Thursday night Emma locked herself in our bathroom. It was one of the scariest moments I’ve had with her. Just last week Scott and I were saying this was going to happen. Lately she has been closing doors. And often she closes herself in a closet, screams and I let her out. Thursday night I went looking for Emma because I didn’t hear anything (that alone spells trouble). Sure enough, the light was on in the bathroom, the door was shut and I couldn’t get in because she had also opened the first drawer with makes a block to the door. I could open the door about 1/4″ (maybe even smaller) but that was it. She wasn’t making a sound so I called into her. Nothing. I started panicking. I went into the closet and got a clothes hanger, just what I told Scott I would do if this happened and called Scott at work to tell him to come. I barely got the hanger in and somehow got enough friction on the side of the drawer to push it in. I still didn’t hear a peep out of her and when I got the door open she was sitting playing with a bag of makeup she had pulled out of the drawer. I was shaking all over for several minutes afterwards. I have no idea what we are going to do to prevent this. We need to have the door open the way our air ducts work and I think even with a drawer stop, it would still block the door. That can not happen again. My heart can’t handle it.
That’s pretty scary, huh? Try throwing a folded towel over the top of the door so it can’t close. That’s what we did with our girls when they were younger to prevent things like your story, and pinched fingers etc.
Great idea! I think I will do that!