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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We hired a company to do a walk through and advise us on what to babyproof and to estimate the cost for them to implement their recommendations.  What they recommended seemed insane and like total overkill.  It was also going to cost several thousand dollars.  We paid for the walk through and said no thanks to them doing any of the install.  Fast forward 6-9 months and  I'm pretty sure every single thing they recommended we've either now done out of necessity or still need to do.  Our kid is everywhere, into everything, and often engaging in dangerous behavior.  Point being, the amount of babyproofing you need to do really depends on your kid.  We had to temporarily get rid of our family room coffee table (which has round edges) and I cannot imagine having a dining table with exposed square edges.  Our child hits his head on our kitchen table routinely, but all of the edges are round.  Can you at least cover your dining table with a thick table cloth for several months?  Better yet, pad and then cover it.  I initially thought it was ridiculous to live without our coffee table and didn't want our house taken over by the baby, but I am now grateful for all of the accidents we've avoided.   [/quote

A company isn’t going to come in and say “looks good, not much to do”. It’s like hiring a designer for a remodel and then saying, nope, nothing to touch here. Baby proofing stage actually doesn’t last that long. We lived like nomads during that time - abroad, serviced apartments, hotels, vacation homes, and never baby proofed anything beside covering a few tables with towels and gating the stairs. We moved all the dangerous stuff in cupboards to the high ones. If we didn’t want them in a particular closet or cupboard, we just told them no, which took a lot of repetition. Never had anything besides normal bumps and bruises. So, it totally varies by kid, by family, and environment.

I will say, don’t pad everything. If you do, your kid will treat your house like a bouncy castle and when you go anywhere else, they will have no common sense and will crash into everything. They have to be safe, but experience at least a few consequences. It’s a good thing for them to be told “No, you can’t open that cupboard”, and “No, you can’t climb on that table”, even if you have to repeat it a million times. Otherwise you can’t take them anywhere that isn’t bombproof. [/quote]

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