https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 12 Nov 2026 08:49:57 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/babys-first-injury#post-2480906 Tue, 01 Mar 2016 23:58:06 +0000 Mrs.KMM 2480906@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@winniebee: DD was the same! When she learned how to pull up on things, I frequently found red marks on her forehead where she had bumped into things. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/babys-first-injury#post-2478271 Mon, 29 Feb 2016 09:58:44 +0000 josina 2478271@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>At 15 months he's had soo many injuries including a couple fat lips and a black eye, but mostly for minor things like face planting on his own.<br /> On halloween this past year at 11 months he was standing and leaned down to touch a pumpkin and half-fell (I had him with one hand) and his cheek scraped the pumpkin stem! It was so bad, bleeding and sooo red, and was the day before family pictures! Took a couple weeks to completely heal. Who knew a pumpkin could do so much damage! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/babys-first-injury#post-2478239 Mon, 29 Feb 2016 09:43:02 +0000 snowjewelz 2478239@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DD fell down some steps around 13 months :sad: She was totally fine but I was a wreck! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/babys-first-injury#post-2477391 Sun, 28 Feb 2016 08:17:09 +0000 Applesandbananas 2477391@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm sure it wasn't the first, but very memorably, an hour before his one year well baby check, he banged his head on a table and had a giant red goose egg. I was so embarrassed taking him in like that but his pedi was so nice about it, cracking a joke about how all parents want to bubble wrap everything at this stage (he was trying to cruise/walk). He was totally fine, just a small bruise for a couple days. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/babys-first-injury#post-2477389 Sun, 28 Feb 2016 08:14:16 +0000 Smurfette 2477389@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I just remember when she first had blood. She was maybe 14/15 months and it was after bath. She walked out of the room into the hallway. Then walked back and slipped somehow, the floor wasn't wet, she hit on the step stool. She busted her lip open. She was calm pretty fast running around like normal while I am on the phone with the nurse if I need to bring her in for stitches. Of course DH was out of town. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/babys-first-injury#post-2477360 Sun, 28 Feb 2016 06:17:31 +0000 Charm54 2477360@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We didn't lower the crib in time, and DD managed to pull herself up (had no idea she could do this) and fall out of her crib head first Onto the hardwood floor :shocked: :shocked: :crying: </p> <p>I watched it all happen on the video monitor , bolting into her room just as she fell. I rushed her to our Dr and thankfully she was fine! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/babys-first-injury#post-2477339 Sun, 28 Feb 2016 01:10:01 +0000 Mrs.Someone 2477339@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS bit through his lip a week ago, it was awful :( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/babys-first-injury#post-2477330 Sun, 28 Feb 2016 00:20:08 +0000 skipra 2477330@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Poor guy! LO1 went down a little slide at the playground maybe just before a year and somehow managed to tilt to the slide and hit his lip on his tooth. Blood was everywhere! LO2 was in the yard and I had to grab something from the car. In that minute, he climbed up the 3 steps to our deck and was climbing down backwards when he went off the side. He got a fat lip and gouge onn his forehead that still shows a scar. It was over the summer so about 15 months I'd guess. I'm sure these were not the first injuries but we're the first bloody ones which is why that stand out to me.</p> <p>Kids are a lot tougher than we give them credit for so I'm sure your LO will be 100% in no time! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/babys-first-injury#post-2477326 Sun, 28 Feb 2016 00:08:16 +0000 mrsbubbletea 2477326@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My little guy got hold of the cord from the internet router and pulled down onto his nose. From about my head height, he was on the couch. I was totally being negligent and on my phone :(. I felt so terrible. Hit him square on the nose so even though it didn't break the skin, it made an instant horizontal "dent" that became a scab for a few days! One nostril had a tiny bit of blood too. I was worried he was gonna get black eyes but thank god, he did not! I think this was about a month ago and he's 14 m. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/babys-first-injury#post-2477324 Sat, 27 Feb 2016 23:56:58 +0000 GoGoSnoGirl 2477324@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Poor little guy (&amp; mama!). :bummed: </p> <p>DD pitched herself backwards out of my arm (I was holding something else in the other :sad: ) at 4mos I think it was &amp; did a back flip landing face first on the concrete floor. I thought sure I'd ruined her, but she checked out ok at the Dr. It was traumatic for me &amp; I'm not sure I've yet forgiven myself! I know she'll have injuries, but the risk of a head injury at 4mos just rocked me, so I'm so much more careful while holding her now. