My Daughter is so accident prone!

[Texan Mouseketeer]

My poor poor daughter. She's 16 months old. I should post a picture of her forehead right now. Last Friday she was running at daycare and tripped and fell into a wall, bruised her forehead. Tuesday she fell off the little plastic slide and gave her forehead a huge goose egg and another bruise - right by the first one. Then, yesterday she was running with one of those push cars at daycare and fell and hit her forehead (again!) causing yet another goose egg and bruise. Good grief! She did this once over the summer and still you could feel a mark on her forehead where it happened. I don't know why she does this so much! We're taking her to the doctor today to make sure she's okay and complaining like crazy to the daycare. I realize she does a lot of this on her own, but I question about the slide being in there. Seems like she isn't old enough to be on that yet. They said they're looking into taking the slide out. I'm not used to this at all. My son never did this kind of stuff. My son didn't walk until 14 months, I don't know if that has to do with anything or not. But I'm at work just dreading getting a call from the center on what she's done to herself today!

 

[FionaLovesShrek]

My DD was the same way. In fact we nicknamed her ****oo. She would walk right into walls! She was always so involved in her own little world she didn't even watch where she was walking, or bending over ( I can't tell you how many times she would bend right over to reach for something on the floor and knock her forehead smack on the coffee table). To this day, she still gets her fair share of Boo Boo's, because she just doesn't pay attention to her surroundings. But on the flip side, she is a very gifted child and her mind is constantly at work. And she hates the nick name

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Look at her shoes.

Usually when my dd's would fall I knew it was new shoe time.

 

[FionaLovesShrek]

That's weird, it bleeped out the nickname. It's Boo Boo.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

That's weird, it bleeped out the nickname. It's Boo Boo.

You can't string it together because of the word it makes.

 

[Texan Mouseketeer]

That's weird, it bleeped out the nickname. It's Boo Boo.

That's funny! I was thinking what four letter word are you calling her with oo at the end!!!

 

[Texan Mouseketeer]

Look at her shoes.

Usually when my dd's would fall I knew it was new shoe time.

Great idea. I'm going to check as soon as I see her. I wonder even if they do fit if maybe she just needs some sturdier ones?

 

[TerryKitten]

Honestly, its just the way they are. I asked the doctor at DS 15month check up because he was hitting his head in the same place every time he fell. He said unless you want to put him in a helmet, don't worry about it. Just do the cold compress, tlc, etc. Keep an eye on them to make sure they arn't acting strange afterwords. Its just them learning their balance, where their body is when they move around and to move around in all situations. I think its the reason why a once perfect head gets lumpy

They can bump their head on everthing doing anything. The slide, triping over toys, walking, sitting, rolling, etc. The last head bump was him spinning and the floor came up and hit him. At least thats the look he had on his face after he hit the floor.

 

[mrsv98]

DD was like this, she was really disproportionate for a long time. Her hight and weight were in the low 20% and her head was in the 95%!! Any time she leaned forward, smack! down she would go. DH wanted her to wear her bicycle helmet all the time!

Now she is 5 1/2 and is finally growing out of it but there were many times she looked like the walking wounded!