Biggest injury to date
Today I feel awful. I'd say I feel like a horrible mother, but in reality I'm actually a pretty good mother so I won't cheapen that (though I often do by flippantly saying I'm a horrible mother). However, Lilian suffered an injury while on my watch. And it could have been prevented if I had been more careful, which makes it all the worse.
Lilian learned that our bed was fun while playing on it once or twice with Mommy and Daddy. Now she likes to get into my bed with me before her nap and play. We tickle, we fall on mommy, etc. It's very cute and bonding and awesome. Today we went to gymnastics, where they regularly play under a parachute. She wanted to do that under our blankets. I let her do it in the middle of the bed and that was fine. But then she got a little closer to the edge and was trying to lift the blankets to go under, and I tried to get her to move back toward the middle but, because we were playing, she moved further away from me. Right off the bed. On her face.
Obviously there were lots of tears and I picked her up and held her close for a minute. then I went to assess damage and realized she was bleeding profusely from her mouth. I tried to look to see if she had lost a tooth, but there were too many tears and too much blood. I called for Josh who, luckily, was working from home today so he could hold her while I wiped away the blood and tried to get a look. Her teeth seemed to be intact, but her lip was pretty lacerated. Josh got ice, and that worked for about 30 seconds but then she wasn't interested. He was a smarty and ran across the street to get a popcicle, and that did the trick for a while. I was able to hold it against her lip while she licked it. However, her lip is huge, like a duck bill huge, and split.
Because I'm still relatively new to the mom thing and because I've never actually split my lip, I called the doctor to see what I should do about feeding her and keeping out infection. There was talk about me bringing her in but I figure we'll wait and see. For now she's sleeping and I feel awful :( .
Lilian learned that our bed was fun while playing on it once or twice with Mommy and Daddy. Now she likes to get into my bed with me before her nap and play. We tickle, we fall on mommy, etc. It's very cute and bonding and awesome. Today we went to gymnastics, where they regularly play under a parachute. She wanted to do that under our blankets. I let her do it in the middle of the bed and that was fine. But then she got a little closer to the edge and was trying to lift the blankets to go under, and I tried to get her to move back toward the middle but, because we were playing, she moved further away from me. Right off the bed. On her face.
Obviously there were lots of tears and I picked her up and held her close for a minute. then I went to assess damage and realized she was bleeding profusely from her mouth. I tried to look to see if she had lost a tooth, but there were too many tears and too much blood. I called for Josh who, luckily, was working from home today so he could hold her while I wiped away the blood and tried to get a look. Her teeth seemed to be intact, but her lip was pretty lacerated. Josh got ice, and that worked for about 30 seconds but then she wasn't interested. He was a smarty and ran across the street to get a popcicle, and that did the trick for a while. I was able to hold it against her lip while she licked it. However, her lip is huge, like a duck bill huge, and split.
Because I'm still relatively new to the mom thing and because I've never actually split my lip, I called the doctor to see what I should do about feeding her and keeping out infection. There was talk about me bringing her in but I figure we'll wait and see. For now she's sleeping and I feel awful :( .