My baby had his first injury!

Update: Right in the middle of publishing this... he started crying in his room and it was a non-normal cry - I picked him up and he puked all over! Oh boy... this is going to be quite a night, LOL.

The part that makes this even worse right now is that I pulled a muscle or pinched a nerve in my neck right after I got up this morning and I've been unable to move my neck all day.

Awww, poor little man! You might be in for a rought night!

oh my goodness Faith!! I'm so sorry!!
It's always hard when they're bleeding. My son took a nosedive off the changing table a few months ago and landed on the air purifier. He ended up with a cut on his nose that wouldn't stop bleeding for what seemed like forever, and a bloody nose.

Hope your little guy is ok!

Do you know if he hit his head? I would be worried about a possible concussion, especially if he threw up. I hope he feels better soon!


Matthew split his chin open and had to have it superglued. Another time, he had been to the dentist and his mouth was numb and he didn't realize he bit the inside of his cheek REALLY bad. He had to have a couple of stitches in it. I came really close to passing out with that one.

I can oooohhh and aaawww over anyone's blood and guts, but when it comes to my boys....NO CAN DO!!!!

Awww, poor baby. Just keep an eye on him( I am sure you will). His stomach may be upset if he swallowed his blood or he may have hit his head pretty hard. Or he could just have a stomach bug. Its so hard to be a mommy. But anyway, although I was involved with ambulance work for most of my son's life and could handle all sorts of injuries. its hard when its your own kid. One day he fell off his bike and he landed against one of the bolts which tore his upper leg open. Every time he walked, the fatty tissue would protrude out of the cut. I was so grossed out by it. I hope your little guy is alright. Please keep us updated. I hope your neck gets better too.

Pooor baby! :(

I'm usually ok in the midst of the crisis, but then as soon as we get out of the middle of it, I get all faint and break up.

Several times, and I won't go into them since, although my boys are 42 and 39, it still makes me a little naseous to think about them. And now, I have 3 grandsons and 4 granddaughters and it doesn't get any better. Keep an eye on him. It might be he hit his head or it might be that he swallowed some blood and got upset with the whole injury that made him throw up. Keep your chin up hon. namaste

OMG, I hope that everything is OK! Did you put ice on it? It is so hard when the little ones get hurt!
The first time my daughter left me to babysit my grand-daughter. She tripped, fell, it her face on the end table and got a black eye! It terrified me! I know the feeling if your stomach churning, your heart beating so hard it feels like it is going to jump right of your chest!!
My daughter returned from school and couldn't understand why I didn't call her home! I told her that I called the doctor, and they said that she should be fine. She was thank God!

Poor baby!

My son fell down the stairs when he was younger. It was so scary. I caught him by his diaper, but I just ripped it off him, and he fell down about 6 stairs. He was fine, and I think I was more upset with him. My husband said he didn't know he was crying harder. We took him to the doctor to make sure everything was ok, and the doctor said he was surprised that he didn't even end up with a tiny scratch or any bruising or anything. He's a tough kid!

Since then, he has received several other minor injuries, because he is such a little daredevil. He loves climbing on things, and has since he was about 7 months old or so. He climbed up on his chest of drawers and nosedived off when he was 18 months old. He had a bump on his forehead, but otherwise he was fine. He's jumped off of multiple different things, like the back of the couch, chairs, shelves, anywhere he can climb. No wonder I'm dealing with so many new health problems! He is making me go crazy. :)

Oh my gosh! I hope you didn't have a rough night. How is he doing this morning?

Poor baby

My daughter is now 14 and she's been in gymnastics for 11 years. The worst so far has been a broken foot. (Some of her gymnastics friends have had worse.)
I remember once when she was about 5 how she fell off the bed and saved herself with a forward roll. I joked at the time that the training was paying off.
I feel sorry for your little guy. These things happen, Faith. Hope he heals soon.

Poor little guy! Hope he is okay!!!!!

aww poor little guy, I hope he feels better.

No kids but my cat got attacked by a possum. That was pretty bad. Bit above the eye, lost all her hair, pussy and oozy. She loves to snuggle and just couldn't figure out why I didn't want her in my face. She is better now. Possum didn't fare so well.

OOHHH I hate when the kids get boo boos!! When Kyle was little he was walking with his hands in his pockets and tripped-fell face first into the crease of the wall hard! Split his forehead right open! Blood everywhere-in his eyes-oh I thought I would pass out! I thought I could see bone in the cut-turned out to be a paint chip from the wall-by the time he started getting stitched up HE was asking the ER DR to give me something too calm down!! LOL! He was a pro at this-2cd time for stitches and he was only 5!! :)

Oh, I'm so sorry for him and you. I hope he and you gets better.

My oldest daughter was playing around and slipped and fell and her top teeth went into her bottom lip and it freaked my and my husband out! We didn't take her to the ER right away but it was getting infected because it was smelling so we took her to the doctor and they gave her a shot of antibiotics and it healed right away.

I'm sorry again, it's not fun when your children get hurt, hugs for him and you!

My youngest boy hit his head so many times that he broke a bunch of blood vessels in the back of his eyeball and I had to put a helmet on him for a year. I think he has a permanent crease on the top of his head from hitting it so often. I lost my mind with this. No mother can stand seeing her baby hurt.

The other two had their share of stuff also.

My older relatives always told me that it is amazing that they survive childhood.

Blessing to you and your family Faith.

