Im showing quite a bit for 15 weeks but today my 5 year old cousin hit me quite hard on my bump in a bad temper. I was quite sore after but feeling ok now. Im sure baby is well protected in there, but hard not to worry.

hope you hit him back!! lol joking! Baby will be fine, well padded although it does make you worry, my 1 year old kicks me in the belly all the time when im changing her nappy, she is too small to explain to her to be careful but you should make sure your cousin has it explained to him why he is not to do it again, i know he is only little and didnt mean anything by it but just to make sure he knows in future x

Pregnancy is such a worry isnt it. He was told off and sent to his room but he has special educational needs to what he learnt from it will be hard to tell. Il try to stay out of his way in future. My LO also trys to kick me when im changing his nappy lol

I'm sure your LO will be absolutely fine - a couple of weeks ago I (stupidly ) crouched down to say hello to my FIL's dog and needless to say she excitedly jumped up at me and I got quite a hefty paw in the stomach. Earlier on in the pregnancy I would have been a lot more worried about it, but after having my 20 week scan and the sonographer being really quite rough I was much more able to brush it off. (My LO had her head buried right down in my pelvis during the scan so the sonographer really had to dig around with the probe to get her to move, to the point that it really hurt and I actually told her so. I figure though that if that amount of pushing and prodding wasn't doing any harm, then a bit of a thump isn't going to).

Of course having a bit of a whack on the stomach still played on my mind a little bit until the slight discomfort afterwards had settled down and I could still feel LO kicking away, but as expected there was no problem at all. I think just trust your own instincts. If you're really worried or get any pains/bleeding then of course it would be worth getting checked out, but unless you had a really bad hit on your bump or fell directly onto your stomach I'd say that's pretty unlikely to happen.