Where do you draw the line with bumps to the head?

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DS, 11 months and with an insatiable appetite for peril, stood up in the bath tonight, slipped, and cracked his forehead on the side. It's not enamel or anything but he really whacked it, right between his eyebrows, and it immediately came up in a bump. He cried hard for a minute or two (it felt like ages to be honest ) and then cheered up and wanted to get back in. He's been given some Nurofen but he seemed normal and cheery and I went through bedtime routine as normal and he's gone off to sleep.

DP says it's just one of those things and not to worry. I'm worrying. In fact I'm going in to check on him when I've posted this, and I NEVER do that because he's such a dicky sleeper.

It was a bump, and yes, I'm sure it happens to all babies at some point, but it was such a big clonk, it's just stuck on repeat in my mind's eye. Should we be doing more than we have?

I had a mad dash to GP with my DS (age 4) a few months ago after a HUGE egg appeard on his head

He cried furiously for 5 mins then nothing

GP said not to worry unles he was drowsy / sick and he was neither

I do sympathise though, poor boy - and you!

That's what DP and my mum said, MamaG. Thanks. When you're hysterical anyway due to being mother of a PFB, it's hard to know when you have good reason to be!

He seems ok - sleeping now but woken once already as per usual

And why do they always give themselves the biggest bumps just before bed/naps? So you're left worrying and feeling like a terrible mother for putting them down anyway.

I know! If he'd done it in the morning I'd have had all day to study his every move and panic over everything, whereas now I'm just feeling guilty for putting him to bed and tiptoeing in every ten minutes to peek at him.

I used to be perfectly rational, you know.

DS2 fell off the bed at 4am the other morning . He clung to me for dear life when I picked him up and put him back in bed with me... I wish he would stay in his cot all night and then I wouldn't have to worry.

He bumps his head on average around 6 times a day; I do worry about permanent damage.