 The
scrapes they get into!
Toddlers are infamous for being accident-prone. We asked babyworld
members to share the scary incidents either they or their children have
got into. Be prepared to cringe, laugh, gasp and thank goodness that all
is well!
"Thank God she was wearing her puffa coat"
"My worst moment as a parent was when Holly plunged into the river Cherwell
last January. We went to feed the ducks - she was right there walking
beside us when she tripped and went headlong into the river before we
had a chance to grab her. Despite having had first aid training and life
saving skills, I was so shocked and scared I couldn't move. Luckily my
husband was there, jumped in and pulled her out. Also luckily she was
wearing her puffa coat, which kept her afloat! She was blue from the cold
and was shocked so we called the duty doctor (it was the weekend) and
he advised we take her there to the children's A&E to be checked for waterborne
diseases since we couldn't say if she'd swallowed any river water. A very
unpleasant nurse demanded why we were wasting their time when my daughter
was obviously fine (we had waited two hours just for an assessment and
by that time, we had managed to get something sweet in her and she'd perked
up). It's made me scared to go back there again!" Sam
"He had a corker of a bruise"
"When Mostyn was 18 months old, he was running down the hallway of a
friend's house too fast, tripped and flew into the corner of the skirting
board on a doorway, at full pelt. A deathly silence fell before he let
out an ear-piercing scream. I couldn't believe he hadn't split his head
in two but all he landed up with was a big lump on his forehead and a
corker of a bruise - we didn't even have to go to casualty!" Steph
"The needle went through his forefinger"
"Luckily, to date, we haven't had too many serious incidents, which ain't
bad when you put 6 kids into that equation. Georgie fell onto a plug socket
during a seizure and sustained a rather nasty head injury. She was discharged
from hospital the same day though. If you want strange, Trystan (10 years
old at the time) was playing with a needle he'd taken from the house (I
have no idea why) and fell over, causing the needle to go clean through
his forefinger. He had to go to hospital to have it removed, which they
said we could have done at home I never forget it as he was hysterical,
as were his older sisters when they saw what he had done." Vix33
"There was blood everywhere"
"Nothing life threatening with my kids. Kyle broke his nose in January;
he decided to go climbing on his desk and went flying, there was blood
everywhere and his nose looked dreadful. Loads of bumped heads and teeth
through lips but nothing major." HayleyNicole
"Harry's foreskin was trapped in the train!"
"Harry was two. It was summer and they were playing in the paddling pool
stark naked. They came in for lunch and sat on the sofa watching TV whilst
they waited and Harry was playing with the train from his train set. Next
thing I hear is an almighty ear-piercing screech and I ran into the living
room to find Harry had his foreskin completely wrapped around the inner
workings of the train. I went into panic mode (great in a crisis aren't
I?) and rang the Dr who said bring him in. I told him I couldn't drive
and also couldn't move Harry as every movement caused him great pain.
The Dr basically said 'Oh well then' and left it at that! I ended up ringing
an ambulance as I couldn't get him to A&E on my own. Every time I had
to describe what had happened there was a slight pause of A) disbelief
and B) attempts to muffle laughter.
"When the ambulance arrived (it was the ginger bloke on Trauma) they
also were stunned to see it but they managed to get the train off by totally
dismantling it. Poor Harry was hysterical all this time. We all went to
the hospital in the ambulance (which Harry loved) and he was fine by then,
so when we got there and the paramedic had to explain at the desk what
had happened people just could hold the laughter back anymore. Harry loves
telling people that story, he thinks it's hilarious!" Anna
"I went headlong down the stairs"
"The worst childhood accident happened to me when I was little. We lived
in a house that had a long flight of concrete steps from the back door
down to the garden. My sister and I weren't allowed to open the door at
the top on our own as it opened outwards and Mum was scared we'd fall
out, so she put a bolt on it up high.
"Well, one day when I was about four I decided I was going out to play
in the garden, Mummy or no Mummy. Got a chair, stood up on it and slid
the bolt, door opened and I went headlong down the stairs and landed in
a heap at the bottom! I was miraculously unharmed, as was the chocolate
biccie I was eating at the time! My Mum it still going on about it almost
30 years later." Morag
"He'll look Cyclops-like as an adult"
"Our worst accidents were all based around bikes. My first son (now 16)
went over his handlebars & cut his face to ribbons. Poor kid looked like
he'd been in a bloodbath, blood pouring everywhere. Thankfully it was
all superficial, so no stitches and no scars. My second son (now 13) went
over his handlebars & knocked one of his adult teeth out. He's supposed
to wear a false tooth there but a teacher at school pointed out that even
kids have rights and my son didn't have to wear it if he didn't want to.
He advocated his right not to! The gap is now slowly closing but the dentist
has said he'll look slightly Cyclops-like when he's an adult!" Jan
"My daughter trapped her arm behind the radiator"
"My second daughter fell asleep in school with her elbow on a radiator
and it slid behind the radiator and got stuck. Fortunately the caretaker
turned off the heat and managed to remove it from wall before the fire
brigade arrived to cut her out. She got moved to the middle row of desks
the following day.
"My son had fallen on a bed running from me to his dad at 15 months and
the idiot didn't catch him. He thought I was going to dive across the
bed and get him, like I could do that and not knock him flying. My son
head hit the corner of a cabinet, the one I'd asked his dad to take the
legs off as it was above bed height and therefore a potential danger,
and cut his brow. He also tumbled down the stairs and landed on his nose,
nothing broken but it scarred as he picked the scab." Debbieann
"The nurse had to glue his chin together"
"Touch wood (frantically taps head) we've been fairly accident free.
The worst accident was when my second son was about 4 and he rode his
scooter down a little hill, dived off (on purpose) and smashed into the
fencing around the tennis courts. I think he expected to bounce off, but
a bit of the wire fencing was sticking out and it caught his cheek and
tore a huge gash. It really was quite frightening looking. I picked him
up and belted across the road to the school, knowing they would have a
first-aider, and they patched him up a bit.
"We then took him down to the doctor's where the nurse was able to glue
his chin back together. She made a right mess though and he looked awful
for a couple of months till it healed up. Not so much as a scar left to
show for it though." Sandra (still tapping her head just in case)
"He fell out of the car"
"I remember a couple of things vividly as a child, when my brother Rob
was a baby and I was 5 years old. Somehow he managed to tip hot coffee
on him and mum was outside hanging washing out so I stripped Rob off and
put him in the sink and ran cold water all over him. I was so proud of
myself! I got £5 from my nan and granddad when they found out, and also
at my Brownie meeting I got a big 'well done' from everyone for my quick
actions! Also, when Rob was about 5, we were driving in the car and on
a busy roundabout. Rob was fiddling with the door handle and it flew open
and Rob fell out the car, he was held in by his seatbelt, but his hands
were scraping all along the ground, and it was horrid, all his skin was
gone." Rachel
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