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Help! Extra clumsy tot

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BabydollsMum · 14/05/2012 11:24

DD has always been very high-spirited and particularly active. She's been walking since 10 months, but now at 15 months she's tearing round like a mad thing and the bumps, bangs and scratches are getting so frequent it's becoming a real worry. She won't look where she's going and crashes into everything at high speed. She's really tiny too, so I feel like she's extra vulnerable. She always seems to have cuts and bruises and I feel so bad! TBH, I worry sometimes that she's going to be brain damaged from it all. I know that sounds silly...

Apart from turning every room into a padded cell, any advice? Our nerves are shattered! Thanks.

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brightonbleach · 14/05/2012 11:57

sounds perfectly normal to me! Grin but thats because I have a very high energy bull in a chinashop DS maybe???? he's the same, now 2 and a half, since he could walk/run -first steps 10m running by 12m flinging himself off back of sofa 14m... just this morning he has been using stairs as a slide, jumping and rolling off beds at high speed, charging at a solid wall at lightspeed... he fell off the garden (concrete) steps recently as he was trying to fly down them, had a bruise on his face for weeks, it was huge! Scary isn't it?!?! no real advice here then i#m afraid, I always just have to a)try and catch him and b) tell him 'steady steady' and 'wait for mummy' and he is getting better at that, plus his balance improved dramatically with age so he falls less (buts runs faster!) am also wishing for a padded cell - go to a padded softplay centre like we do, so they can roll/run/jump/fall to their hearts content, not get hurt and it uses up some energy...

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