How to prepare for crawling and weaning

Curious too, will need an advice soon too

I would get a playpen, we have one and still use it at 14 months despite her being able to walk. Always handy because whenever you can’t be watching them, you know they are somewhere safe with things that are safe! It’s also their own little space and helps with independent play. We have one of the larger square ones.
As for weaning, what we’ve done is use sleepsuits and vests that are stained already for her to wear while eating. Then it just all goes in the wash, doesn’t matter what she gets on it and can even cut off the feet of the sleepsuits to lengthen wear if needed. Saves SO much effort in removing marks from anything and covers everything of her unlike a bib . Have heard bibado and coverall are good but can be costly. I just used ones that were marked already and picked up some extras from Vinted that were satisfactory as they’re cheap as chips for them for plenty!

Weaning - stick as much as you can with the basics. Cups, cutlery, plates, high chair, etc. don't bother with special puree making equipment, you'll barely use it.

Crawling - a playpen has been invaluable for us but sometimes babies hate them. Depends on the kid. It's good to have a baby jail I think just so they have a safe space so you can go to the bathroom or whatever.

Honestly I think the best method of baby proofing is, rather than trying to think of everything, watch them and figure out what their "hotspots" are. Aside from the obvious areas of concern like electrical outlets. Instead of trying to lock every cupboard, see which ones they actually gravitate to or are a danger and go from there. If you try to do all of it a lot may be unnecessary.

Amazing, will get on with the shopping now then, thank you so much! ❤️

For weaning, bibs with sleeves. I liked the Close Parent ones.

For crawling, if there's anything particularly dangerous then babyproof it, otherwise wait and see what they get into.

For my first, the only things we baby proofed were cupboards with cleaning products. Taught him to go up and down the stairs safely himself so didn't feel the need for a stair gate. He regularly banged his head on all sorts but ironically never a single corner so I'm not sold on corner protectors personally. We did eventually put child locks on a couple of drawers that LO kept emptying, just because I was fed up tidying it up 10 times per day.

We did have a playpen for our second, different house and a lot more going on so this made life easier. Also ended up putting locks on the fridge and freezer when LO started opening it and leaving it open 🙃 but that was much older, around 2