XP: Hard wood floors and crawling

carolinakiwi · January 2011

I also posted this on the 0-3 month board.

Does anyone have hard wood floors in their home in the main living areas? If so, what are your thoughts about when your LO is able to start crawling?

We live in a townhouse and have hard wood (actually high quality laminate) downstairs. We have one rug in the center of the LR, but it's just slightly bigger than our large coffee table and so the rest area (LR and entryway hallway) is not covered by any rugs.

We installed the hard wood floor 3 years ago, but now I am actually starting to miss the coziness of carpet. We have carpet upstairs, but I am not sure if I will want to carry LO upstairs every time for most of the daytime activity period just so that he can crawl.

I am trying to decide if we should bite the bullet and install carpet in our living room so that DS can learn how to crawl comfortably. We are downstairs about 95% of the day.

What are your thoughts on hardwoods/carpet and crawling?

MNgirl326 · January 2011

You want to spend thousands of dollars to install carpet, so your LO can crawl comfortably for a couple months before he learns to walk?

We have hardwoods and LO is fine. He wears pants most of the time, since it is winter, and we have a couple large area rugs that are his main play space.

jennygirlmt · January 2011

Oh god no! It will be fine. We are about to change from carpet to a high quality laminate. It will be so much cleaner than carpet (it holds so many germs and dust). My nephew happily crawled on my parents' real hardwoods and I think laminate has a bit more give. And if lo is unhappy maybe walking will happen faster

dafodils_lament · January 2011

DD isn't crawling yet(she's getting close I think)but we have wood floors. We also have a large playmat that she plays on and rolls on. Babies crawl,walk,etc on all sorts of surfaces so we aren't going to put carpet in just to have her crawl. We like our hardwoods and have no carpet at all in our home.

Dreamsicle23 · January 2011

abartow:
You want to spend thousands of dollars to install carpet, so your LO can crawl comfortably for a couple months before he learns to walk?
We have hardwoods and LO is fine. He wears pants most of the time, since it is winter, and we have a couple large area rugs that are his main play space.

THIS! I don't mean can to offend, but this is one of the worst ideas I've ever heard. Why can't he just crawl on the floor? Just keep him in pants so it's easier on his knees.

carolinakiwi · January 2011

Thanks ladies. I was reminded on another board about those kid play mats that I can use if I am concerned for his knees at all.

But you're right....maybe he'll start walking sooner too. :-) My mom said that I barely crawled and started pulling myself up and walking very early.

STAR15 · January 2011

We live in a 1915 house with original hardwood floors. LO is just learning to sit up, so she often topples over and smacks her head. We just got a 9x12 peanut rug from a carpet store. It's basically the end of a carpet roll that they don't have enough of to sell, so they finish all the edges and sell it as an area rug. It was $120. I love it so far. Gives LO just enough cushion, and if we want to get rid of it, we can just roll it up and take it out.

MJ5678 · January 2011

We have hardwood floors throughout our house. I have a few area rugs and runners down our hallways. DD seems to be doing just fine. I'm not too concerned about it.

Ecarr38 · January 2011

I agree with the other posts about not worrying about the floors; however you asked for advice, so mine is to keep your floors as they are and buy some leggings for your LO to wear if he isn't in pants. I found some at zulily.com that were 1/2 off, but you can find them at https://www.babylegs.com/ also.

GL and I am scared too about the floors and my LO's but they are fine, and the sound is worse than the bump of the head with laminate b/c of the material and the underpad. Sometimes, I cringe when I hear their head hit the floor when they roll over, but it doesn't even phase them.

HIH

ertopp · January 2011

i was worried at first too when kylie started crawling because our ENTIRE downstairs is hardwood or ceramic and we have NO area rugs. so we went out and paid 25$ at toys r us and got one of those rubber puzzle piece floor mats and put it in our living room. thats where we put all of her toys.

she struggled at first because she would slide on the floor. but after like 2 or 3 days she was a pro. she now follows me everywhere no matter what the floor is like! LO will be fine!

kirkette · January 2011

We have hardwood floors. LO crawls just fine. She wears pants or baby legs, and goes about her business.

GSwans · January 2011

We have hardwood throughout and it is NOT an issue. They are both just starting to crawl. Buy a cheap foam playmat. We love ours, and you can make it as big or small as you want (interlocking squares) and wipes clean. You can bring it out and put it away whenever you want.

g8trkim · January 2011

We have wood floors and crawls all over them. It's actually not that hard of a surface (much softer than tile). I wouldn't worry about it. The only thing I will say is it's slippery so we don't put socks on him at home because when he pulls up it can be a little dangerous.

blissfully_caffeinated · January 2011

I have hardwoods. Ds is fine. He doesn't even notice that it's hard. He'll be fine.

Daisy41459 · January 2011

Our whole house (minus our bedroom) has hardwood floors. We just have several area rugs down and also bought DS one of those foam ABC playmats (haven't used it yet...hoping to put it out today).

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