...so it is essential that all gates are closed after use and Babychair agrees.

We have removed the babygate from the bottom of the stairs and this one will be refitted at a later point to the top of the stairs, when we move Babychair to a real bed.

We have previously bought a much wider gate for the french doors off the living room but they took up far too much space in that room and we have decided to replace the wide gate with a rollerblind one in summer if we feel we still need one on that door gated.

So the large heavy wide gate has been in place in the downstairs hall for a few weeks now. Working well enough as a baby gate despite needing to be properly anchored to the walls due to the size and weight, or so we thought.

This afternoon I was cooking in the kitchen, watching Babychair playing with her toys in the hallway. She walked to the barrier, without heistation pulled the gate away from the wall at one end, walked though the gap, turned around and carefully pulled the gate back into position against both walls !!!

LOL, I wonder what Babychair thinks about the gate, she understands it needs to remain closed but doesn't realise the aim is to keep her on one side of it.

Bless her, needless to say the gate is now firmly and permanently attached to both walls.