Daft Question - pregnancy with a toddler

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This is probably a really daft question but I’m currently 5/6 weeks pregnant with my second & I have a 26 month old. She’s a very ‘climby’ child, she never sits still and constantly clambers all over us. Feet, hands & elbows dig into you and then she’ll decide to bounce on our stomachs!

She caught me really hard in the stomach today & it blooming hurt (although I know baby is well below the pelvic bone at the mo & it would have hurt regardless). Is there a point where I should try limit this clambering? Or is baby pretty well protected through pregnancy?

I would get her to stop in now before u get further along, baby is protected but id rather be safe than sorry also when the baby does come along she would have to stop doing that any way x

I had 4 kids in quick succession (eldest was 5 when the 4th came along), pretty sure they all continued to climb over me and even sit on my bump, through all pregnancies. I remember one of them giving me a hefty boot in the stomach, having a tantrum, while I tried to wrestle them into their car seat ...I went to the hospital to get checked that time, but all was well. Babies are pretty well protected by the amniotic fluid most of the time.
Obviously you wouldn’t want to endanger your unborn child in any way, but I don’t think restricting your toddlers interaction with you is necessary x

Your unborn baby will be perfectly fine. Your toddler can't hurt them, I assure you.

Baby is very well protected

My dd kicked me in the stomach when I was pregnant with her brother.

She was only about 15 months and hated nappy changing so this is what triggered it

I just made sure I kept my stomach away from her

Never too early to teach child not to clamber on you it's not exactly going to scar her mentally for life..

It's such a tough one isn't it! I've a 2.10 yo and am 27 weeks and am nervy every now and again even though I know she's well protected in there! It's more just getting him to be gentle with baby from the start. That said I don't like to react when he catches me roughly as I don't want him to feel pushed out by the new baby already! I am going to encourage rough play to be with dada for the next few months!

Babu is protected but I am trying to get toddler to be a bit more gentle with me anyway.
They are like goats

My 20month old never climbed or kicked me in the belly before I was pregnant, now it's all she wants to do. I'm hoping it's her bonding with her baby sibling lol

Baby is very well cushioned and protected in there
I’m having my 3rd baby in 4 years - DC1 is 4 and is the clumsiest child on this planet, DC2 is 2 and insists on being carried everywhere, so uses my bump as a little chair to sit on! Both of them lay on me, climb on me, want picking up all the time etc.

Literally like a goat.. the world is an obstacle course to her! Thankfully, she’s also quite compliant, if you say no, dangerous she tends to listen! I try channel her climbing interests into two times a week toddler gymnastics! I highly recommend

Thanks for all the replies & advice, I’ll def try encourage a bit less climbing but not worry too much!

As you get further along and visibly pregnant just tell her climbing on you is uncomfortable for you and the baby. Hopefully she may take in a much more nurturing attitude to your tummy!

I have a 16month old and am nearly 27 weeks. He is a cuddly baby and fidget so I’ve had some kicks but nothing I would worry about. I just tell him no and keep telling him baby in belly, he understands a little as will
Stroke ( or hot depending on mood) my belly and day baby x