Crawling on hard floors

Don't know if I'm overthinking this 😂 but my little boy is crawling like a maniac at the moment. We have hard laminate floor throughout our house. We live in a bungalow so its literally everywhere. We do have a huge rug in the lounge. But even still I just worry that he must be really hurting his knees, he has little bruises? Just worries me abit about long term issues.

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I know it's getting quite warm, but you could have him in lighter trousers with knee patches to give extra padding? You can even get the iron on kind to make your life easier.

You can get knee socks if you want?
Or make your own by cutting socks in half and super gluing dots to them.
I honestly don’t think you need to worry though. They’ll be running around and falling over soon haha
My boy has bruises on his knees too! I think if it hurt they would cry or stop.
We have laminate and wood and he doesn’t half slap around haha
They’re such a worry aren’t they! Xx

Baby's are more resilient than we are. Their skin is also soft, so bruise really easily. I have laminate flooring and my LG is all over it. We did get a 3cm thick play mat, purely for head bumps. Also, I found out that babies don't have knee caps when born and they take a while to grow... so, yeah. I still don't know what to make with that nugget of information. But kids gets bumps and bruises, it's all part of childhood.

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