Fourth 'bump report' from daycare this week. Is that a lot, or are they just careful?

fern_bottle_18377 Aug 2026

Our daughter started pulling herself up on furniture last month. Since then the daycare sends a small form home every time she falls. Forehead, chin, back of the head once. Four this week. Each one says 'cold compress applied, child resumed play'. She falls at home too, probably more. I'm not angry with them. I want to know whether four a week is normal for a baby who has just started standing, or whether I should be asking where exactly she keeps falling.

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linen_pigeon_65109 Aug 2026
I'd take the forms as a good sign about the daycare. A lot of places don't write anything down unless a parent complains. The question I'd ask is the 'where'. If three of the four happened at the same spot, that's a furniture problem they can fix. And the back-of-the-head one: did they say how she fell?
- lagoon_balcony_12499 Aug 2026
  same question, the 'where'. our younger one's daycare had a low shelf with a sharp corner that accounted for most of her forehead that whole year. one strip of foam later, done
- fern_bottle_183712 Aug 2026
  Asked. Three of the four were at the same low table in the play corner. She pulls up on its edge and it slides. They've pushed it against the wall now. The back-of-the-head one was her sitting down hard on the mat, no table involved. Two days, no forms so far.