Falling Over

Hey, my little girl fell so many times and now at 16 months, she’s even worse, she started walking 3 days before her 1st birthday and I was petrified, now she throws herself around and constantly bumps herself. I know exactly how you feel, I’m paediatric first aid trained and I’d hate to ever use it on her. You’re more than qualified to know what to do for your daughter, trust your instincts x

Falling and hurting themselves sucks for us to see I know but it is part of their learning, do you have carpeted floors where she usually falls or hard wood? If floors are hard then a soft rug or something like the padded jigsaw things that you can spread across the floor can help soften the fall a little but otherwise the best we can do is let them try and learn and be there for them when needed. Obviously that doesn't mean let them clearly injure themselves but they're resilient and its surprising the bumps they can take sometimes.

I remember one time my kid fell of his little ride on that he'd gotten when he was 1 so only small but the thud when his head hit I rushed over and picked him up and asked him if he was ok and he just gave a bit of a grumpy 'yeah' so i rubbed it better and gave him a kiss and put him back down and he climbed straight back on it giggling away and tried to do a wheelie again 🤦‍♀️🤣