Baby proofing

Those of you who’s babies are already crawling/climbing/cruising etc, how do you do the day with putting laundry away, cleaning the kitchen etc? What are you set ups? Which rooms have you baby proofed? Do you use a play pen?

My little one has just started lying to sitting and I think she’s probably close to crawling, and my front room is nowhere near set up for this 😅

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my little one is crawling and gets himself up onto everything, in the kitchen i just pop him in the highchair but rest of time he’s in the living room, i don’t use a play pen i just leave him to explore but tbh my living room is quite minimal and there’s nothing that’s dangerous to him or that he can hurt himself on x

I have an open plan downstairs and the twins are crawling and cruising - it's a nightmare! Cupboards have child locks but they're forever getting in the way when sorting washing/trying to get into the dishwasher whenever I'm loading/unloading it! I resort to the playpen (AKA the baby cage 😆) when they get too determined to be inside my kitchen appliances or when I need to fry anything!

I put baby gates on every door way and I put him sometimes in the door bouncer as he loves that or high chair with something to eat

We've got stair gates up, play pen in the living room and locks on all the kitchen cupboards. He's on the move and pulling himself up onto everything, trying to open the cupboard doors 🥴
We tried putting him in the highchair but he just gets fed up so he's got a walker thing that we sit him in and he rolls himself around the kitchen 😂 xx

Thank you everyone! I hadn’t thought about stair gates for the doors that’s a great idea!

definitely this! X

I have a stair gate on the living room door and on the stairs. Other than that he is free to roam as he pleases. If I am in the kitchen he just crawls around the kitchen. I feel it's how to learn. He can't open my kitchen cupboard or anything yet, but I have got some locks to put on them when I get a chance.

My little girl started crawling yesterday and we are not baby proof at all and it’s a nightmare! We have an open play front room so she is everywhere! We don’t have space for the big play pens so we’re just going to put a travel cot down stairs so I can put her in there when I need to leave the room! Xx

Does anyone have a heater they have managed to cover or make baby safe? X

I just put a baby gate between the kitchen and living room and then keep the door shut that leads to the stairs, other than that she can roam free, it’s really not as bad as you think it’ll be!

my friend put a play pen round hers. It’s worked well with her kids x

thank you!

Cat food and pot plant on the table, that’s about as far as we have gotten!

When I'm in the kitchen he just roamed on the floor... the low cupboards have plastic tupperware, pots and baking tins sometimes he'll open and explore in there... otherwise I just move him around with me. I've childproof the cupboards with cleaning supplies but otherwise he's free to roam wherever I am

I have open plan lounge /dining room/ kitchen. I added a baby gate with extensions to kinda separate the lounge off. I baby proofed the lounge and all his toys are in there. I can see him from anywhere downstairs but he can’t roam free. I have too many plants and animals for them not to have a separate space 😂

My little man is crawling and it’s a nightmare lol. I have baby proofed the lounge and put a gate on the doorway. So he’s in there playing while I wash up etc.
I will be getting more gates and also drawer and cupboard locks! As he loves to open them all when he’s in his Walker 🤦🏻‍♀️

It’s not quite baby proofing, but filling low drawers with things they can pull out (tea towels, Tupperware, etc) is so helpful. She does that while I wash dishes and we move to the next room. She is super excited about it and it’s easy to put everything back. We also do a lot of crawling room to room which I hope tires her out!

We just have a safety gate on the stairs. I’ve moved things I do t want broken and just created lots of ‘yes spaces’ around the house- that way she isn’t restricted and can freely explore all areas down
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Ok so for starters i know some of you are going to say omg omg omg super controlling omg leave omg. No im not doing that. Im happy he finally admitted his wrong doing and taking accountability for it but id like to know the deeper reason, the what the f has him thinking like this reason, the personality trait reason. He’s obviously scared I’m going to leave him; so much so that he’s doing this dumb shit to prevent it. Past trauma? What do y’all think I can do to get him to see I’m not going anywhere? I’m consistent already, I married him, we have a baby. He really is the love of my life. I have never loved another man like this before.. but this shit is for the birds and he thinks he’s keeping me doing this but in actuality it’s making me lose respect and detach.

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I come home from my errands that morning and he's upped and left. He took all of his belongings, clothes, drawer, tv- everything.

He didn't ring or text me or anything.

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He officially divorced me on Saturday.
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