10 month old newly crawling, bruises normal???

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My 10 month old (but 2 month prem) baby has learnt to crawl, yay! But ever since she has developed quite a few bruises on both shins/knees and elbows/forearms. They always come up yellow and old looking, you never see them looking new or blue in colour. Is this normal? She does seems to ignore what would definitely be uncomfortable obstacles and crawls over them regardless. Not sure if I should get the GP to look at the bruises but also don't want to seem neurotic or worse, make them suspicious of her safety! What were your experiences of bruises and crawling? I asked a relative yesterday and she just looked blank but then her youngest is now 16 so it's been a while.

Sounds okay to me - DS1 (now 22 months) crawled at about 10 months and walked at 13 months. He was (still is) always covered in bruises. Knees, shins, arms and most often now, head. He constantly looks like he's been in fights due to throwing himself into life and having neither fear nor common sense

He'll happily walk barefoot over gravel that must be uncomfortable and rarely even whimpers after falling over - think the world is just to interesting to register the discomfort or pain!

Yup totally normal!! My 8 month old is covered and hasa ssmallness on her head where she keeps head butting the floor cos the silly thing wants to walk rather than crawl!

Glad it's not just DD! My head tells me they are normal but I always doubt myself. They literally appeared at the same time as she started crawling.
Miaow, I love that your second was almost term! Gives me hope. When your first is prem you worry more about the second being more prem than the first. It's good to know that's not flyways the case.
Thanks everyone x