOOD moms get rid of their dogs, right?
in theory, something bad can happen to a baby with me standing right there. I think I'd feel more guilty my whole life if it happened while I was "out getting the newest People" or something.
And I also live in a neighborhood where I'd let my kids "camp" in the back yard (it's high-fenced anyway) and ride bikes around and stuff when they are old enough. I'm not completely adverse to giving my kids the same sorts of independence I cherished as a kid. The thing with babies is that they start to feel insecure or untrusting if their needs aren't met within a reasonable amount of time, which could be detrimental. I plan on saving all my childhood scarring for when the kid can remember it.