Babies: 9 - 12 Months

Moms with wood or vinyl flooring

So, DD can crawl and pull up on things to stand now.  I don't want to just confine her to her playpen or playing in her VERY SMALL carpeted bedroom, but whenever I try to let her crawl on the wood flooring (its fake....its very slippery) she just ends up hurting herself and slipping on her knees and landing on her face!  So what do you do?  Only have limited places for your child to play?  Let them practice on the wood floor every now and then?  I feel bad that she doesn't get to explore more.

Re: Moms with wood or vinyl flooring

  • DS can't crawl in the traditional sense...he gets around by "crawling" backwards.  I try to keep him on the area rug mostly, but when he gets onto the hardwoods he just slides around on his belly.
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  • We just ordered some baby knee pads because all our floors are wood.

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  • We have wood floors downstairs in all rooms but one.  I let dd crawl around wherever.  When she 1st started crawling I was very nervous about the wood floor and bumping her head.  She acclamated pretty quickly and now is a pro.  I actually think its hillarious when she crawls on the wood because the way she glides her knees she looks like one of those crawling baby dolls I had when I was little.
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  • really...we have no rugs in our home only hardwood. I don't want any rugs either. I hope DD can crawl on them
  • We have hardwood and one rug in our living room.  The rest of the house, other than our bedroom & the nursery, is hardwood as well. 

    Calloway had no issues learning to crawl, pull up or cruise unassisted on the hardwood.  We do keep an extremely close eye on him, because slippage DOES happen, but he hasn't hurt himself.  These babies are super resistant, yanno.  

    Just let her crawl.  Watch her.  There's not much else you can do.  

  • I agree with Katie in regard to the crawling.  When DD started pulling up, I put her in shoes with a little traction on the bottom.  That has helped a ton.
  • We have hardwood in the living room and tile in the kitchen and I let DS crawl on both.  The first week or two we stayed on carpet, until I was confident he wasn't going to slam down on his belly constantly. 
  • We have absolutely no carpet. I think she'll just have to figure it out! Shoes are a good idea though... and baby legs for the knees.
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  • She'll learn eventually.  It took a lot of slipping and sliding before Jude could crawl on the hardwood successfully.
  • we have hardwood thourghout the main floor. I put one of those mat things down. So DS plays on that but of course he crawls everywhere and he doesn't mind the wood. They find their ways :)

     

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  • Does DD get really hurt? Cry? DS crawls all over the vinyl and hardwood floors. He slips alot less now that he's a pro, but we never confined him. But, he never actually really hurt himself from the slides....
  • DS is still army crawling, but I let him do it everywhere.  I think it's important for him to learn how to move on all surfaces, so he isn't limited in any way (except for the stairs).  I comfort him if he hurts himself (he currently isn't good at steering, and sometimes runs into chairs), but still allow him free reign of the downstairs. 
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