would you nip out for 30 seconds?

[Misslarue]

Hi everyone

I've thought about this myself and would like other peoples opinions...
A couple of times now I've needed to post a letter, the post box is about five houses away at the end of my road and I've always wondered if it's okay if I just leave Ione here and run and do it quickly.
So far I've felt too weird about it and took her with me, what would other people do?
The only thing I can imagine that could go wrong is that I could get locked out so I'd have to smash a window (unlikely) or I'd get run over and Ione would be left here alone until my husband came home and found her (again unlikely but this time better she's home than to be run over with me!)

I have another letter to send today, what do you reckon?

No I would def not leave Dan alone. I have a post box about 10 doors up from me and I always take him with me. For me it's not the distance, but the fact that I would be leaving my property and actually locking him in the house completely alone.

 

[Tangerinedream]

howcome everyone has post boxes near their houses... I have to walk 10 mins to my nearest one

 

[leckershell]

I've asked this to myself once because our nearest supermarket is over the road and I've wanted to pop out to get some bread and thought hmm if I make sure he's asleep...

But then I didn't because something about it just didn't feel right. Nothing is worth risking him for.

 

[Rubys mummy]

I couldnt just incase something happened to me and I couldnt get back to her

If I have to get petrol wehn she is with me, I go to Tescos, and pay at the pump so I dont hve to worry about leaving her or taking her in with me xx

 

[budge]

howcome everyone has post boxes near their houses... I have to walk 10 mins to my nearest one

i honestly cannot remember the last time i used one

 

[rusks]

am i the only one that leaves baby in the car while i pay for my petrol? i do lock my car i feel very i have to confess i do this regularly.

i also can be right outside my back door hanging washing out if he is asleep for up to 20 mins sometimes also, but i can hear him if he cries.

 

[Rosieroo]

I go to pay at pump

 

[Redshoes]

Our flat is set back from the road, there's like a little path and some grass, and when I go shopping I will take Isaac in first, get him settled, then go back out to carry in the shopping, I don't see anything wrong with that, if I had a house with a drive I'd still have to leave him somewhere, as I can't carry LO in car seat, and 5 bags of shopping

As for petrol, we have 'Pay at the Pump' here, so you don't have to go inside, but I'd never leave him in the car to go pay for petrol but that's just my personal opinion, I think we take educated risks all the time with our LO's, well I feel I do, like leaving him on the bed for 1 min while I go get a nappy or something, he could fall and seriously hurt himself, but he's not yet crawling so feel he can't move fast, I wouldn't leave him if I felt he'd be off in seconds

Unless you use the continuum concept there will be times you just leave LO, its all about risk assessment, and I can see how it will get harder as they grow too

 

[Urchin]

I use pay at pump too it's great

I pop to my car, which is parked on the slip road outside my house like 10m away, if Brody is in the house. Usually he watches me from the step or the window.

 

[cloud9]

I took bin out tonight i have to go to the end of my garden and then down alley...D was asleep i took monitor with me so i could here if her cried..when he was lilttle if he was asleep i hung washing out alone .

today i left D in car while i paid for petrol..locked car there was no queue and he had just fell asleep but later i went to the chipshop and though he had just fell asleep to many people around and people in queue so carried him in in his car seat so he woke up.


i like to get D out fpr a walk if i can and would see it as a reason to get out the house even if its only the start of the walk although our postbox is about 5 mins walk away aswell.


It also depends on things like do you have a partner...If A wasn't working away i would wait till he was home to put bins out etc. it isn't so easy when you ahve no time what so ever to nip to shop.

my concern are things like electrical fires can and Dylan has been puking day and night i would hate to think i had done something that could be done another way and left him in his own puke

 

[Rosieroo]

Redshoes I have to park in the road and it's safer for me to take in one little one at a time, instead of trying to carry DS, bags and make sure Ella doesn't dart out in front of a car (though our road isn't that busy).

Perhaps I have gotten complacent as time has gone on, or maybe because I live next door to my mum I feel more comfortable. But if one or the other little one is sleeping I will make the most of that and get out to hang out washing/get in the garden. So much easier than dragging both of them out there in this weather when DS has to be wrapped up in layers of clothes and put in the pushchair to hang out a load of washing. I wouldn't go out of sight of the house, maybe I feel safer where I live as I've lived in the area all my life? I think there is a big difference between what happened with Maddie Mcann and hanging out washing or nipping doors up to post a letter which would take all of 30 seconds.