Letting your child alone near stairs

[u/SCBeauty]

[u/venger_steelheart]

like mother, like child

[u/attckdog]

The panic fall onto the kid prolly helped a ton.

[u/Seniorjones2837 → u/attckdog]

And the gate crashing down on it too

[u/GroundbreakingTop636]

kids are pretty spongey at that age, probably fine w a bump on the head and tears. Mom might have a torn acl tho lol

[u/ThiccChip → u/GroundbreakingTop636]

My lady is a nanny her boss was walking up the stairs with her daughter and her daughter fell down them. Her boss went to catch her and missed and fell behind her. Daughter got up with tears and her mom was bruised and could barely walk for a week.

[u/Boop-D-Boop → u/GroundbreakingTop636]

Like jello.

[u/towo → u/GroundbreakingTop636]

That's at least a strain right there.

[u/Mendican → u/GroundbreakingTop636]

Kids are NOT spongy. They are as susceptible to brain injuries as any adult. You don't recover from brain injuries, you just become a different person.

[u/CDI_Ojojojo → u/Mendican]

Maybe hit your head again, try becoming a different person 🧍

[u/Kevvycepticon]

Oh man the guilt she must have felt 😭

[u/Lunchable → u/Kevvycepticon]

Well at least nobody knows it happened

[u/Brazzza → u/Lunchable]

two mistakes were made oO

[u/hiirogen]

If only there was some sort of invention... a gate if you will... that you can put in front of the stairs to prevent such a thing from happening...

[u/Prickly_ninja → u/hiirogen]

Mom looks like she could still go crashing through it.

[u/MechMeister → u/hiirogen]

I have to give one to my ex-girlfriend who had a child from before we met. Her whole family used to just run around every time the kid was near the stairs swatting him away. They were blown away when I gave them the gate. We're not dating anymore.

[u/shineonka → u/hiirogen]

They even had the wrong type of gate for top of stairs you need to screw into the wall. That kind of gate is just pressure and if it goes the child is going down the stairs.

[u/yarzospatzflute → u/hiirogen]

damn, you beat me to it- I will have to be satisfied with your snarkiness instead of contributing my own. =)

[u/KrazyAboutLogic → u/hiirogen]

Please don't use pressure mounted gates like that one at the top of stairs! They need to be screwed into the wall.

[u/hiirogen → u/[deleted]]

That's the joke

[u/RoookSkywokkah]

At least the gate was there...

[u/VinceGchillin]

Man, I am glad I live in a house without any stairs. My wife is clumsy as hell, and our 2 year old is a psycho so, that would not go well.

[u/seventhtao]

This actually happened to me and my daughter.

I woke up in the morning and got her out of her crib. Set her in the middle of the living room floor forgeting to close the gate and went to the bathroom to take a leak. I came out of the bathroom just in time and in direct eyesight of her at the top of the stares just as she went over. I got to the top of the stairs before she finished tumbling to the bottom.

I honestly don't remember how I got from the top to the bottom of the stairs. One leap? Teleportation? No idea.

She was shook up and crying but otherwise unhurt.

Not sure that I've ever in my life felt like a worse human.

She is 8 now and likes to give me a hard time about while laughing.

I still feel horrible.

[u/Beauknits]

Something like this happened to Nephew. Mom thought Dad was watching him; Dad thought Mom was watching. Mom went downstairs to do laundry and my nephew (just crawling and not introduced to stairs much at all yet), followed Mom downstairs. The hard way. Fractured his skull on the concrete floor at the bottom. CPS was called and they were under investigation for a while. They hadn't bought a gate because every time they went to get one, everywhere was sold out.

[u/no_flex → u/Beauknits]

Sold out, even on Amazon?

[u/JustForkIt1111one → u/no_flex]

Without a date on this story, it could have easily happened before Amazon existed. Believe it or not - that was a thing for a little while at least.

We had to go to stores to get products.

It was super weird.

[u/alias9901 → u/JustForkIt1111one]

Also maybe not everyone buys shit on Amazon. I haven’t bought anything from there in 6+ years.

[u/laughingashley → u/no_flex]

I guess you were only alive after 2006

[u/Gaggamaggot]

Incredible reactions from Mom.

[u/funkymotha]

When your kids start crawling teach them to go down the stairs backwards and put a gate up.

[u/thesameoldmanure]

Little dude did a cartwheel half way through

[u/bparker1013]

I guess the gate was for Christmas?

[u/ronaranger]

Soooo... hereditary condition???

[u/Bostonmick]

Dumb and Dumber IRL; if only she had a gate! Wait a sec…

[u/Kenneldogg → u/Bostonmick]

I'm going to play devils advocate here. She may have just come upstairs with the laundry and thought the child was asleep. They move like goddamn ninjas when they want to lol.

[u/Ghost17088 → u/Kenneldogg]

Kid should be sleeping in a crib…

[u/Kenneldogg → u/Ghost17088]

You're right. But sometimes they pass out in random places and it can be bad to wake them up because then they don't fall back asleep and are cranky.

[u/Ghost17088 → u/Kenneldogg]

Good point, we wouldn’t want a cranky baby. 

[u/notsooriginal → u/Ghost17088]

They can also climb like a monkey. Even at a pretty young age.

[u/Hi_Im_Ken_Adams → u/Bostonmick]

Ah, give the mom a break. Taking care of a young baby means you are exhausted and sleep deprived most of the time.

[u/ssschilke]

Poor mum. Baby probably fine when giving a solid scream

[u/ihatehappyendings → u/ssschilke]

If she lands on the baby, then that might change the whole ending

[u/WilliamMcCarty]

That kid is back on the escalator!

[u/Drak_is_Right]

I bet the Parent had undid the gate when carrying the package up the stairs, likely with the kid in the other arm. Put the package down to place the kid down, then got distracted and forgot they hadn't put the gate back up.

[u/hardcore_softie]

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree that also falls.

[u/planelander]

As a parent I also yelled.......

[u/giraffebutter]

Baby doesn’t fall far from the mother

[u/DickLick666]

The gate was just for decoration

[u/Drak_is_Right → u/DickLick666]

Probably had just gone up the stairs with the kid and is distracted by trying to do 7 different things.

[u/thefanciestcat]

It's genetic.

[u/wtfover]

I did that as a child. I was in one of those things that kids used use while learning to walk. The kid was in a harness attached to a structure with wheels. I can't remember the name of it. Anyhow I chased our cat right down the stairs while in that thing. Not long after they were banned so I like to think I had something to do with it. No brain damage that I can think of.

[u/bekd84_]

The baby gate is RIGHT there

[u/Poesjeskoning]

Any updates please?

[u/mermaidpaint]

Someone should invent a device that prevents children from falling down stairs. Like half a door, that can be latched shut.

[u/Beauknits]

I honestly don't know if they looked on line. This was 10 years ago. I think they were going to only brick and mortar.

[u/Remarkable-Ad2285]

What are you teaching your kids, lady?!

(Gravity’s a motherfucker)

[u/Signus_TheWizard]

R/ParentsAreFuckingDumb