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Just some advice :) We have always had the wooden baby gates to block off our living room from the rest of the house. It has worked fine, but my mother-in-law just two weeks ago stepped over the gates like we do, instead of removing the gate and going around it. Her shoe got caught on the gate and she fell and broke her wrist at our house and had surgery last week. I would highly suggest a gate that is swinging with a latch instead. We are in the process of looking at those now. We need several, as we do have stairs. I feel awful about what happened, but they are a must. We just have the wrong gates for people coming over to visit. We can get over them without a problem, but it was not smart on our part to have them with other people around. If they don't remove them and walk over them, then there is the risk of what happened to us last week..Just a thought! I am not sure of the cost of all of them, but I have seen these types of gates in the $20-something dollar range in ads and on the internet. I know they go up from there. I hope this helps you. I found some on babycenter.com and did a search for them and found reviews. The reviews will really help you decide on gates from people who have already used them. HTH!!
