The Lindam range includes baby monitors, bouncers, that easy-to-recognise curved bottle, a cot, breast pump, food warmer, sterilizers and safety products and gates. Once we’d selected the 14 best stair gates for our shortlist, our tester, Katja Lakha, installed them one at a time in her home.

If a child was to push on a gate at the top of a staircase and the gate moved, then they could fall down the stairs.

The stylish metal handle makes opening and closing with just one hand a breeze, the double lock safety feature, and the fact that the gate comes with two sets of mounting hardware to use in more than one place in the house. The most popular recommendations were pulled together to include in a longlist of approximately 30 stair gates, then whittled down to form our final shortlist. So, if you do have very narrow doorways to gate off, the Cuggl Wall Fix Extending Gate may be a better fit. The clever pressure indicator provides you with visual assurance that the gate is installed correctly, keeping your little explorer safe at all times.

Starting as a white noise tool to help your newborn settle to sleep, Hatch also becomes a comforting night light and a ‘time-to-rise’ sleep training aid for toddlers and preschoolers. Each gate comes with full instructions to help you reposition the gate when needed and you can find a how to video (linked below) to make the task even more straightforward. If you have creaky floorboards or haven't yet mastered the art of ninja creeping out of a sleeping child’s bedroom, a nightlight that can be controlled from the comfort of your phone is a big plus.

We recommend measuring from the narrowest point, usually the skirting board, and ensuring the gate you pick isn't wider than that. It is a fully customisable night light which comes with the additional features of white noise sounds and a built-in timer. It is important that you measure the opening of where you want to install your safety gate correctly. And since a gate that older siblings can’t open is a recipe for parental insanity, we’re happy to report that older children (probably from seven years old) will master the mechanism instantly, and younger ones (around four to six years) should get it with a little practice.

Some children struggle with nightmares or a fear of the dark throughout the primary years, and a night light can be a great help. After a testing period of several weeks in a high-traffic area (being opened or closed more than 50 times a day by none-too-gentle older siblings), an adult was unable to shake the gate out of position by more than a millimetre or so. In 'Parent' mode, the Shnuggle is ideal for night feeds and comforting your baby, with a subtle light that is far less likely to stimulate or wake them during nappy changes. If so, it's worth remembering that you will need a supply of replacements if the nightlight proves to be popular with your child. We also bought rubber cups for the wall and the gate is totally solid, you could never shake it loose.The mesh ones that you just need one hand for are better, some gates are ridiculous, we accidentally bought one that takes 2 hands to open so impossible when holding a baby. Unlike other gates, the handle is designed for single-hand use and isn’t ridiculously stiff, although sometimes our tester found herself using two hands because the squeeze-and-lift motion is a slightly unnatural one. lindam is a reputable, profitable and social responsible company with capacity to make a difference in the advisory and auditing business.