Izzy can now go up and down properly and (I hOPE) safely so I have taken the bottom one down...but reckon I should leave the top one on there and just close it when she is in bed...they are wooden stairs and quite slippy - ok with bare feet but awful with just socks - not that she sleeps in socks, but still I dont feel like taking that one down!

I was quite surprised she hasn't been charging up the stairs all day - she only goes up when I do or if I am up there and she comes to tell me something

i havent had one at the bottom of the stair for about a year now, still have the one at the top but dont use it! i was suprised when i got rid of the bottom one that lilly didnt keep going up the stairs! xxx

well done Izzy, big girl now I daren't take our gate off at the bottom, Cerys would be upstairs like a shot and be nosing through everything I suppose I could put it at the top of the stairs but after her recent fall off a picnic table I think I'll wait a bit longer xx

What a good girl she is. We haven't had our stair gates on the stairs since Harry was 1, only because it put a hole in our wall, so we had to train him not to go up by himself. He does now when we go up or down he follows but hes got it down to a fine art now he doesn't even hold on to anything. I still go in front of him coming down though just in case lol xx

I think I am gonna do the same as you Lisa and remove the bottom but keep the top one for a while longer xx

Now the issue is my little furbuggers - I thought i'd lost Biggles today - he was kipping upstairs!

C is safe enough mostly though she did take a slip the other week and tends to dawdle on the way down but i wont bother taking the gates down cos im gonna need em again soon. I may think about leving them open a bit more soon though...just as i need to think abot shutting them again probably lol. Maybe I should just teach her how to open em...

braden can open them... i think we would have taken them down about a year ago if it wasnt for dita, but i guess another year and they can all come down! We have one at the top of the stairs thats completely different so neither of them can open it! x

We only ever had one at the bottom as we taught ellie to get up the stairs as soon as she started crawling. We have one at the top but that's just because I like to keep her up there with me when up there for a while as if she was to go down stairs she'd get up to all kinds of crisp eating, biscuit munching, ice cream licking types of mischeif.

We havent had any stairgates on for about a year now. But I can see why you would want to with wooden slippy stairs.



Aimee does however have a gate on her room door, so that she cant just wonder out in the middle of the night.



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We are gate city!!!



Isla is as good as gold on the stairs but she causes mayhem everywhere, and Jess is mooching and climbing now, so hey ho



Gate world it is for now xx

I had to put mine back up when Hannah started crawling - she is obsessed with the stairs and would probably sell you one of her kidneys for a chance to play on there. She can go up and down safely but she's a little too brave for my liking so I don't trust her like I did Thomas - this kid has no fear! I will probably have to keep it on until she's 16 knowing Hannah

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