Baby proofing - help please

[Taler]

Ok so am having to do lots of baby proofing as DD is now on the move!

Our coffee table, we thought, needed no proofing as it has rounded sides, but we realise the edges could cause damage if she tried to pull herself and fell.

So we have put pipe insulation along the edges and the only way to fix it into place is to use string (see pic).

But surely we can't live like this for the next however months??? The string will just get in the way of bottles, glasses etc.

What do/did the rest of you do???

If we don't use anything she'd just pull it off!!!

[curiousuze]

I think you're being a tiny bit nuts to be honest!

[meerschweinchen]

This is very sweet!
Pfb by any chance?

[MigGril]

Really unless it had really sharp corners I wouldn't bother she's more likely to cause problems with the string take it off.

[MigGril]

Oh and don't use any socket plug covers

[fledermaus]

Honestly I don't think she will hurt herself on those edges! However we did have to put pipe foam on the corners of our coffee table after DS almost took his eye out and just lived with it looking ugly for about 6 months.

[Buttercup27]

The foam itself us a bigger danger than the edges themselves. Babies/toddlers usually end up biting it and eating/chewing the foam.

[MigGril]

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[fledermaus]

Luckily it never occurred to DS to bite the foam!

[museumum]

My son would eat that foam.
We don't have a coffee table - there's no point as we couldn't put anything on it or he would grab and eat that too.
I'd just put it away for a few months years

[MiaSparrow]

Hahahhah! You HAVE a coffee table?!

[Bumpsadaisie]

TBH the whole idea of baby proofing always seems bizarre to me. We had a stair gate, that was it.

We never had issues with pulling TV, banging heads on corners, getting stuff out of cupboards or touching ovens.

Maybe my two are just v cautious!

[meerschweinchen]

Bumpsadaisie one of my Mum's friends was like this. She just couldn't understand why people needed to babyproof, and why people moved books off bookshelves etc. She'd say, but you just tell them not to touch! Then she had her second child....,and then she understood! You've done very well to have two compliant children!

[postcardofagoldenretriever]

We used a sticky corner bumper foam which you can get in packs on amazon (prince lionhart), and it's pretty good, though I dread to think what the table edges are going to be like when we eventually take it off..

[notaflamingclue]

My idea of baby proofing is moving contraband things out of DD's reach and making sure she doesn't fall down the stairs I haven't even got a stairgate. Well, we do have one but it doesn't fit our built by a clueless DIY idiot stairs and bannister.