Baby walking, injuries

[FTM09q24]

My baby is 11.5 months and this weekend has really started walking. He's been walking with help for 6 weeks now but now he's going by himself and it's SO FAST AND SCARY. We were honestly on him 100% of the time but he's so fast, he slipped through my fingers a couple of times and fell really badly. He has a bruise at the top of his nose now, sort of between the eyebrows as he fell with his face into the foot of the sofa. How do we keep him safe? Any tips welcome please. I actually feel like an incompetent mother today, I can't sleep.

He's also been waking at 5am the last 2 days and is absolutely shattered, so any advice on that too is welcome. It's definitely related to the walking!

If you find out, let me know 😅 honestly op that’s just what they do, a rite of passage imo, they lurch around and crash into things and fall over again and again and again. They get steadier very quickly but whew, they like to give you a few heart attacks in the interim. No better way to learn, and improve, than by doing, it’s just a little chaotic at times.

I felt like a terrible parent when mine started walking at 12 months, LO world fall over and bash head into things even when I was right there. It happened when my mum was watching like a hawk, at nursery... It's not your parenting, it just has to happen to some extent and it WILL get better.

I felt like a terrible parent when mine started walking at 12 months, LO world fall over and bash head into things even when I was right there. It happened when my mum was watching like a hawk, at nursery... It's not your parenting, it just has to happen to some extent and it WILL get better.

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