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/babys-first-injury#post-2477321 Sat, 27 Feb 2016 23:33:45 +0000 Foodnerd81 2477321@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@macintosh: outdoor play safety is hard. When she was little I felt like such a helicopter parent following her around but you start to figure out where they are safe and where you need to be right on top of them (my kid mastered stairs early on but the ladder is still dangerous). But my daughter wasn't an early walker so I think she had a little more sense at 13 months than an early walker does at 10 months. And she tends to be fairly cautious. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/babys-first-injury#post-2477272 Sat, 27 Feb 2016 21:57:55 +0000 AngelicOne 2477272@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Along the same lines of @alba4, on Wednesday, DS who is 15 months old, tried walking with his blanket and tripped. He fell into our oak coffee table and hit his forehead right above his eye. Luckily, he just has a red line &amp; a bruise from it. :( </p> <p>PS that table is being moved to the garage when we move next week LOL. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/babys-first-injury#post-2477269 Sat, 27 Feb 2016 21:54:21 +0000 Mrs. Sunshine 2477269@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DD1 fell off the couch around 8 months and hit her head. I was so so upset.</p> <p>Poor DD2. I dropped my phone on her head at like 2 weeks old. Then shortly after that (she was maybe a month old) she was laying on her playmat as we were getting ready to go out. I was walking through the livingroom room and tripped weirdly and stepped in her baby foot with my shoes and left a scrape. I cried as much as she did. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/babys-first-injury#post-2477268 Sat, 27 Feb 2016 21:53:07 +0000 Alba4 2477268@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I just remember one bad bruise. DS was a new walker (10 months) and he was running through our living room. He tripped over his own feet and landed right on our coffee table. He got a huge lump of a bruise above his eye on his forehead. Poor baby. We then moved our table down into the basement!! </p> <p>It was just the first of many bumps and bruises! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/babys-first-injury#post-2477264 Sat, 27 Feb 2016 21:47:56 +0000 macintosh 2477264@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@winniebee: Don't get me wrong, E has bumped his head indoors a thousand times, but it never left a scrape or a mark before :shocked: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/babys-first-injury#post-2477253 Sat, 27 Feb 2016 21:36:35 +0000 winniebee 2477253@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Haha no. Once R could pull up he was a disaster and got daily head injuries! I don't remember Ts first injuries either! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/babys-first-injury#post-2477252 Sat, 27 Feb 2016 21:36:10 +0000 macintosh 2477252@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: yes it was the rubbery soft surface! I had no idea it would scrape him. I feel like he's way more daring than I expected. I tend to let him do his own thing when playing inside but outside is a different story, I guess.</p> <p>On that note, any tips for outdoor play safety? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/babys-first-injury#post-2477247 Sat, 27 Feb 2016 21:30:26 +0000 Foodnerd81 2477247@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I can't remember when this happened but she was already walking- maybe a year and a half? We got to the park and she was so excited that she took off running and face planted on the rubbery grippy surface- which is great for avoiding broken bones but left such a bad scrape on her face. I felt so bad. I'm sure that wasn't her first injury but it's the first one that came to mind with your story. It happens to all of us. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/babys-first-injury#post-2477235 Sat, 27 Feb 2016 21:20:12 +0000 MrsRcCar 2477235@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>N's first injury was around 7/8 months. DH was playing with him at the picnic table and he bumped his head pretty good on the roof of picnic area. He was fine just a bit of blood. DH felt terrible.</p> <p>E's first real injury was closer to 2 years old. He fell and busted up the side of his face to follow it up with splitting his head open a few days later. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/babys-first-injury#post-2477230 Sat, 27 Feb 2016 21:17:09 +0000 macintosh 2477230@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Today we took DS to the playground because he loooooves to swing. He's not waking yet, but I thought he might like to try climbing on some plastic steps on the play structure. I set him down on the lowest step and instead of following me up, he tried to go back down and face planted on the ground! Poor thing has a scrape down his forehead and on his nose. It was so sad. He's only 10 months, so I should have stayed closer to him (now I know better).</p> <p>Do you remember your LOs first injury? How did it happen? </p>