Disappointed. Hard and rather worthless.

I have hard wood floors. I also have a baby. Babies fall and babies bump their heads. She spends a lot of time in our living room so I ordered this rug pad 8 months ago. Before I reviewed this rug pad, I wanted to use it for a significant amount of time. First, I am shocked by any review that would call this "plush". This will not soften your rug, it is INCREDIBLY hard and tough. Is my rug thicker now? Kind of. Is it any less hard when I'm walking? No. Is it less hard when my baby falls? To be honest, not really. This will not make your rug feel nicer or any softer. It will just make it slightly thicker. That, alone, was a little unfortunate. I kept telling myself, "well at least it's protecting the hard wood floor". My baby will fling her sippy cups around and although they don't leak much, some water will spill out. More often, my friend will spill a beer on the rug. We clean the rug but felt better about having this rubber backing. Like idiots, after something spilled, I don't know how many times we actually checked to make sure the pad caught the liquid. We probably had about four spills until we checked and we were SHOCKED to find that the liquid seeped through my rug and RIGHT THROUGH THE RUG PAD. What on earth is this for, then? It doesn't soften the rug when you're sitting or crawling on it. It doesn't protect my baby when she bumps her head (no more than the rug would without this pad) and it doesn't protect my floor! I paid decent money for this and it was a complete waste. I'm so sorry I bought this rug pad. I'm giving it two stars because it really doesn't slip. That's a positive.

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