Would you let your baby crawl here?

[WeepyNsleepy]

1. In your own home: in the bathroom
2. On the lawn in your own garden
3. On the lawn in a park or public green space
4. On the ground of a public playground
5. In your own home in an area where people wear outside shoes
6. Indoor play area for older children
7. On the beach
8. Any other place that might not seem immediately obvious bit turned out to be baby crawling (and parent heaven)

(Assume that you are supervising your baby.)

Just curious what other people think is ok. With DD I was over protective and didn't let her crawl in any of these. Now with my second I don't want to make the same mistake (of being over protective) but am genuinely wondering if I'm overlooking some serious health or safety issues.

I let my babies crawl in all those places

Yes to all

And I'm really sad you didn't let your DD crawl outside at all.

I hope you're seeing a doctor for your health anxiety. You poor thing - it must be exhausting being so worried all the time.

All those places, wash hands afterwards!

1. Yes
2. Yes
3. No
4. No
5. No I never let people past the hallway in shoes anyways
6. Yes
7. Yes

I'm mostly ocd about outdoor spaces I always think what if an animal has peed here if a dummy drops outside it's put straight In th e bin other people will think I'm ott but it's such a phobia of mine even with my own personal items. Do whatever makes you feel comfortable though the crawling phase doesn't last that long and then they are walking which is much easier to deal with.

Mine crawled in all of those places

Mine crawled in all of these.

Yes to all except maybe 4 depending on what kind of surface it was.

So you never let your baby crawl outside a house at all? Surely it was exhausting having to constantly stop them?

All of those apart from the playground or soft play for older children and only then as I’d worry he’d get trampled by overexcited toddlers 😂.

Yes all of those places

Yes to all of those places. I grew up with a mother with phobias around germs and it has taken me years to unpick the legacy but I got there in the end.

In your own home: in the bathroom No
On the lawn in your own garden yes
On the lawn in a park or public green space yrs
On the ground of a public playground um think I did yrs
In your own home in an area where people wear outside shoes yes but most house shoe free
Indoor play area for older children yes
On the beach yes
Any other place that might not seem immediately obvious bit turned out to be baby crawling (and parent heaven)

I i find it of when

All except 4

Yes.

Yes to all. The only time it would be a no:
Stony beach due to choking hazard
Lots of litter in playground
Looked filthy

I find it particularly sad a child isn't allowed to crawl on their own front lawn.

Yes. I let them crawl anywhere. They're nearly all adults now and it doesn't seem to have harmed them.

Yes to all of these except the bathroom floor, but thinking about it it's just because we keep the doors shut all the time and babies can't climb stairs 😂

Yes to all apart from maybe the playground if it was tarmac with loose stones etc

People like to be competitively filthy and cool with this kind of stuff.

In your own home: in the bathroom - not really necessary, but OK if there are no cleaning fluids around.

On the lawn in your own garden - OK if you watch carefully. My brother ate a snail.

On the lawn in a park or public green space - no way. Dog shit.

On the ground of a public playground - no way. Broken glass in ours, plus dogs allowed to roam inside them by idiotic owners.

In your own home in an area where people wear outside shoes - I'd rather not but not the end of the world.

Indoor play area for older children - my dd's arm broke when crawling and an older one stepped on her. So no.

On the beach - no - sand in eyes horrible.

Any other place that might not seem immediately obvious bit turned out to be baby crawling (and parent heaven). Don't know.

No @rnsaslkih it's not about being cool. It was about not carrying my child for a year of their life.

My children are teenagers now who are vey very rarely ill. So my filthy habits don't seem to have caused lasting damage

Yes to all of them.

In your own home: in the bathroom
yes

On the lawn in your own garden
yes - in the summer

On the lawn in a park or public green space
yes - in the summer

On the ground of a public playground
probably not because it would be hard

In your own home in an area where people wear outside shoes
We don’t wear outside shoes much inside, but yes

Indoor play area for older children
yes, if baby wasn’t going to be in the way of the older children

On the beach
yes- but watching for them eating sand!

Any other place that might not seem immediately obvious bit turned out to be baby crawling (and parent heaven)

The only one on your list I would have been unlikely to is the outdoor playground, because they tend to be quite gritty IME. Otherwise, I wouldn't stop them unless a specific issue eg marauding older children in softplay or heavy rain had made the grass really muddy. To a PP, my DD2 loved a snail if she could get her hands on one and stuff it in her mouth before we noticed. She appears to have survived her unusual snack choices (she also had an obsession with cat biscuits and wasn't averse to the odd handful of sand on the beach) unscathed both mentally and physically. She still likes snails, but these days only when swimming in garlic butter 😬

I think yes to all of these, tho I would check the playground or park for dog poo tbh.

Ds2 was a demon crawler and I doubt it I could have stopped him. No shoes in the house anyway. The beach is great for crawling - dd on her first trip aged about 11mo crawled right through a rock pool.

re eating snails and the like - ds2 once picked up and ate a Haribo off the pavement. I’m fairly relaxed but even I would have drawn the line at that, but I was too late to stop him 😂

Yes to all.

Also as a childminder - yes to all.