My little seven and a half month old baby started crawling and pulling up on everything all at once. While I am thrilled this is a little bit scary because he has tons of strength in his legs but absolutely no balance. I'm afraid he is going to hurt himself when he topples over. I'm sure nothing can be done to prevent this but if anybody has any advice on something they did I would appreciate it.
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Re: 7 month old crawling and pulling up
sometimes falling and boo boos are inevitable.
DS was crawling and pulling up by 7 mos too - and now he's getting ballsier and lets to to try and walk.
even if i'm right there sometimes he still goes down and has occasionally gotten the bruise or bump to prove it.
When he falls down and it doesn't look like it hurt too badly and he is mostly startled I say something like Uh Oh. The couple of times that he hit his head on the coffee table or a hard plastic toy on his way down I scooped him up and put a little icepack thing on it. I got the icepack at walmart. Its called a frostybear - a little gel filled bear that we keep in the freezer. I am sure it just makes me feel better that I am doing something to help - it likely isn't helping him that much. I will say that he has hit his head prettyt hard a few times but he has always been just fine!