Do babies usually bang their heads on their cots?

[Countrygirl13]

Our 11month old is still in her travel cot beside our bed. She is now pretty much sttn (wooooo!) i want to get her sleeping in her big cot in her own room at night. She already naps in it.
Now she is crawling/ pulling up she is more restless in the night and will sit up, roll onto her tummy and generally move all around her travel cot. She half wakes up, sits up then nods off and slumps down again. I imagnie her head must hit/brush the mesh sides of the travel cot on the way down. She can also pull herself up on her wooden slatted cot bars of her big cot unlike the travel one.
I am really worried that she will stand up in the night, let go of the bars and bang her head. Am contemplating a) leaving her where she is FOREVER or b) wrapping all sides of wooden cot in heavy padding against sids advice.
Do the horrors i am imagining happen on a regular basis to other babies? Or am i just thinking worst case scenario?

 

[MindUtopia]

I think you're worrying yourself for nothing. She will probably bump around, but my daughter never hit her head on the side of the cot or fell over while in it or anything like that (and we didn't have cot bumpers). She's fallen out of her bed on a few occasions now that she sleeps in that, but it's never fazed her. She did wake up, but wasn't bothered and went right back to sleep. The reality is that once they start standing, crusing, walking, running they are going to fall down and bang their heads on so many things that the cot would be the last thing I'd probably worry about. My daughter, who is 2.5, has fallen off a chair and hit her head on the tile in the kitchen, spun around and made herself dizzy and slammed head first into the radiator, thrown herself backwards and hit her head on the car window while climbing out of her car seat, and given herself a black eye tripping and falling into a table at preschool. She's been fine each time if just a little shaken up at first. In a bed, at least you have the benefit that there aren't any sharp edges and the mattress is soft. Babies are pretty resilient and it takes a lot to cause them any harm, so I would say she'll most likely be fine and I wouldn't let it worry you too much.

 

[Countrygirl13]

Thank you. You're right. I need to calm down. She stops my heart at least ten times a day with her near misses. Need to let her get on with it to some extent since they don't make cots with rubber bars!

 

[Perplexed]

Don't worry. Dd's bumped her head many times in her cot bed but it's never been serious. she's also bumped her head on other things, it's part of being a baby & toddler. Eventually she'll figure out what hurts and what doesn't in terms of her cot bed. These days dd sometimes decides to lay down at the very end of the cot bed and hits her head. When I hear/see her so that I say "ouch!" (can't help it...reflex) and she just giggles at me lol. We also don't use cot bumpers.

 

[zorak]

You are over thinking it. My boy is an active sleeper and we had no issues. We never used any form of bumper.