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Kind of a strange question -- Pushing head on floor?
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Anonymous
| This is probably normal toddler behavior (they're weird little creatures!) but my DS has lately been getting on all fours, putting his forehead/top of his head on the floor and pushing himself forward. He does it for quite a while. Usually on carpet but sometimes on the hardwood. Kind of reminds me of a bloodhound on the scent but with the top of his head instead of his nose! Anyone else's child done this? Could it mean anything worrisome? Strange question I know - I'm a worrier! |
Anonymous
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My toddler does not do that, but he does a bunch of other funny stuff. I think all toddlers are just weird critters. Does he take a child gymnastics class, I think some of the funny poses my kid does are trying to immitate what he does in gymnatics.
If it really seems obsessive or if it seems like he "needs" to do it, then I would worry. If he is just doing silly stuff, ignore it. |
Anonymous
| Mine does headstands/downward dogs all the time. I don't think anything of it - maybe he likes the bloodflow to the brain....! |
Anonymous
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My DD loves doing downward dogs! I don't think it's anything to worry about.
I'm sure it's just a cool, different view of the world when they're upside down. 
Yup, toddlers are funny creatures. |
Anonymous
| My son pushes his forehead as hard as he can into anything...furniture, my side, etc. They are all weird! |
Anonymous
| DD does this too, and she loves to look behind herbetween her legs. nothing excites her more than to see someone behind her, but it took her a few to realize that reaching out through her legs to play with us would make her fall down in a big heap! |
Anonymous
| I think almost all kids do it in the 10-18 mo time frame. I have yet to meet a child that did not do it in my 10+ years of being a nanny. |
Anonymous
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Could you be pregnant?
I know that sounds off the wall, but my nanny swears that in her culture, it is said that kids do this when they are pushing their heads down trying to hear their unborn sibling. 
Our kid does the same thing, and I am not pregnant (that I know of.) We have started calling her "downward dog." |