Have you ever heard the old saying, "If your baby doesn't fall of the bed before he is one he will stutter?"
Well.....................Andrew will not stutter now!
Last Tuesday, one of my regular days off, Andrew and I had started our day off right! He slept until 9 o'clock. I began our regular routine off the morning. I tucked pillows all around him before I got off the bed so he wouldn't roll off and proceeded to do my business.
Well, next thing I hear is a huge crash and then my heart sunk! Andrew started crying. I just knew that he had fallen off the bed. He usually likes to roll towards Nick's side of the bed but this time he chose to fall off of mine.
As soon as I saw him laying on the floor, I started crying! He was bleeding! Panic set in for me because I just knew he had broken something! He had a scratch on his cheek, nose and upper lip.
When he fell he also hit the air vent that's in the floor next to our bed. So needless to say he had 3 straight lines for bruises on his forehead.
Now as you can imagine I didn't know what to do. He couldn't tell me if he was alright. I thought I might need to take him to the doctor but all I could think about was them calling DHR because they would think it was child abuse! He looked pretty bad. So I called my mom and asked her what to do. She thought he would be ok and told me to watch him and if anything changed to take him to the doctor. I am pretty sure by this time I was the only one crying anymore!
Turns out, my baby is fine! Thank the Lord that He makes babies flexible enough from birth to withstand certain things. Especially accidents that shouldn't occur to begin with!
FYI: He now gets put in his crib with 4 walls that will keep him in the bed and off the floor! That is for now til he starts climbing. Then what am I gonna do??
LESSON LEARNED!
Small Town
1 year ago
3 blessings:
I am at the stage of life where baby has learned to climb up the rails on the side of the crib. The mattress is a low as it will go and he still has learned to use his feet to climb up. He hasn't fallen out yet but I'm just waiting for the day. I put socks on him before he goes down and pillows on the floor just in case. I am a nervous wreck about it.
This will be one of many, many cuts and scraps he will take but I am afraid it doesn't get any better when it comes to feeling their pain because as mothers, we will always want to protect our babies no matter how old they are.
Bless his heart! (and yours!) Carter's worst one yet was the one where he rode the tractor off the brick steps as we were leaving for vacation last year! UGH! I can still see that strip of eyelashes laying on his cheek!!! TOO close!!
My best advice (since I have such huge amounts of experience..lol) is to wait for his reaction before you react. Then you know if it really hurts, or if he's just milking it.....(cause they totally do! They are male, you know! HA!)
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