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when she got mobile. we lived in 600 sq ft so i didn't want to deal with all of it before we had to. and we moved when DD2 was about 8 months so we added cabinet door locks to the kitchen.

@MaryM: the way our house is set up I was able to put a baby gate to the kitchen. Once they were allowed in the kitchen I put locks on the cabinets with stuff they shouldn't get in to. I wouldn't worry about it until it's needed. Once the baby was mobile it was easier to see what kind of things needed to be done. No sense in shelling out money for it and then not really needing it!

@MaryM: We plugged outlets within easy reach. Anything high: Nope. Anything in their room or out in the open in our room/the living room/kitchen: Yep. If it's behind furniture, it's not plugged.

I would definitely wait until the baby is getting mobile, and at that point cover outlets, put whatever locks you’re using on any low cabinets that have poison or other sharp or dangerous things in there, and gates if you need them. I’m definitely more of the camp if not doing tons of baby proofing and instead showing them what they aren’t allowed to do. Neither of my kids got into very much though but at the same time it’s not like we have stuff they could have gotten into and hurt themselves (we have2 locked cabinets: one that has bleach in it which is the only chemical cleaner we have, and another that has tools and light bulbs). We use a gate at the top of our stairs and briefly had one at another set of two steps that led onto stone floors until our littlest one was about 10 months and consistently crawling down then safely backwards.

hahaha 28 weeks pregnant baby proofing?! That's a little premature.

Agreed with the others that we did it as she got mobile and based on what seemed necessary. We recently had to add doorknob covers at 2.5 bc she learned to open them (and lock!). So just did things as they came up.

The one thing I would definitely do now is to attach any heavy but tip-able furniture to the wall because it is kind of a pain to do but extremely dangerous and you don't want to put that off.

Not until they were mobile. And we did super minimal baby proofing. Outlet covers and we did cabinet locks for #1 but never bothered for #2. We keep the bathroom door shut and neither kiddo has been a door opener. 28 weeks means three more months of pregnancy, and then kids are MAYBE semi-mobile at 6-7 months.... that's a lot of unnecessary time dealing with child proofed cabinets and outlets and door knobs!

We did as needed. For my DD, we didn't need to do gates or locks on cabinets or anything. We just did outlet covers and even then did she rarely touch them.

For my DS, he gets into everything so we did it all. remember around 8 months, he would try to pry the outlet covers out Door covers, pantry locks, cabinet magnet locks, outlet covers, corner guards on all the furniture, gates, etc

After she started crawling, before she started walking. I agree with others - there may be VERY little that you actually need to do, depending on your kid's personality. I think the mandatory things are outlet covers and gates for unsafe areas (stairs), and anchoring furniture that could tip over. Most of the rest of babyproofing is just moving breakable things out of reach.

28 weeks?! LOL... no. We got gates once he could move enough that we worried about how quickly he could move towards the stairs. We never did outlets cause he never cared about outlets. We did cabinets around a year cause that's when he started getting into everything. And we did the fireplace sharp corners around 12-14 months when he was learning to walk but they fell off after like 3 days so I didn't bother to replace them.

We mostly did it as needed, so it was a slow upwards progress - floor and bottom shelves first, then middle shelves, then counters, then... pretty much everything. I think the only thing we did beforehand was put away the nice glassware, because we didn't use it every day anyhow.

We plan to do it as needed, but I just had to comment that I love your approach to putting your personal life in a project management system. I have a reputation for my spreadsheets!

My kids are super into everything and not easily distracted. We mostly have been baby and now toddler proofing as we go. BUT we did make sure the dressers and bookcases were attached to the walls right away. That was something I just didn't want to risk. Cabinet and closet locks ended up happening pretty much as soon as DS1 was crawling.

Things I didn't expect to need to do were move the knife rack and get rid of the stools at the kitchen bar. Knife rack turned out to be reachable and the stools were too easy a way to access the kitchen counters.

Our apartment is small. We keep the kids out of our bedroom and everything else is baby safe. It's been %100 worth it to make a space where I am not having to say NO all the time...

We’re doing it as we go. LO is 6mo and we haven’t had to baby proof yet, however the gate will be going up very, very soon.

Um never. We just adjust things as needed. The only thing I really did was make sure that all chemicals/cleaning supplies type stuff was completely out of reach before they were mobile.

@MaryM: We didn’t fully baby proof, but did move items such as glass or sharp objects once she became mobile.
She has her ‘hot spots’ in the house she frequents, bottom shelf in kitchen, hallway desk, shoe tray... we let her ‘play’ with things that aren’t really toys, but as long as we don’t make a big deal about it she’ll investigate then move on.