So, let me get this straight...let your baby roam throughout the entire house all day?

in my life · April 2010

LOL I seriously am trying to understand this from my last post. Maybe I'm a lazy PT SAHM, but my LO gets into everything in every room of the house if I don't block her into just one "safe" room at a time. She will open doors/drawers and slam them on her fingers, find a fuzz to eat off the ground, play in the dog's water bowl, etc., etc. and she doesn't just hang around where I am. I've tried doing it but I end up being even more exhausted than usual trying to corral her.

We are putting latches on the kitchen drawers, but I feel like I would just have to hover over her 24/7, which is no fun for either of us.

BitterOldHag · April 2010

Nope. They stay in the living room/hallway. We close the doors to bedrooms and they don't seem to care about the kitchen yet.

kaylenpar1 · April 2010

BitterOldHag:
Nope. They stay in the living room/hallway. We close the doors to bedrooms and they don't seem to care about the kitchen yet.

This totally. She sometimes comes into the kitchen, but not very often. All her toys are in the living room anyways.

in my life · April 2010

BitterOldHag:
Nope. They stay in the living room/hallway. We close the doors to bedrooms and they don't seem to care about the kitchen yet.

Okay, I'm glad I'm not the only one. I cannot imagine trying to keep track of two though!

Chrysallys · April 2010

in my life:

but I feel like I would just have to hover over her 24/7, which is no fun for either of us.

This is my life and we are usually only in one room.

*KC*luvs*RJ* · April 2010

We have gates blocked off the kitchen and front hallway. We keep the door to the back hallway and bedrooms shut during the day. DS is kept i the dining room and living room that way.

1SwtWld · April 2010

Gianna goes all over the house. She's never in a room alone though. We're watching her constantly.

Mrs.Teddy · April 2010

I keep the bedroom doors shut but our main living area/kitchen is open concept and he likes the kitchen. I did the drawer thing and put a fridge magnetic toy up he likes. The only issue is the cat food. I am pretty much right there tho since its open concept. I wouldn't call it hovering, just aware since its a small space.

MrsBeckO · April 2010

I don't get what's funny about that.

We close doors to rooms that aren't safe and have baby-proofed the cabinets and drawers in the kitchen. The living room doesn't have any drawers/cabinets and we turned the spare room into a playroom - so all the open areas (living, dining, kitchen, her room, and playroom) are totally safe. She isn't all that mobile yet, but I kept my niece here when she was a toddler and if I had to be out of sight for a minute, she could go into any of the open areas freely. I was (and will be with DD) right there with her 99% of the time though, so she didn't have an opportunity to get into trouble/danger.

KrystalD7 · April 2010

I live in a 2 bedroom condo with a very open floorplan so all I have to do it close the bedroom and bathroom doors and she can safely roam.

She's at the stage where everything that is NOT a baby toy is so interesting and must go into her mouth (you know: power cords, shoes, brooms, rugs etc) and she is a very fast crawler so I find myself following her around a lot more now.

Sweetgurl6630@yahoo.com · April 2010

Yea. The bathroom and bedroom doors are closed and we have a one level house so no stairs. It's not hard to watch him and follow him around. He has two living rooms, the hallways and he hardly ever goes in the kitchen.

Erin5849 · April 2010

We shut the bedroom doors and the bathroom door to the toliet and then to the shower. That leaves the kitchen and living room. We can see the kitchen from the couch in the living room so we let him wander in there. I baby proofed all the cabinets that have harmful item (i.e. the trash or cleaning supplies or glassware). He likes to explore and open up cabinets and take stuff out so I left some not baby proofed that have tupperware or heavy pots in them (things he can't lift and hurt himself with) as well as a cabinet that has canned goods in it/pot lids. He has fun.

jbl126 · April 2010

Lauryn follows me from room to room on the first floor unless I close the baby gate. Then she crawls there and sits in front of it waiting for me.

amber_tynan · April 2010

He's not on the move yet, but we'll be putting up a gate between the kitchen/dining room, kitchen/hallway, and living room/hallway and we already have a gate up between the kitchen/mudroom. (The kitchen pretty much connects to all the other rooms on the 1st floor) His toys are in the living room and the breakfast area of the kitchen, so he'll have a large "L" shaped space to play when he gets mobile.

brownmouse · April 2010

Well, I have the kitchen?dining room gated off(well, I lay the kitchen chairs sideways, but just today she learned to crawl through them, so we're buying a gate tonight when we head to walmart), I close our bedroom door, and she can't climb the stairs so she is pretty much free range throughout the whole living room. The bathroom is in our room, and there is another in her room upstairs, so we don't have to gait those off since they're already.

katie_cj · April 2010

He doesn't venture too far away from me, so we mostly hang out in the living room/dining room which is open concept. If I go to my room, he follows me.

We are finishing baby proofing the kitchen and then we'll let him roam more.

