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We have all the details. A sibling had a serious head injury once. Obviously, the mom is terrified of that happening again and is considering this.
I don't think the mom should visit her fears and terror on the child. It's just not a good thing to do. She needs to talk to someone to try to come to grips and understand that the head injury, while awful and scary, was an event, not something that is going to happen to all of her children and she must do everything she can to avoid even the most remote chance of it happening.
This is the OP's friend's child. He gave no details except for the past history. We don't know anything whatsoever about the child in question.
I suspect we don't have all the details here. Children who have neurological issues are often encouraged to wear helmets.
It is also very problematic having children who learn to walk very young. I do know of children who learned to walk at 8 or 9 months, and they don't have great co-ordination, and they are very head-heavy, and is not uncommon for the very young walkers to wear helmets for a few weeks.
He doesn't have neurological issues. My friend did confirm he is already starting to walk a little bit and is topheavy and that is one of her concerns. If they do wear it for a few weeks, do they get attached to it?
My friend did confirm he is already starting to walk a little bit and is topheavy and that is one of her concerns. If they do wear it for a few weeks, do they get attached to it?
No, they do not get attached to it. Once the very wobbly stage is over they do fine without it. It's amazing the difference between an 8 or 9 month-old child learning to walk, and the normal 12 month-old. The younger ones just do seem to hurt themselves a lot more.
You should warn her that helmets make them feel indestructible. Our son had to wear one for severe plagiocephaly (a huge flat spot on his head) and when he got it off at 14mths after wearing it since 7mths he thought he could bash head first through everything. We had to watch him lime crazy for a long time.
Depends on the situation. Some of our kids chose to wear bicyle helmets around the house because our giant dogs had giant tails that would wack them in the head when wagging said tail. We offered to confine the dogs to a romm, bt the kids anted to play with them and lie on them etc. They chose to wear helmuts instead.
It's easier to childproof the child rather than the whole house. Especially if you have stone floors.
We had a helmet for our kid right when he was the most frustrated about walking. He would literally jump headfirst into everything in order to try to get there. That was at about 8 months.
That helmet was worth every freakin' penny. He wore it for about a month. And only at certain times in certain rooms.
Now that he walks and runs, he doesn't need it anymore. He bumps his head and falls down and whatever he does, but it's not the same as literally launching himself full-force headfirst into everything.
I work in emergency medicine, and putting together a head lac in a baby is extremely traumatizing to the kid and extremely difficult to do well. Avoid the whole situation altogether if you can.
Btw, bicycle helmets are only good for ground level falls and low speed falls...at high speed, it may mitigate injury, but you're fooling yourself if you don't realize what it's really for.
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