Moving house with a baby to a house without carpet

mufi

Davesnave said:

Yes, whatever happened to play pens?

They breached the little darlings' civil liberties.

Mickey666

thaddy said:

We had no carpets when our son was younger. Kids are resilient and adapt to their environment very quickly so it will be fine!

Exactly.  At the risk of repeating the Four Yorkshiremen sketch, half the children in the world would probably regard anything other than a dirt floor as luxury.  (OK, half is a guess, but you get the point).

AlexMac

jimbog said:

Not having a carpet reduces the chances of baby developing asthma and eczema

Spot on jimbog; you have reminded me, as Krämer, Oppermann, Ranft, Schäfer, Ring and Behrendt said in their fascinating study of child health in post-reunification Germany; "Differences in allergy trends between East and West Germany and possible explanations"  there were marked environmental differences between two otherwise genetically identical cadres of kidz.  It's been suggested that open fires, lack of fitted carpets, less processed food and communal nurseries in the East meant that "At the time of the German reunification in 1990, manifestations of most allergic diseases were less prevalent in East than in West Germany"

Or as Monty Python might have said "Ve haf wayz of making you breathless and spotty!"

oystercatcher

Dress baby in trousers to protect knees and he will be fine . It might help him to learn to walk a but quicker ! No worse than crawling about in the garden ....you do let him go in the garden I hope!

xylophone

Dress baby in trousers to protect knees 

Crawling babies use their hands as well..... the floorboards need checking for splinter potential?

KxMx

https://www.theworks.co.uk/p/garden-accessories/9-piece-soft-playmats/5033849042233.html

My cousin kitted out an entire room with these for her twins. 

davidmcn

Mickey666 said:

thaddy said:

We had no carpets when our son was younger. Kids are resilient and adapt to their environment very quickly so it will be fine!

Exactly.  At the risk of repeating the Four Yorkshiremen sketch, half the children in the world would probably regard anything other than a dirt floor as luxury.  (OK, half is a guess, but you get the point).

And even in cultures which don't have dirt floors, wall-to-wall carpeting in the UK style is relatively unusual.

kazwookie

See if the carpet shop has any off cuts you can have.

(what on earth happened in ye olden days)

[Deleted User]

That's what I'd do, either give the wooden floors a good hoover and mop and/or buy a cheap offcut of carpet (carpetright sell loads, even bigger sizes) and use that for a month in your main room.  It doesn't need to be thick, just a basic covering.

Look on amazon, they even do baby knee pads for crawling.  Gloves for hands if worried about splinters (although rare with floor boards, if they are of any age they will be fairly smooth)

macman

Just buy some underlay online and fit that (loose) yourselves. It'll provide plenty of protection, and will be less than half the price that the carpet provider or fitters will charge for it. Buy the door bars and grippers at the same time, similar savings.