I have a nephew who is very exuberant, strong and strong willed. When he chooses to go off somewhere it is hard to restrain him.
When he was only about 2 he would run full blast, and since he wasn’t yet very coordinated, he would run into things. Bruises all over. One time he was trying to get away from his mom who was holding his arm, and he dislocated his shoulder.
Fortunately, their doctor knows them well and knows how this child is, or they would be with cps constantly.
My daughter was nothing but bumps and bruises when she was a toddler.
At one of her pediatrician visits, the nurse started looking at the marks and grilling us. When the doctor walked it, it was obvious the nurse had “warned” him out the bruises. He spent about ten minutes questioning us about her activities and the various bruises visble.
When he was finished with his questions, he looked over at her asked her to come over, she took about three running steps and hit the cabinet next to him leaving a small bleeding laceration above her eye. He almost freaked out, he jumped up and started turning circles looking for something to put on the wound. My wife calmly looked at the wound, cleaned it with some antiseptic from her purse and put a small bandaide on the wound.
He was all apologies about her getting hurt in his office. We reassured him that it wasn’t his fault, she had no slow speed, she ran into things in our house all the time. He ended up taking care of all three of our children as they came along and never questioned us about bumps or bruises again.