Would you leave the baby unattended to go to the gym?

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Anonymous wrote:PP above and so yes, OP in original AIA is indeed an asshole.

What if the gym goer strokes out? The gym has some sort of catastrophe...a car slams thru and kills you while you are on the treadmill? You stroke out while working out? I can imagine a million scenarios, easily. In fact, my baby is 20 and I have semi regular recurrent dreams where I can’t get to my newborn or I’ve forgotten that I had a baby and race home to my dorm to take care of her or have to take my newborn to my high school classes with me.

Being a cautious type combined with anxiety has made me a planner and a very responsible person.

I am a pretty cautious person too, but I wanted to point out that you could have a stroke while exercising in your own basement. Or even just asleep in your own bed. You could choke on something while home alone with your baby. Or slip on the tile while giving them a bath and they would be alone in the water. I cannot wait to get to the point when my kids can really understand and emergency and call 911.

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Just FYI, these types of posts are common on Reddit, and like 80% of them are fiction.

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Anonymous wrote:WTH? Is no one going to mention that it is illegal? He could lose custody completely and face charges for this. He is lucky his ex-wife hasn't reported him to CPS.

This is the reason I would not do it. Especially since he can work out the other 4 nights. It would seem like an unnecessary risk in front of a judge.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve worked out on my basement gym while my 9mo DD slept upstairs in a very large house. I only monitored through the camera system. As long as you can see hear and respond, I don’t see the big deal.

Not the same as a very large house unless you live in a palace. A decade ago, I was at home exercising in our basement (small house) when a small fire broke out in the bathroom upstairs. Exhaust fan and birds’ building a nest. Smoke quickly filled our home. My older child was able to grab her baby sister and flee out the front door. I made my way out the back. It was not possible to go up the stairs at all. If my baby had been alone, she would have died.

Ok but you also weren't able to save her, so how was what you were doing any better?

By the way, I'm really sorry this happened - sounds terrifying.

Never said it was better. My point is that having someone with the baby saved her life.

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I live across the street from my son’s kindergarten class and walk him to school given it’s a busy road. From front door to school it’s probably 150 yards. One day I left my 4 year old and 2 year old alone and the four year old walked out of the house to the street where another mom stopped and kept her safe. I will never do that again.

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Anonymous wrote:He is crazy to leave the baby alone; if he can't skip a workout, the baby could be placed in a car seat and carried down there with him.

Took much longer than expected for someone to suggest bringing a baby to the gym but nope. Look, if you can't do an activity due to a childcare situation, the correct response is to skip said activity, not shoehorn a kid into spaces that aren't appropriate for them.

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Oy. Read the reddit thread. This is not a little apartment gym down the hall, the guy has come back and said he has to go outside and it's 89 meters from his door. And his baby monitor is only audio. Wtf? No, guy.

https://www.reddit.com/user/Dependent-Mud/comments

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I lived in NYC during the blackout and it has spooked me ever since. In an emergency (fire, power outage, smoke) there is a mass exodus from a high rise building that can create havoc. Try getting to your baby on that thirty second walk while a stream of people are exiting in the opposite direction blocking your way, in the dark etc.

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I never would. If anything happened my guilt would be unbelievable. But I’m lucky that my gym has a kids zone and they love spending time there.

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Anonymous wrote:Not fine, legal, wise, and crazy. Baby could quietly choke or go into distress, or could be kidnapped, while a few feet away, think Madeleine McCann; add a distracted parent on a noisy treadmill. Nothing good will come of this. Illegal!

But that could happen while you’re downstairs in your living room, and if it’s so quiet that the baby monitor doesn’t pick it up, you’d never know...living room or gym.

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NFW and it's completely different from being on the other side of a 6k sq ft house. Guy has a heart attack on the treadmill and gets lucky enough for someone to find him and call 911--no one necessarily knows there is an unattended baby attached to this guy behind a locked apartment door somewhere else.

Same problem with "should I leave the baby in the crib to walk to the apartment mailboxes?" and "should I leave the baby in the hotel room down the hall to go to someone else's room" and every other permutation of this question.

The danger is not what will happen to the kid in the 15" or 40" or whatever. It is that you might not be in a position to get back to them.

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Yes, I would do this.

Our baby monitor works in our neighbors house (very small lots), and we will put baby to sleep and go next door as long as the monitor works. They will do the same as well.

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Anonymous wrote:Not fine, legal, wise, and crazy. Baby could quietly choke or go into distress, or could be kidnapped, while a few feet away, think Madeleine McCann; add a distracted parent on a noisy treadmill. Nothing good will come of this. Illegal!

But that could happen while you’re downstairs in your living room, and if it’s so quiet that the baby monitor doesn’t pick it up, you’d never know...living room or gym.

But in one case, you would go to PRISON and in the other you would not. Because one is ILLEGAL and the other is NOT.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not fine, legal, wise, and crazy. Baby could quietly choke or go into distress, or could be kidnapped, while a few feet away, think Madeleine McCann; add a distracted parent on a noisy treadmill. Nothing good will come of this. Illegal!

But that could happen while you’re downstairs in your living room, and if it’s so quiet that the baby monitor doesn’t pick it up, you’d never know...living room or gym.

But in one case, you would go to PRISON and in the other you would not. Because one is ILLEGAL and the other is NOT.

But the likelihood of this happening is vanishingly small. So you can live your life in fear, or you can weigh the odds and live in a reasonable manner not predicated on fear of unlikely occurrences.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not fine, legal, wise, and crazy. Baby could quietly choke or go into distress, or could be kidnapped, while a few feet away, think Madeleine McCann; add a distracted parent on a noisy treadmill. Nothing good will come of this. Illegal!

But that could happen while you’re downstairs in your living room, and if it’s so quiet that the baby monitor doesn’t pick it up, you’d never know...living room or gym.

But in one case, you would go to PRISON and in the other you would not. Because one is ILLEGAL and the other is NOT.

But the likelihood of this happening is vanishingly small. So you can live your life in fear, or you can weigh the odds and live in a reasonable manner not predicated on fear of unlikely occurrences.

How about just follow the laws? Your logic is how we end up with so many drunk driving fatalities.