Post by aprilludgate on Jan 2, 2013 23:26:05 GMT -5
Wow, I can't even read that. So sad.
When my sister was around that age she pulled her dresser over on her trying to turn her TV on. It was much bigger than this dresser, but thankfully it didn't land on her where it was hurting anything and everyone was awake and came running. All of our furniture was bolted to our walls very soon after that.
Omg I can't imagine. Omg. I couldn't finish reading. My furniture is not secured to the wall. Only my bookcases are. Now I wonder if my house is a death trap.
Holy shit. It never even occurred to me to bolt a small dresser like that to the wall. DS' dresser is about that size. I will get DH to secure it to the wall ASAP. This is so heartbreaking and I don't think I could live if that happened to DS. Thanks for posting this.
I'm not going to read it, I just can't, but a friend of ours is a fireman and was adamant about strapping our furniture down when I was pregnant. He said he's had a lot of calls with this. :-(
DD1 almost pulled her dresser over on herself a few months ago -- luckily I had a bookshelf positioned so that if it fell, the bookshelf was close enough that it would fall on that first and be propped up; all she got was a conked noggin and a fright.
It scared the hell out of me. I called DH in tears, and he came home and strapped that thing to the wall so securely that we'll probably never be able to move it without leaving huge holes in the drywall.
We also just mounted our TV on the wall, well out of kid-reach, so now I won't worry about that.
I couldn't make it all the way through that blog entry. OMG. That poor baby and her poor family.
If I read it correctly, the little girl pulled the drawers out and it was enough to make the whole thing tip over
This is what my DD1 did. Her dresser is a three drawers-by-three-drawers one, long but not particularly tall, and she was opening/closing drawers while I was in the next room. She opened too many at once and with the weight of the drawers + clothes in them, the dresser tipped forward.
Ugh, I just finished crying from reading that earlier from FB. That poor family and little girl. The mother's pain in her post... My heart just breaks for her. So unbelievably sad.