I Need Advice Ladies--Daughter Keeps Bumping Head On My Ceramic Tile

Chloe is 15 MOS...and crawling all over.

She tends to love to be on the floor a lot and loves slipping and sliding She gets all silly and lays down, etc

In the last several days she has fallen back and hit her head on my ceramic floor. Its hard enough to hear it and of course she cries for a bit and then gets over it.

I try keeping her out but in my townhouse the kitchen and living room are attached and its too large of an area to put a gate up.

She never got a BUMP YET, but I am SOOO nervous she will really get hurt eventually! How do I avoid this?

Do your children bump their head often? If so, do they get really hurt??

Thanks for any and all advice!

PS. I thought about a rug but how much cushion would that really give?
PSS. I rent to I cannot carpet there:)

Message edited 1/26/2010 9:57:36 AM.

Re: I Need Advice Ladies--Daughter Keeps Bumping Head On My Ceramic Tile

Can you get one of the foam letter mats? Also my house the living room and dining room are open, we have a huuuge glass breakfront in the dining room so we don't let her in it, right now we have the superyard XT with an extension enclsoing her in the living room and its big enough for her to crawl in, but once she starts walking there is a huge gate that you can get (it's a soft one) that opens up to really really wide...Msrbk has it and I'll be getting it soon!

Re: I Need Advice Ladies--Daughter Keeps Bumping Head On My Ceramic Tile

yup..we are talking at least 5 times a day...we keep calling our 1 yr old a big klutz! I dont know how he doesnt have bumps...he falls fwd, back and on the sides!

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DS bumps his head a million times a day it seems like. He's fine...he cries initially but not because he's hurt, it's more a scared, ****** off kind of cry cause the second I pick him up he stops. I usually just try to redirect his attention when he does it and he forgets all about it.

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I would either get a small rug or foam mats. You can also get gates that basically section off an area like this

Re: I Need Advice Ladies--Daughter Keeps Bumping Head On My Ceramic Tile

this is the gate I was talking about

gate

and the superyard XT with the extension has been our savior when she's crawling, she literally stays in there with all her toys and has room to crawl, cruise etc...

Re: I Need Advice Ladies--Daughter Keeps Bumping Head On My Ceramic Tile

Posted by pickles16

Can you get one of the foam letter mats? Also my house the living room and dining room are open, we have a huuuge glass breakfront in the dining room so we don't let her in it, right now we have the superyard XT with an extension enclsoing her in the living room and its big enough for her to crawl in, but once she starts walking there is a huge gate that you can get (it's a soft one) that opens up to really really wide...Msrbk has it and I'll be getting it soon!

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Thanks, which gate is this? The thing is, the area I need sectioned off is much BIGGER then this. I wonder what is the BIGGEST gate. I guess I can get the biggest I can find length wise and add as much extensions as possible??

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Posted by pickles16

Can you get one of the foam letter mats? Also my house the living room and dining room are open, we have a huuuge glass breakfront in the dining room so we don't let her in it, right now we have the superyard XT with an extension enclsoing her in the living room and its big enough for her to crawl in, but once she starts walking there is a huge gate that you can get (it's a soft one) that opens up to really really wide...Msrbk has it and I'll be getting it soon!

Re: I Need Advice Ladies--Daughter Keeps Bumping Head On My Ceramic Tile

Posted by BabyLove08

Posted by pickles16

Can you get one of the foam letter mats? Also my house the living room and dining room are open, we have a huuuge glass breakfront in the dining room so we don't let her in it, right now we have the superyard XT with an extension enclsoing her in the living room and its big enough for her to crawl in, but once she starts walking there is a huge gate that you can get (it's a soft one) that opens up to really really wide...Msrbk has it and I'll be getting it soon!

Thanks and good ideas! Do you know the length if the XT? Maybe I can just buy a lot of extensions?

PS. How is the dog situation going? I really feel for you Jen. We are HUGE animal lovers here!

Message edited 1/26/2010 1:27:42 PM.

Re: I Need Advice Ladies--Daughter Keeps Bumping Head On My Ceramic Tile

I have been thinking about getting one of these for my 21 month old

Re: I Need Advice Ladies--Daughter Keeps Bumping Head On My Ceramic Tile

I looked this gate up. I appears to be the biggest one out there. The other one you have (the XT) is good just not as large?

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Geez, I'm SO scared she's going to crack her head open!

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Re: I Need Advice Ladies--Daughter Keeps Bumping Head On My Ceramic Tile

consider an area rug- i've seen them under $100 for a patterned on 8 feet by 10 feet at lowes

Re: I Need Advice Ladies--Daughter Keeps Bumping Head On My Ceramic Tile

My DS has a big head and this seemed to throw off his balance until he was about 20 months. If I tell you the falls he has taken....off steps, on to concrete, even out of a shopping cart.
Yet he is tough and has never even had a bump for more than 10 minutes. (I also doubt he has pain sensors as he almost never cries from falling)

The only thing I will say is generally it hurts us more than them (after DS fell from the shopping cart I felt like the worst mom ever, I think I was shaken up for DAYS - while DS was fine by the time we got to the Drs office about 15 minutes later!)

And I will say it gets better...we just have to pray alot until they grow out of it (and remove any corners or sharp objects from their area!)

GL

PS the foam letters are great and they are easy to move, clean etc I have them in my playroom although its carpeted its on slab and I like the extra cushion for my accident prone child! (he takes after me I know this!

Re: I Need Advice Ladies--Daughter Keeps Bumping Head On My Ceramic Tile

An area rug might actually help. We have one in our den area and have that foamy-like pad underneath to keep it from moving. It would definately soften the blow.

Re: I Need Advice Ladies--Daughter Keeps Bumping Head On My Ceramic Tile

DD is 10 months old and crawling all over the place too. My whole apartment is tile. She has bumped her head on the floor and on my china closet too. She called a few seconds and then stopped. I know that she is going to fall but as long as she does not get severally hurt then I am ok with her on the tile.