Crawling on hard floors

catskitch · July 2014

Now that lo is crawling, that's all he wants to do. We have hard wood all over and tile in the kitchen. On the tile, I hear his legs squeaking from the friction. I picked him play after a few minutes and his knees were all red. Do you use anything for his legs? I tried baby legs, but I'm not sure if it's enough and it's too hot to put it on.

MommyAmes2 · July 2014

I used nothing. C would even crawl on rocks. Those knees are tough!

catskitch · July 2014

Maybe his knees are tougher than mine. I know what I stand on my knees during yoga, it's painful.

azzy1206 · July 2014

I usually just fold her leg warmers in half (sometimes 3 times) over her knees. . I imagine it doesn't feel to good to crawl on hard floor we too have mostly tile.

Snowbird7 · July 2014

We haven't done anything for his knees, but we did start putting socks on him all the time since he developed a little blister on the top of his foot from rubbing on the hardwood floors.

We try to use the socks with gripper bottoms for when he's pulling up to standing.

nittanygirl28 · July 2014

We have carpet at our house but half of his DC room has tile floor so we send him to daycare in light pants, not shorts. Daycare is air conditioned so I'm not worried about the temp and I do worry about his little knees.

KMck27 · July 2014

When he was mainly crawling just let him crawl. We do have area rugs so they may have cushioned it a little. He tries walking more then crawling now, not sure of the hardwood influenced that or not.

catskitch · July 2014

ayanahazel1 said:

We haven't done anything for his knees, but we did start putting socks on him all the time since he developed a little blister on the top of his foot from rubbing on the hardwood floors. We try to use the socks with gripper bottoms for when he's pulling up to standing.

yea, I want to avoid the blisters. socks and baby legs it is

Ashesha13 · July 2014

We haven't done anything special and have all tile. It's probably a smoother crawl than hard wood so no blister problems here. His knew seem pretty good and crawling anywhere never seems to bother him. I think baby legs would be good for any rug burns or blisters but doesn't really take away from the hard surface.

KatyKatMeowz · July 2014

We have hardwood and tile, and haven't done anything special. He usually hangs out in shorts and bare feet or soft sandals, and it hasn't been an issue. We only puts leggings/socks on at my in laws. He gets rug burn from the carpets there.