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August 2011 Moms
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Can your baby open up doors?
We were hanging out in my room this morning and I closed the door so DS couldn't get out and get into something. He looked at the door handle and was trying to reach it. Luckily he's so short he's got a while before he's able to do that!
Which got me thinking...DD was such a tall baby and a late walker so it wasn't long before she could open up some of the doors in our house. The ones with the handle that you pull down were so easy for her.
What about you? Is your baby showing interest in opening doors? How much longer do you think you have...or have you babyproofed your doorknobs already?
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Re: Can your baby open up doors?
Yes! We have the lever-type door handles and for some reason they're slightly lower on the bedroom doors, so she can reach up, grab, and pull down on the handle. She has been opening and closing them for about two months. Really annoying because (a) I'm always worried that she's going to pinch her fingers and (b) the cat sneaks into the bedrooms when she leaves the doors open.
When we are hanging out upstairs and moving from room to room, I have something like this to put on the doors. I bought them at Big Lots for $1 apiece, they are great!
I have seen LO reach up for the door knob once or twice. She couldn't reach it well. I figure we have a month or so. We do minimal baby-proofing so no door knob covers here; our basement door is locked and our garage door handle is child-proof - she has free reign of the rest of the house.
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DS likes to open and close his door, but we have it baby-proofed so it won't close all the way. He hasn't discovered the doorknobs yet. My niece got part of her fingertip pinched off in the door when she was five, so I'm pretty paranoid about doors.
We also took the mechanism out of the knob so it's just a knob and can't stay shut - it has a lock on it, and I was worried he'd manage to lock himself in.
Our bathroom door doesn't always latch all the way and DD knows it so she prys it open from the bottom. I baby proofed the doorknob leading into the basement as soon as we got the handle things so we could get used to them. I just put a lock on the toilet so no baby proofing there, not that it would work because of the latch issue.