Accidents

What are the worst accidents that your little ones had so far?

I thought this post could help us all reduce some of the Mom guilt . 🫣
My daughter just fell of her little toy car while my husband just went to let the dog out 😭

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My son’s a bit older (peanut loves to show me groups I don’t belong in 😂) but last year he tried to climb up a window box outside and pulled the whole thing down on himself and had mud in his mouth/eyes/ears and started throwing up mud, it was horrendous!! We had to get him in the shower and he didn’t stop crying for about 30 minutes 😩 quick trip to the gp the next day who said he was totally fine thankfully.

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My 2.5yo daughter slammed our Dec 22 boy's thumb in the hinge side of the door last Monday. It went flat, purple and bled lots. Took him to a&e and he has a broken finger and has now lost his fingernail :( poor boy.
A while ago he started crying so I assumed he'd slipped (he was in the kitchen side of our open plan kitchen diner and I was the other side). I picked him up to cuddle him then realised I had blood all over my white jumper. He had a nose bleed so had obviously hit his nose and I hadn't realised :(.

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Tripped over the big toy mess that I had just asked him to tidy up and he had toys in his hand so he ended up with a big carpet burn on his forehead 🙈
A small cut on her forehead because her and her brother were fighting over a wooden train and it hit her in the head 🙈

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When he was 7 months rolled off a quite high bed onto a hard tile floor while we were on vacation 🙈 No blood yet but now he’s getting more mobile definitely some bruises here & there

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🙁🥺 poor baby ❤️

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My little boy tried to walk and grabbed onto the glass table. He missed it, hit his head instead on the corner, and now has a scar
I felt horrible 😞
We no longer have the table 🤣
And recently fell over the back of the sofa and slight cut on this ear 😖 all while I had him thought I was a bad mother after both 😭😢

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He was a nursery when he climbed over a toy kitchen and face planted the floor , he had a nice egg on his head when I picked him up

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My older child has two left feet and is pretty unaware of danger. He started very young with accidents. He fell out the house and needed sticky stitches at around 1½. Most recently he broke his elbow, which needed emergency surgery. In a damn softplay 5 min before leaving! He's 9 and still alive. Not sure how much longer till I have a heart attack tho 🤣

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We haven’t had a big one yet at 13 months but dreading the day🥺 She did bump her cheek on a toy at nursery last week and I had to sign the accident book for the first time.

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my 7 month baby crawled and fell down from a high bed to carpet floor .should we look for any signs or take her to hospital? She seems ok until now . But I am feeling terrible

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my daughter rolled off a high bed on a wooden floor at that age too she was ok thanks god. I would just look for signs. I know how terrifying it is but just monitor for now

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aw poor thing! I don’t think there’s any need to take them unless it’s very obvious they’re unwell. If she seems ok just keep an eye but hopefully all fine

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Bust her lip tripping on a slope at nursery - then fell over twice while it was still healing and reopened the wound both times!
The other day I accidentally opened a door without realising she had stood behind me and it hit her on the head 😭

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Ok, this might get a bit long, and a bit bumpy, so get comfy and buckle up.

So about a week or 2 ago, there was a post on here regarding sleepovers. Not letting their child go to them as you can't trust who'll be at the house etc.

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A sleepover, is a more controlled environment, with only a handful of people coming into contact with your child. A school, a club etc there can be 100s of people coming into contact with your child.

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I thought it was meant to get better as time went on not worse. I’m at my wits end I dunno what to do.

Currently typing this as she screams uncontrollably in the car and I cry with her cos I can’t do anything.

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