Second accident at nursery of the same nature.

[IchHabeDurst]

I'm looking for a few sensible suggestions (if you'd be so kind) as to how I can fix a problem at my sons nursery, please.

A month ago my son tripped and hit his head on a wooden window sill in his room at nursery. He's a toddler so naturally clumsy. The window sill is at toddler chest height so they can see out into the garden. He got a bump on the head but nothing worse.

Today he did the same thing again but this time caught his eyebrow bone. 5mm lower and it would have been his eye and broke his nose, so the doctors say. He's got a terrible, swollen, black eye now. We spent the morning at the walk in centre checking he hadn't fractured his eye socket etc. I feel so bad for him

I don't want this to happen again. It was so close to being so much worse than he's already got, and that's not good! He's in pain and I don't like one bit that he's suffering.

How can they make the window sill safer? Pad it out seems to be the obvious solution? I want to complain tomorrow but want to go in armed with suggestions rather than just complaints because I want them to address this asap.

Sorry for the long post but thanks if you got this far!

My son trapped his hand in a door at nursery and I went in and said firmly that they needed to sort it - they got the maintenance guy in the next day.
You are well within your right to suggest making a change and padding sounds good.

To be honest I don't think nursery's can be expected to pad every hard edge.

DD was very accident prone until a couple of months ago and I just saw bumps at nursery as par for the course.

It’s not your responsibility to give suggestions to make it safer. A good nursery should have assessed it after the first bump and done something to make it safer. As it’s now happened twice I would say that it’s clearly a hazard and you expect to see it made safe.

I think be a use it's a repeat of the same accident then yes they should be doing something to pad the edge.

Thanks for your quick responses. And thank you for agreeing with me (3 out of 4) that this needs looking at.

I know it's not my responsibility to make it right but I feel so guilty that it happened that I just want to put it right.

He's due to go to nursery tomorrow but I'm very reluctant to send him. That's assuming he's well enough, which I doubt he will be. His eye is almost swollen shut now (he just woke up briefly so I looked) and he's already sleeping so poorly because he keeps laying on the bad side of his face. It's going to be a long night!

Honestly, I don't know that I would do anything about a windowsill at that height in my house, or that I would expect a nursery to. (Disclaimer - baby PFB only starting to crawl.)

They should be using something like this. I would be suggesting they order some.

www.amazon.co.uk/GHB-Table-Guard-Corner-Protectors/dp/B01DLK4CBS?th=1&tag=mumsnetforum-21

He could just as easily trip over his own feet and headbutt a wall, door frame, table etc they can’t pad the entire place. Unless there’s an actual trip hazzard YABU expecting them to ‘do’ anything other than monitor him & see if there are any other issues with his balance & co ordination etc.

Agreeing with autumleaves.

If that was in my home I’d probably pad it with a pool noodle. And I’m not one to baby proof a house normally.

You could suggest that to them.

Surely they can just move a bit if the furniture and put in front of the window?

Why don't you provide the padding material to the nursery, if it seems to be only your child who keeps bumping against it?