Mrs.Greeko · April 2010

My first didn't. I hovered. With the second I just close the bathroom door, put a gate up so she can't climb the stairs and close the laundry room door with the dog's dishes in it. And then she roams. If she eats a fuzz on the floor, oh well, she'll survive. As for drawers/cupboards, we don't even have latches on those. There isn't anything dangerous in there (dangerous stuff is all up high in the laundry room). Before I turn her loose I give the house a quick scan to look for things that might be dangerous.

oohlalagirl · April 2010

DS gets the living room, kitchen and hallway. Doors to bedrooms and bathrooms are closed.

Just J · April 2010

We live in a california split, so there is no way to block off all the various areas. The dining room kitchen area is all open on the main level with the hall that goes to DD's room and what we have as the playroom right now. Sometimes I close these doors, sometimes not. Usually if I am around the kitchen, she roams these areas, if she heads down the hall, I follow, but she is safe in her room and the playroom "alone" with me peeking in every couple minutes. Our bedroom is on the top level, so if I go she goes. Same goes with the basement, but I shut the door to the office and laundry room.

cari12 · April 2010

We have a small, one floor condo. She crawls everywhere, but we have an open living/dining room floor plan and I keep all the doors down the hallway closed so she can only crawl in the hallway. We have one cabinet (the tupperware) not baby-proofed in the kitchen that she can get into but it's otherwise all locked up. All our outlets are covered, cords are hidden, etc.

Typically she stays in the living room area though, but she likes to crawl down the hallway and then back up the hallway a lot.

ljlkm · April 2010

Yup. There's not a lot he can get into that he shouldn't and I watch him constantly to make sure he doesn't get into those things.

MrsTeague · April 2010

She gets into everything, so I close the doors to the bedrooms/bathroom, and the kitchen gate is closed unless I am in there. She is free to roam the living room/dining room.

mfransdell · April 2010

Any room that isnt babyproofed (the bathrooms and the guestroom) have closed doors. The kitchen/dining/entry/living area is really open and there are no doors. I've put latches on everything so she cant squish her fingers, covers on the outlets so she cant pull out cords, and moved all other dangerous/heavy/unsafe things away. I vaccum way more than anyone should need to, boo! I'm almost always in the same room as her but If I have to run to the bathroom or grab her a bottle I know she'll be safe.

deeanneharris · April 2010

kaylenpar1:

BitterOldHag:
Nope. They stay in the living room/hallway. We close the doors to bedrooms and they don't seem to care about the kitchen yet.

This totally. She sometimes comes into the kitchen, but not very often. All her toys are in the living room anyways.

Same here. The living room/breakfast room (which are connected) are her areas. She is always in sight.

Kelli2507 · April 2010

BitterOldHag:
Nope. They stay in the living room/hallway. We close the doors to bedrooms and they don't seem to care about the kitchen yet.

this completely, and we have a gate on the kitchen to separate baby and dog

in my life · April 2010

MrsBeckO:

I don't get what's funny about that.

We close doors to rooms that aren't safe and have baby-proofed the cabinets and drawers in the kitchen. The living room doesn't have any drawers/cabinets and we turned the spare room into a playroom - so all the open areas (living, dining, kitchen, her room, and playroom) are totally safe. She isn't all that mobile yet, but I kept my niece here when she was a toddler and if I had to be out of sight for a minute, she could go into any of the open areas freely. I was (and will be with DD) right there with her 99% of the time though, so she didn't have an opportunity to get into trouble/danger.

It's not funny per se, and I can't leave the sight of C without her bawling, so yes, I am always there with her. That said she still gets into things I'd rather her not when we are in rooms other than her room or our living room. As I said in my OP, I just can't grasp letting her everywhere in the house 100% of the time.

mandolynn81 · April 2010

we are gonna put a gate in between the livingroom and kitchen and close the bathroom door, but other than that she stays in the livingroom. All the lower stuff is hers anyway, and I vacuum every day.

pink.dutch.tulips · April 2010

no

dh is pretty good about containing her to his office, her exersaucer, pnp and i'm pretty good about closing doors to rooms we don't want her to get into and keeping an eye on her re drawers.

now she JUST started to crawl ... looks like the puppy gates will make their re-appearance. not to contain the dogs (hee hee they'll just hop over the gates) but to contain dd !

heidismith · April 2010

S mainly plays in the livingroom, we have the kitchen gated off. But she has no interest going into my room or the bathroom, unless I walk in there.

thebeaverismyfriend · April 2010

Mrs.Greeko:
My first didn't. I hovered. With the second I just close the bathroom door, put a gate up so she can't climb the stairs and close the laundry room door with the dog's dishes in it. And then she roams. If she eats a fuzz on the floor, oh well, she'll survive. As for drawers/cupboards, we don't even have latches on those. There isn't anything dangerous in there (dangerous stuff is all up high in the laundry room). Before I turn her loose I give the house a quick scan to look for things that might be dangerous.

This is basically what I do. The space between the dining room and the living room is too wide for a gate (his toys are in the dining room). He spends most of his time in these two rooms. The kitchen is linked to the living room and the dining room (it's like a circle of door ways..does that make sense?) The spots where there are dangerous things are all covered, and he spends a lot of his time around where I am as I am always in one of the three rooms, and if I move, he follows.

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