Head butting

[Nezzoz 10]

ive got my health visitor coming on thursday but thought id get some other peoples points of view as well.

what it is my 14mth daughter is constantly headbutting things, at first i thought it was a temper thing but she does it all the time, she can be playing nicely and then just start headbutting the floor, toys anything that is there.

its not for attention because even when we try to stop or comfort her she will get off our knee and do it again.

is there condition that starts with haedbutting or could she have any kind of brain iterfirance.

rant over sorry its so long. any advice would be greatfull. thanks in advance.

[Ghostrider 11]

My stepdaughter started this at about 18 months - she is now nearly 10 and still does it.

However, its only when she is falling asleep.

She has had all sorts of tests which showed nothing wrong.

We were told that it may be mild dyspraxia, after a lot of research, we started giving her omega 3 and vitamin B16...she has improved but only time will tell.

[Nezzoz 10]

thanks, im just hopeing that they dont say its a faze because shes been doing it for about 6mths already and its really disstressing to watch her do it to herself not to mention the bumps shes got.

[mbunting 10]

babies seem to do funny things.

 

our 14m madam has a habit of scratching herself anywhere where there is exposed skin on her body ( not head/hands ) - yet cover it up with clothes and she doesn't even show signs of wanting to scratch.

 

I'd just observe what she's up to, what mood she's in, food, tiredness etc, and see if there is a common element ( just in case you find one... )

[Nezzoz 10]

thanks mbunting, i have been watchin all her mood swings and times when the head butting occures and there is no patturn its just random, its as if she needs to do it and its got worse in the past couple of mths.

[Maddy 15]

thanks mbunting, i have been watchin all her mood swings and times when the head butting occures and there is no patturn its just random, its as if she needs to do it and its got worse in the past couple of mths.

 

I TOTALLY know where you are coming from and big hugs to you because it is so hard. DD2 as been doing it since she was about 9 months and shes now 20 months. She has made much a mess of herself so many times andreduced us both to tears.

 

Our HV is great and in the end we were refered for a developmental check which came back as normal. There was a brief respite when her speech improved and we thought it was mostly frustration linked. But we are back to where we started now.

 

The advice I have been given the whole time is to ignore it. Sometimes it works but its so hard and one day she went for neary 2 hours and I really felt I couldn't cope.

 

Anyway from a selfish point of view I'm glad to 'meet' people who understand because I find it so stressful

[Nezzoz 10]

i feel the same im so glad that my daughter is not the only one, and some one knows how we feel thanks maddy.

[Daremedo 10]

My son has been doing this since he was a year old and is now 13 years old and still doing it, he does how ever only do this when he is asleep in bed and has no recollection of it the next day, he is always tired during the day and has some awfull bumps and bruises from banging his head on the wall/bed frame/ or any thing else he can get to while asleep, we have had him to sleep centres and under the doctor for this they even tried sedation at night to help him sleep more soundly but this made him nasty during the day and he even went for his brother with a knife so that was stopped and i have been told it is a habit that he'll grow out of, one day hopefully as it is really loud at night and im forever waking him up to stop him doing it, i have had to tell each neighbour when we have moved house as they think we are banging on the wall and being a bad neighbour, not that they believe you, and he wont stay at friend's or go on school trips because of it, i thought he was the only one.

[jeanjeaney 10]

My daughter used to head butt, cant remember when, but she did grow out of it. We had to replace all our doors downstairs when she started on them, because they were fully glazed, anything would do, walls, cot, tv and once gave me a superb split lip. Mostly did it when she was tired and frustrated. Still got a temper now at 14.

 

I still would check with your health visitor or doctor.

[Nezzoz 10]

health visitor has been and she thinks it may be a comfort or frustration thing, they have appointed her a nursary nurse to stimulate her and se if that detures her from head butting and eventually stoping her from doing it alll together. however if this does not work she will be refured to a specialist.