Kneepads for crawling babies

[Tinkjon]

I would have thought these were a gimmick until we moved to a house with no carpet Poor little DS (8mo) has just started to crawl and his knees are quite red and sore already so I wondered about getting him some kneepads. Has anybody used these and what are they like? Do they impede them crawling naturally? Do they irritate the back of their knees? It wouldn't be a problem in the winter as I'd have just put thick fleecey trousers on him but with the summer coming up and him wearing shorts [ouch] I tried crawling on our kitchen floor - we have porcelain tiles which are 10 x harder than regular tiles - and it was agony!

[whomovedmychocolate]

His knees will toughen up in a few weeks. Will encourage him to get up and walk too. I guess you could fashion some out of reusuable breastpads and some elastic though.

[Tinkjon]

What a great idea about the reusable breastpads, but dammit I've just sold all mine!

Do I want his knees to toughen up though?! Can't they stay nice soft baby skin?

[whomovedmychocolate]

They will anyway, remember kids don't develop kneecaps till about two and a half so the skin naturally hardens. Sorry.

You could use nappy liners? Or even dusters I suppose.

[VictorianSqualor]

wmmc, thank the Lord!
I've been saying the kneecap thing for ages, but started to think i'd made it up!

[Tinkjon]

Dusters - now there's an idea, get my house cleaned whilst he crawls... "No, that's enough crawling in the dining room, come and crawl in the kitchen now... then along the hallway"

They don't have kneecaps?! Seriously?!

[whomovedmychocolate]

No, I faithfully dragged DD to casualty claiming she had 'broken' her kneecap when she fell because I couldn't feel it and they basically laughed me out of the department (which wasn't hard actually as she was running out of it having recovered from the slight bump in about ten seconds ).

[BroccoliSpears]

I didn't know they had no kneecaps. I shall squidge dd's knees when she wakes up.

[Kindersurprise]

I did not know about the kneecap thing and now they are too old, I cannot squidge them.

[Kindersurprise]

I meant, my DCs are too old, not the kneecaps. Although they are too old now as well.

Sorry, rambling now. You know what I meant.

And don't worry, OP. You DS will soon toughen up, our DS was crawling over the pavigng stones at that age. It did not seem to bother him.

Although I do like the thought of little mops on their knees.

[notsurenow]

No kneecaps? I'm sure dd's knee was digging in my side when I was pg. Maybe it was her elbow .

I stopped dd from crawling out of my back door since we've got breeze blocks down for steps but she was over a year by the time she got that far. It wasnt' really an issue. I suppose longer shorts aren't an answer?

[hillbilly]

Hmmmm - I think I will have to do the knee squidge test too when ds wakes up!

[Kindersurprise]

Right, I knew there had to a market for this

[MrsBadger]

if you are still worried, get a pair of your or DH's old socks, cut the toes off and in half to make a pair of baby-size legwarmers knee protectors...