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Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
If you have/had babies and hardwood floors
I have hardwood floors and now E is beginning to sit and crawl (army style LOL). I put a blanket down but it is not good enough and every time she rolls over I'm scared she will smash her head.
What do you put down on the floor for baby? I was thinking those giant foam puzzle pieces so at least there will be some padding down for her. Then a thick blanket over it if need be. Any other suggestions?
We had carpet in our last house so this was not an issue there.
Re: If you have/had babies and hardwood floors
nothing. we have all hardwood & tile. if it's what you have it's what they get used to.
The living room has an area rug. The "play room," (which is really just an extension of the living room) has some foam letters but is still the hard wood. The rest of the ground floor is hardwood...stairs and 2nd floor have carpet.
You think it'll be a problem but it won't be. It's not like you can put foam padding around your house. And believe me even now when his head hits the area rug there is a huge thunk....it's barely providing any padding.
When he first learned to sit up, I kept him on his crib quilt on the living room floor right in front of the couch, just in case he fell back. I'd also play with him on our bed & on a foam mat in another room.
Once he started crawling, though, the blanket made it worse b/c he'd slip on it or drag it along. So, he just crawled on the hard wood. It was actually better, imo b/c his bare feet got good traction to push off with + no rug burn!
When he learned to pull up to standing, but hadn't learned to fall down on his butt yet, that was the worst b/c he'd fall straight back. During that phase, I just had to shadow him & made sure we practiced falling on his butt a lot.