https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:39:17 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-ever#post-1062716 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 14:57:19 +0000 heffalump 1062716@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This is why we bought the house we did with a fenced in backyard. I didn't want to have to worry about these things, I can just let the dog out back. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-ever#post-1062574 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 13:58:33 +0000 Mrsbells 1062574@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No I would never leave her to walk the dog, especially not a mobile baby because they could wake up at anytime, plus who knows if some creep has noticed me always leaving without my baby, they might try to do something.. I dont know I worry too much to leave her </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-ever#post-1062565 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 13:54:33 +0000 Foodnerd81 1062565@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@betsyboop: crap. Even though I posted this hypothetical, I just realized that I am going to be in this situation when Dh goes away for work in a couple of weeks. Luckily she loves being in the moby but three walks a day with the baby is going to be tough! Ugh. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-ever#post-1062508 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 13:35:50 +0000 Bao 1062508@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>To the front or back yard, yes. Any further than our property line, no. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-ever#post-1062433 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 13:20:05 +0000 shopaholic 1062433@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No. I would take the dog out to the front or back yard, but not on a walk. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-ever#post-1062375 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 13:04:39 +0000 betsyboop 1062375@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We live in a high-rise and DH won't let me take the dog out for a quick bathroom break if LO will be sleeping (alone) in our apartment. His concern is if some emergency comes up like a fire, LO could potentially be stuck in the unit. We end up boarding our dog whenever DH is out of town. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-ever#post-1062150 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 12:05:42 +0000 LovelyPlum 1062150@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsMcD: yes, unfortunately, dogs don't always pee when we want! But honestly, I don't think I would be concerned. Maybe I'm naive, maybe I just don't know what I have coming in a few months, but I genuinely don't see what the big deal is. The front door to our building locks automatically, so as long as I have a key, I'm not concerned about the others in the building. I know they're not coming to break into my apartment because I have left my keys accidentally in the lock all night long, car keys attached, and no one came in, stole anything, or took my car. I was HORRIFIED, and I would HATE to do it with a child in the building, but really, I live with generally trustworthy people. It's a small building, though, so maybe that's why.</p> <p>ETA: and maybe this is bad, but my thought immediately was, "oh, taking her out while the baby is sleeping sounds so much easier!" In our house, going out to pee often becomes an attempted squirrel safari, which sounds difficult while juggling a baby :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-ever#post-1062071 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 11:43:02 +0000 sslm 1062071@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsMcD: Dogs often don't pee on your timeline! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-ever#post-1062005 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 11:21:25 +0000 Chillybear 1062005@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>my only concern would be taking the dog and by accident forgetting my keys and locking myself out. I do this often and in college my husband (then BF) would make me "Show me your keys" before we left to go out. That apt had a door that automatically locked. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-ever#post-1061980 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 11:12:54 +0000 MamaMoose 1061980@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My rule on baby being alone in the house is that I have to have the video monitor with me and I have to be able to see the exterior of my house. So standing in my next door neighbor's front yard would be fine with me, walking around the block would not.</p> <p>I think I would be even more uncomfortable with this in an apt building though. I wouldn't like not being able to see the door to my home. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-ever#post-1061969 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 11:10:05 +0000 lovehoneybee 1061969@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsMcD: Well I imagine because the dog would need to pee and/or and doesn't use a toilet...</p> <p>Where I live, I think I would have been comfortable taking a dog out to pee around 6 months. It was about that time I started feeling okay leaving him asleep in his crib while I went to check the mail (~500 feet away), but only ever with the video monitor feed on my phone in hand. I feel like I might have been okayish with it earlier, but we didn't move him into his crib/get a video monitor until then...</p> <p>ETA: But my apartment has it's own entrance, so I only have one door to get through to get back to him (well two if you count the nursery door). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-ever#post-1061935 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 11:01:33 +0000 avivoca 1061935@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would walk her in the yard as far as the monitor would allow, but no long walks. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-ever#post-1061881 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 10:43:11 +0000 deactivated_account 1061881@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't have a little one, and I won't ever have any pets, so can someone please explain why the dogs must be taken out while the baby is asleep? Why not just wait until the baby is away and then take baby outside with you? I'm beginning to think I may become the most paranoid parent in the world when/if I do ever have a baby. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-ever#post-1061762 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 10:14:04 +0000 HLK208 1061762@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wouldn't walk the dog. I would probably only take it out to go and come back w/ the baby monitor. Oh and definitely when older, probably around 3-4 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-ever#post-1061751 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 10:12:23 +0000 Pink Champagne 1061751@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Small apt building and going to the front of it to let the dog pee? Sure, I'd do that. But nowhere that I wouldn't be able to dash up a couple flights of stairs in the case of an emergency. That would be when the baby was a little older (one month or so).</p> <p>I was terrified to let my baby nap out of my sight the first few weeks! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-ever#post-1061738 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 10:09:42 +0000 mrbee 1061738@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsMcD: Ah ok, for me leaving a big apartment building would also be beyond my comfort level for the first year or so. Then I might talk to Mrs. Bee about options.