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Indian Summer
And I thought end of August was difficult to get through. Everyone was away, calls went unreturned and projects languished. Now, I'm afraid the beginning of September has been infected by the dregs of last month.
A wedding present I bought in a fit of efficiency for recently eloped friends remains undelivered, in spite of my having had dinner with them last night.
I keep forgetting to give this Irish smoked salmon that I have (it's all vacuum sealed, so stop worrying) to my parents who will love it.
There is a lot on my plate, but I can't seem to shed the late summer tendency to focus on little flyaway things and worry them.
For instance:
Felix is seven months old and is not a cautious child. He sits and crawls, pulls himself up on things and people and tries to shrug off all restraining and cautionary hands. He does this on the floor and he does this in bed.
So tell me, If he is standing up and clinging to the bars of his crib (which, yes, is on the lowest level) now, what do I do when he decides, as I fear he might, to climb out?
I know there is no such thing as a terrarium top for cribs, and since those things frequently don't work very well with hamsters and gerbils anyway, I can't imagine they'd be much good against a creature with greater determination and opposable thumbs.
Any ideas? It's a long way down.
posted by Elise at 4:24 PM
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Grease the bars with Vaseline?
And on an actual serious note, put something very soft on the floor by the side of the crib--maybe a mattress. And, of course, raise the bars on his crib.
The good news is, if he does it once, he probably won't do it again.
9/11/2005 6:45 PM
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there are toppers you can get for cribs. They look like a screen tent with a zipper on the front that attach to the top of the crib. My aunt and uncle used these for their twins, and the kids thought it was great. they liked to go in their little "house", and falling out was never a problem. perhaps baby's R us would have something like this, or look online.
9/12/2005 11:46 AM
Local Egg said...
Or you could go old school, and, like my grandparents did to their youngest (and most adventurous) son, tie him in.
Horrifying, and, yet, funny.
9/12/2005 2:04 PM
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When I was a baby, I learned to climb in and out of my crib. I can't remember how my parents felt about it, but I never got hurt (at least that I can remember). Hum... don't know if that's helpful at all.
9/12/2005 2:47 PM
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I know someone else who had this problem ... their child kept climbing out of the crib. They bought a bunch of bean bags and floor pillows and put them on the floor next to the crib so that the baby would land on something soft when he jumped out. When the kids get older, you can use them for seating.
9/14/2005 6:51 AM
Elise said...
Thank you for all the answers.
Local Egg, that is the second interesting, perhaps unwise, use of string I've heard about or witnessed this week. I saw an interesting bike scenario in which a father had tied a long string from the back of his bicycle to the front of his kid's (kid also had training wheels) and the two were careening northward on the park that lines the Hudson River. This seemed rather dodgy, and strangely homespun in a moment when there is a contraption, approved by Underwriters Laboratories for almost everything, possibly even for something that will hook father and son bikes to each other.
9/14/2005 2:52 PM
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