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Good afternoon you guys and happy Saturday I hope you are having a great day I am sitting over here wondering if I can just wrap my child in bubble wrap for the rest of his life because he is a swell he's been pulling himself up on furniture for a while but now he's starting to like walk around holding onto stuff and pulling himself up more and just literally like pushing himself up against the wall and like walking along and he's obviously falling over a lot and it stresses me out like I am so scared of him getting hurt or like hitting his head and all that like I know I have to let him explore and like figure out his body and like how it works but oh my gosh does it make me so nervous like oh I literally even when he's like pushing his walker along like I'm standing right there like ready to catch him like it is so nerve-racking but it's so exciting so what are some ways you guys helped your kids learn how to walk if you have older kids because I definitely think he's ready and I can't wait for that mile stone so what are some ways I can kind of help him along safely
I completely understand how you feel when my firstborn was a baby and learning how to pull herself up onto things she once learned how to pull herself up onto my queen size bed and she took a tumble and landed right on her head and I felt so terrible and I was freaking out because I wasn't sure if she was OK and she was fussy and so I did take her to her pediatrician and her pediatrician told me not to worry so much be
Because babies are like rubber bands they're very flexible their bones are very soft so it might hurt or scared them from the fall but they ultimately should be OK at the end she said that babies are resilient and they are more able to bounce back then and a doll is which really sunk in with me because like she had children of her own as well so I felt like she actually knew what she was talking about
And with my two sons they were daredevils they were learning how to pull themselves out of their walker and how to pull themselves out of their jumpers and they were into everything and they are perfectly fine we have only had one broken bone and it happened when my son was five years old so I was able to say five years without going with a broken bone will technically eat because my oldest is eight but they should be OK
Oh yeah I see it happens accidents happen but yeah that's definitely really reassuring like I don't know they really are just built different like they're built better than we are I guess they're able to withstand more than we are and like I think if anything we think like somethings wrong because they're crying but like you said like they're actually more like scared than they are hurt
But like you got a let them figure it out and that's one of the hardest things about being a parent you know you got a let your kid like figure things out and you just wanna like protect them from everything but like you can't you really can't you can try but you really can't so you have to support them and be there and all of that but it's still it's just like so nerve-racking like it's so exciting but it's just so nerve-racking because it's like a whole New World of like danger like you realize how dangerous everything is when your kids start like walking
I totally understand I have a 21-month-old so I mean it wasn't that long ago that I went through that also and I just made like the area around the safe as possible like I was grateful that our ottoman was a fabric one so like she couldn't get her on that when she was like cruising around the couch in the Ottoman and then we do have a stone fireplace so I just made sure she was never like near there doing that and then that we add we've ended up putting like towels around like that