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Help me with my baby gate dilemma
Here is a pic of the bottom of our stairs. I don't know if I should just put a gate at the top of the first landing or attempt some contraption to go around the entire lower portion. Suggestions?
#1 12.11.11
#2 10.23.13 EDD
Re: Help me with my baby gate dilemma
On the bottom 3 steps, can you put a gate on the 2nd step (middle of the 3) and then you can attach it to your wall on the left and the banister rail on the right?
I don't know if I'm explaining that well. Let me know if you don't know what I mean. You would just have to worry about the 1 bottom step being exposed for him.
#1 12.11.11
#2 10.23.13 EDD
I see what you mean and it's hard to see exactly how much room you have at the end of the lip, but I have a Safety 1st natural bamboo pressure-mounted gate that is maybe one inch thick. It looks like it would totally fit on the 2nd step there between the end of your step and the end of the banister.
I know, right. I'm not trying to be overly cautious about things because I know he's going to fall. I just don't want him to fall from very high.
Mr.D's uncle said we should just train him how to use the steps properly and then we won't have to use a gate (like they did for their kids). Um, ok, you come talk to my 10 month old and show him how not to take a header down the steps.
#1 12.11.11
#2 10.23.13 EDD
my friend has a similar set up and she has something like this and keeps it open and just puts it around the steps with a chair up against it. Not ideal but it is an akward space.
http://www.target.com/p/friendly-toys-little-playzone-with-sounds-and-lights/-/A-680886?ref=tgt_adv_XSG10001&AFID=Google_PLA_df&LNM=%7C680886&CPNG=baby&ci_sku=680886&ci_gpa=pla&ci_kw=
Honestly, I would probably just do a gate on top of the second step or the landing if you can, you will still have the bottom one or two steps to worry about but fall won't be as great.
And another tip of advice, my mom's house has a sunken living room so just three little steps, we taught Anna how to go up and down those steps. Seems crazy to teach them the thing you don't want them to do but I wanted her to know how to go up and down correctly rather than just barreling forward like she was doing. So now she knows how to go up them holding on and down them on her butt. Of course, she wants to go up and down every set of steps she sees because she thinks she can but that is another battle.
Jonathan Dean 4.5.08
Anna Capri 5.4.11
This is what we did. We showed him how to get off the bed and go up and down the stairs. We still have gates though, because I wouldn't let him do it without help/watchful eye. And he has fallen down the stairs and we ended up in the ER, but only once. I've lived there for three years and fallen down them too.
I don't have the time or energy to constantly watch my child go up and down stairs. We have no railing and he will not go down on anything but like a big person do it requires holding our hands.
That being said one step has asymmetrical fence in the catalog meant for stairways and hallways.
we have a landing with open stairs as well, and we ended up getting one of those baby cage fighting contraptions and stretched it across the entire room
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/547147_10151112843777347_2133284535_n.jpg
hahah I know! It turns out between the fireplace, stairs, tv and access to the kitchen, our living room is a death trap.
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#2 10.23.13 EDD