</p> <p>I think if you lived on the first floor, used a deadbolt and watched the front door of your building while not going more than a few feet from the front door, the odds of a snatching are about the same as the odds of a home invasion? But those do happen too, so point taken... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-ever#post-1061645 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 09:52:18 +0000 deactivated_account 1061645@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: fortunately my sane mind doesn't know how sickos perpetuate baby snatchings from homes. Nevertheless, i think leaving an apartment building for any amount of time and for any distance is treading on thin ice. I imagine there are a lot of entrances/exits and people coming in and out. I wouldn't trust a deadbolt to secure a lo's safety. All so that a dog could pee? Why not wait until the baby is awake to take the dog on a walk? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-ever#post-1061611 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 09:42:27 +0000 mrbee 1061611@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsMcD: How would a baby snatching scenario work? I'm assuming there's a deadbolt on the apartment door... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-ever#post-1061599 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 09:40:13 +0000 mrs. wagon 1061599@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I only go as far as the video monitor will go! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-ever#post-1061580 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 09:36:34 +0000 LovelyPlum 1061580@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We're in an apartment and will soon be in this position. We have a pretty secure building, and we're on the first floor, so I think I'd be OK letting the dog out behind the building to go pee. I figure, it is such a small apartment that we'd be much closer to the baby doing this than some people likely are on different floors of their homes! Plus, our pup would whine if she wasn't let out, so it seems like the options are a happy pup and sleeping baby or an unhappy pup and unhappy baby. Methinks the first one wins every time :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-ever#post-1061577 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 09:34:35 +0000 deactivated_account 1061577@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>What kind of apartment building are we talking about? Is anyone worried about this baby being snatched or just injured? I'm slightly freaked out by this whole conversation. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-ever#post-1061540 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 09:25:46 +0000 sslm 1061540@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would only go as far as the monitor would allow. I wouldn't feel comfortable otherwise. Luckily we have a yard so I can just let him out! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-ever#post-1061536 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 09:24:59 +0000 edelweiss 1061536@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>we live in a second floor apartment and my husband has taken the dogs out for a couple of minutes to pee/poo while LO was sleeping. he did this for the first time when i was away for the weekend and LO had gone down for the night. LO was well out of the newborn stage and in a reliable nighttime sleeping routine. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-ever#post-1061532 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 09:24:06 +0000 hilsy85 1061532@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would bring a dog out to the backyard or out in front of the house, but that's it. I would not leave an apartment with the dog if the baby was sleeping. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-ever#post-1061523 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 09:20:45 +0000 JerricaBenton 1061523@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If I didn't bring my dog out while LO was napping Id have a house full of pee! I figure I use the bathroom, clean, do laundry, etc. while she's sleeping. I just take the dog out to the back yard, he does his business and sniffs around, back inside in 3 or 4 minutes. I wouldn't leave the yard. If we're going to sit out there I'd bring the monitor. If I were running downstairs in an apartment, I'd probably bring the monitor. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-ever#post-1061293 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 08:03:36 +0000 Foodnerd81 1061293@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@debbiei8: use the bathroom, not a full long walk. </p> <p>Don't get me wrong- I'm not leaving my five week old alone in the apartment and taking the dog around the neighborhood! More wondering what people's comfort level is. </p> <p>At my parents house I'd bring the dog to the front to pee for a few mi utes because I'd be within site of the unlocked front door. For me the locked door is a big problem (like on a apt building). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-ever#post-1061275 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 07:54:27 +0000 T.H.O.U. 1061275@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Apartment building scenarios like this are so hard for me. It really depends on the building and the situation. </p> <p>If its like a high rise where you would have to lock the door, go to an elevator, go out the front entrance, find some grass, then probably not. </p> <p>If it were just three quick stairs right around the corner with a window or monitor that could reach, and grass right outside the door, then sure. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-ever#post-1061272 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 07:54:09 +0000 mediagirl 1061272@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was scared to death to leave her alone in the house at 5 weeks old. </p> <p>I'm in a house with a backyard I could let the dogs out into. IF the baby was downstairs in the family room and I could open the back door and let the dog out and keep an eye on both the dog (no fence, she's not a bolter) and the baby, I would do it. If the baby was asleep upstairs and I had the dog downstairs and she needed more than just pee, no way.</p> <p>ETA: I wasn't even comfortable running to the mailbox and back when she was under 3 months old and sleeping in the house. The mailbox is like 10 steps out the front door. My fear wasn't that I couldn't run outside and back quickly, it was that someone may stop me, want to talk, and all I would be thinking is "THE BABY IS INSIDE ALONE!" Haha. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-ever#post-1061271 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 07:53:37 +0000 mrsjyw 1061271@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>i wouldn't feel comfortable doing that. i'd be ok with going out to let them pee/poo for a few minutes, but not for a walk. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-ever#post-1061270 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 07:52:53 +0000 bookwormmama 1061270@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>By walk do you mean just to use the bathroom, or to expel energy?</p> <p>I live on the second floor of my building and I would probably bring my dog out to use the bathroom as long as baby was secure. My dog usually just goes in a small grass area we have, and then my husband and I usually take him for walks (to expel energy) in the evening. </p>