Our LO just turned 8 months and is a little pro now at pulling herself up and cruising along. She's starting to be a bit more of a daredevil with trying to cruise between 2 objects. She's gotten pretty good at sitting herself down gently or just falling onto her nice padded bottom (from cloth diapers). Occasionally though she''ll have more momentum and fall to her butt and then keep falling backwards. And then yesterday I noticed a bruise on each of her shins. She doesn't seem upset when she falls but I feel like I should put more padding underneath our carpet or something (it's over wood floors so its not the softest landing).
How did you deal with the learning to walk spills?
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we covered charlie's entire room and his playroom in foam mats, and we had a baby gated area in the living room with foam mats under it. but from 8 months on charlie hit his head A LOT. at the playground, in nonpadded areas... even though i was usually hovering nearby to catch him. it's just a part of learning how to walk!
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@Mrs. Bee: maybe I'll just get foam padding for under the carpet where she does the most cruising. Her spills hadn't really bothered me until I saw little bruises on her legs but guess it's just part of learning.
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Aww.. We covered the floor with foam mats. Once in a while she'll fall back and bonk her head.
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All I can say is thank goodness that my son learned to crawl in long pants weather. His little legs were covered with bruises from knocking into things and crawling on hard stuff.
Now that he is walking, it's a whole new level of falling. Sometimes he thinks something will hold him when it won't, like a plant leaf, lol.
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