Any of Your Children Do This?

Hurt like dead? No. Hurt like stitches? Very very rarely. Hurt like bumps, bruises, split lips, and mortally wounded pride (we ALL know that cry)... absolutely.

What's nice about the crib is that it's all the same injuries she'll get doing the same thing on the floor running into the floor (face plants), but not as bad as the ones she'll get on furniture, walls, concrete, perfectly misplaced toy, other people's kids, siblings, doors, etc.

The good things about baby design:

- They're low to the ground
- They're bendy
- Their nerves don't work all the way yet (because they aren't fully coated with myelin a lot of transmissions get "lost", but even the ones that don't have a bit of a delay)

All of this equals low probability for perm damage, and lower levels of pain than you or I would feel.

Sigh... our adrenalin always jumps through the roof, however. I blame the near constant icewater-for-blood feeling for each and every grey hair.

Do just make sure that the mattress is on the lowest setting AND the first time she puts her leg on top of he rail you shout NO! in panic induced fear loud enough to make her cry. AFTER the first time, feel free to be calm and stern about the leg over the rail... but you want tears the first time. Keeps it from becoming a game. Falls in the crib... no biggie. Falls OUT of the crib... biggie.

This is normal. Put the crib springs on the lowest setting so that when she falls she falls back into the crib. No she won't get seriously hurt. Banged up a bit, perhaps, but that's part of learning. Let her keep trying.

Marda is right, make sure the mattress is down as low as it will go...she should be just fine.

FYI: My daughter pulled herself up like this and advanced very quickly and was walking at 8 months...so don't be surprised if your lil' girl just busts out with some steps soon :)

Oh yeah, my son is also eight months and is doing all that too. He grabs his crib slats a lot, pulls up to his knees and trys to pull up to a standing position. In the beginning he banged his head a few times, I figure there wasn't much I could do about it and he would figure out it hurt;) Today I found him sitting up with his legs stuck through the slats( he had pushed the bumper all the way down) holding onto the slats and licking them. It was hilarious!:) So after I wriggled his chunky legs free and put the bumper back in place I say "well to each his own!" Good luck, if there is anything to prevent this I don't know of it, but my first born is no worse for wear after many bumps, so I think he'll be alright:)

Well I have boys so not sure if just becoming immune to it but my boys are rough and always hitting heads. 9yr old and an 18mth old and all boy. Lots of wrestling. When I hear a thud I usually will stop and look and wait to see if there is "Hurt Crying" following. If they seem ok and continue playing then I go on with what I'm doing but check off and on. We have only had one fall that really scared me. Shortly after my son learned to walk he was trying to run while drinking his sippy cup and fell hitting his forhead on the corner of a wall. He even had a little dent for a short while. I was pretty panicy even after he pushed away and got up to continue playing. I even had my dad, who used to work ER, come and check him. He ended up being fine but it left a nasty bruise. I was always told that you don't want to jump at every fall, you need to let them work out some of them or they will cry even when they aren't hurt because it gets attention from mom and dad which makes it difficult to determine when they really are hurt. It sounds as though she is doing a frustrated cry. Now if the crying changes definitely tend to her but they are going to fall a lot even after they become better walkers and even runners.

As long as you make sure she can't flip herself out of the crib she'll be fine. When my 13 month old gets too tired she's taken to bonking her head on the floor. And just yesterday she flipped herself off the couch twice, both times head first. She's fine. I think baby bones are part rubber. If it isn't any harder than she can do to herself banging her head on the floor then she can't hurt herself. Just make things as safe as you can, then watch for signs of concussion: keep an eye out for sleepiness, listlessness, swelling, moodiness, loss of balance.

kids are sooo bouncy lol. and not only that she will learn quickly, doing that hurts. and she won't do it anymore. give her some credit, let her explore. like marda said (she's right on) put the mattress all the way down, keep the rail up, and let her go. she'll be fine!

Can she get hurt, sure. But the likely hood of getting seriously hurt, are very low. Yes, this is common and all babies do it at some point. There will be lots of bumps and bruises from now until I don't know when....my oldest is five and she still does something every now and again.