I’ve known for some time now that I need to put Monkey in his walker when I make his bottle. I’ve known that he rolls so quickly & has been thisclose to crawling for a while now. But I’ve always though (quite naively, I might add) that I’ll be able to run over to him should something happen.
Ha! I couldn’t be more wrong about that last statement.
Today I was in the kitchen making Monkey’s bottle. The living room is right there & I sat him on this huge oversized chair & ottoman that we have. I put pillows on the side to prevent any accidents, or so I thought at least.
I looked over at him just in time to notice that he had kicked a pillow off the chair. He was in the middle of a roll that would land him on the floor so I ran over to him. Of course I was too late.
He totally face planted on our tile floors & started really crying. I picked him up & he stopped crying, but I could tell that it really scared him (& me too). Naturally I freaked out & called Tarzan to come downstairs. Monkey had already developed a red circle above his left eye & the bruise was already setting in.
Tarzan thought we needed to take him to the dr so I called the pediatrician. It’s impossible to talk to a nurse, which I don’t understand. You just have to leave a message. (For the record, I left a message at 10:30am & still haven’t heard back right now which is 4:30pm).
Tarzan called his doctor who is a family doctor & he could see Monkey right away.
Even though I was nervous, I felt like this is a rite of passage when you have a baby. I’ve heard so many stories from others about their children falling off the couch, the bed, etc. Even though I knew deep down that I was not the only mom who’s child has fallen off something, I still felt really guilty.
It’s hard to see your baby, who is so completely reliant on you, fall & hurt himself & know that it’s your fault. Sigh.
Anyways, the doctor said that Monkey seemed just fine. He checked him out, including looking in his ears for any blood & deemed him okay from his fall. He did tell us that we should monitor him during his naps today & while he is sleeping tonight. If he throws up or acts funny he said that we should call him & take Monkey to the ER.
I’m hoping that he’s just being extra cautious & that Monkey won’t need to go to the hospital.
So please keep Monkey in your thoughts & prayers for the night. I’m sure he’ll be fine, but extra good vibes can’t hurt, right?! ;)
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= a post from Daddy Tarzan
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Oh my goodness, I’m sure he’s fine but I know how scary it is! My son had just learned how to sit on his own a few months ago and I put him down in our bedroom for two seconds while I ran to grab something from the other side of the room. The bedroom has hardwood floors – bad bad idea. He launched himself backward and BAM! the back of his head hit the floor. It was so loud that my husband woke up out of a deep sleep two floors below us and ran up to see what was wrong. He cried for about 2 minutes and then he was fine. I felt so horrible about it!
I so dread this day.
My little girl will be four months old tomorrow, so next time I blink she’ll be crawling and sitting and walking….and falling.
My thoughts are with you Monkey!
Oh wow, yeah, I’m so thankful I don’t have hard floors right now!
On another note, I’d find a new pediatrician. That’s ridiculous that they didn’t get back to you. If I call mine, I just ask for a nurse and I get one. I think there’s only been one occasion where she had to call me back and that was within an hour or so.
Strange, our son just had his first big fall today, he managed to push open the basement door which was closed but didn’t latch right shut for some reason and he crawled to the edge and fell down an entire flight of stairs into the basement floor. Our doctor checked him out this afternoon and deemed him ok and told us the same as your doctor told you. Glad your little one is ok and so is mine, but gosh it sure is scary to know that something HORRIBLE happened and what could have been much worse…
Jane it’s happened to me twice now… both times felt like the wolrds worse mother,
First time she was on the lounge next to me,, I turn to pick up the phone and before you know she was on the floor screaming her little heart out took her to the doctors she was fine. second time was after a night that i was awake all night with her at about 9 am that morning i was tired i brought her in to my bed to feed I fell asleep and i woke to her faceplanting the floor. I could not believe i fell asleep. both times she was fine just got a really bad fall but we also have hard floors so its always scary… I was told to watch out for the same things but Paige was fine. I will think of monkey..PS Paige has started crawling 3 weeks ago and now pulling her self up on furniture and the cot I am freaking out all the time now
Our son had his first fall yesterday! He’s 8 months old and rolled right off our bed, landed face first on our carpet after hitting the edge of our platform bed. I was TERRIFIED. He was FINE other than the initial 10 seconds of scared crying. His redmark didn’t even last the day!
Oh man, my son has had his first fall too. Off the bed. I was nanoseconds away from catching him, and I of course called the pediatrician right away. Even though she assured me he was fine, I had a knot in my stomach the whole day. That has to be one of the most horrible feelings ever, but as a mother of little boy, I think I’m in for a few more bumps and bruises.
Sophia, same age as yours, had her first bonk last week. She was in my lap as I sat on our hardwood floor. I was not paying attention as she threw herself backwards and bonked the back of her head on the floor. She was very upset and so was I though she didn’t travel far at all for the bonk. Poor gal, but she’s fine and I’m more weary!
We are awful parents. We have let our Peanut fall three times now. Each time we keep saying NEVER again will we do “this” or “that” because we never want it to happen again. And then we forgot about “the other thing” and it happens again. So sad, but she has been fine every time. Resilient little buggers, aren’t they???
Just for the record, we swear we really aren’t bad parents!!!
If babies weren’t so resilient there probably wouldn’t be so many adults around! I’m sure Monkey will be just fine. I tripped while carrying my son through an open grassy field once. Even though it was a grassy area and my arms had cushioned his fall, he wasn’t a year old yet and as new parents we decided to err on the side of caution and take him to the ER to be checked out. Docs basically told us what they told you. Since then he’s tripped, split his lip open, driven his tricycle off the couch (don’t ask!), dislocated his elbow twice…all without lasting effects. He’s in 1st grade right now and doing very well too! Like another commenter said, it’s a rite of passage for new parents.
Little guy fell twice in the past few weeks and there is nothing that breaks your heart more-even scarier is he has started crawling…. I can’t imagine when he starts walking…