Every injury to one of my children made my heart ship a beat. I hope all is well this morning.

Yes, My daughter was jumping and fell with a toy in her mouth. It left a big gash in her mouth. I was told if it would of been any further back. There was nothing they could of done about it. That they can't fix that part of the mouth.

Another time my middle son somehow cut his baby toe almost off. All they did was super glue it together and sdaid stay off the foot. I still don't know how that happen and his teen brother stilll won't confess.

My son knocked his front baby tooth out when he was learning to ride his bike without training wheels when he was about four. It was so horrifying! I made all the neighbor kids look for his baby tooth and then we rushed him to the dentist to get it put back in, but they said that it was extracted cleanly and to just leave it. I felt so bad for him! Then he needed stiches on two other occasions too - once under his chin and another time above his lip and both left small scars :-( Boys are just very accident prone. I hope your little baby gets some good sleep and forgets all about his boo-boo.

A mom sure knows when that cry is serious! I hope your son is better soon! And YOU too!

Probably the hardest time for me was when my daughter hit her forehead on some stairs. Head wounds ... well you know. She was fine after a few stitches, but her mother took a little longer to recover. LOL!

Faith, I am so sorry..sure hope he is better. I have no children but I know it must have made you sick....it always hurt me so badly when my nieces and nephews got hurt, - I sometimes would cry right along with them...........still do today and two of them are 19!

This has to be the scariest thing in the world. As a parent, I can sure identify--and we know what the various screams mean, too! Good luck. Your baby is lucky to have you for a mom!

I can't believe you let my baby be hurt! Shame on you!

No! Seriously, it happens. When Klayten was just a little younger than Rylan, and hadn't been walking long,, he slipped on our tile and fell face first. He was holding a hot wheels when he fell, and by the time I jumped off the couch to grap him, he already had a goose egg on his forehead that was the perfect imprinted of that car and stood out about an inch an half. Scared the heck out of me! Of course, he's my accident prone child, and after the sixth set of stitches I've mellowed alot! :-)

Poor guy. :( I remember the first time DD fell down the stairs onto the stone tile floor in the living room. NOT a great moment for me.

Awww! I'm so sorry... I guess the first injury had to hapen sometime.

I'm so sorry to hear your son had an accident Faith. I sure hope the two of you were able to sleep in this morning.

Oh - how horrible. I don't know how I surivived my own childhood. I didn't mean to crash into everything, and fall off, and fall in, but there I went.

Yikes !!!

I have 2 kids and can't count the number of times they have been hurt. My son was the worst. He's the youngest and the daredevil in the family. He has had stitches a few times, all in his head. He has more accidents than my daughter because if him being willing to try anything.
I know I have many more years of this, my kids are only 9 and 7.
Hope things are better with your baby. Hope you both got a little rest.

Faith I hope the little guy is doing better tonight. I can only imagen the fear you felt when you seen the blood.
My parents called me at work when my oldest was about 1 1/2 he was running through the house fell and hit his mouth on the bottom pat of the kitchen counter, its pretty sharp. He wouldnt let them look at it so I come rushing over, I grabbed him up flipped his lip up, looked at the inside cut, and checked his teeth. Everything was fine there, then I checked out the dripping blood from his top lip on the outside. We put liquid bandage on it. The next day while I was at work he riped it off and it was fine. Hes got a scar from it, but I think if he would had had stitches it would have been a nastier scar.

Everyone - wow, thanks for the responses! I hope to get back to everyone of you really soon. Rylan seems to be doing fine today - he went back to sleep about an hour after he threw up and I'm assuming like some of you said that it was because he swallowed blood. Ick! His lip is all puffed up and that's about it!

OMG this is really very sad Faith.

ooh poor little guy... hope he feels better and you too... Blessings...

hi ya, gurL.....oooh poor sweetie...and poor YOU per your neck!...glad he is better now

the worst accident i recall my son having when a toddler was at a park....a friend from work and i were sitting on a bench while my son ran around the playground...i kept glancing his direction while talking...in between glances he managed to climb a tall slide and i caught a glimpse of him falling from the top of the ladder....i have never ran that fast in all of my life...a guy who turned out to be a dentist reached him first... i feared he had a broken neck,or limbs,but a quick visit to the doc confirmed he was ok...i felt sick to my stomach,so i can relate to how you felt about Rylan's accident...

hugs to ya both....gayle

My children have ALL done this. When I was little I put all 4 front teeth through my bottom lip, two lines all the way through it. I still didn't get stitches, just gave me a wonderfully full bottom lip without plastic surgery... hehe.

My 5 year old lost a fingernail to a slammed door when she was 2 1/2 or so.
The same daughter also knocked her head sooo hard. There was a lump in it where cartiledge built up but it was not fractured. It was like she had a kilngon forehead with the ridge down the middle for a couple months.

I am sure that yours will give you many other turned stomaches. When my daughter lost her fingernail it almost made me pass out. I won't got into details there... yuck.

The upset tummy was probebly from swallowing blood from his nose and lip... when kids are sensitive to it, it will most likely happen after every bloody nose or lip, so watch for it.

we visited the ER with my son 3 times within 3 months when he was about 2.
The first time he was climbing a little tykes slide and underneath was a bees nest. No one knew and he got stung by 5 bees. We went to the ER it was terrible. It broke my heart. The next incident my son stole q tips when he was 2. He got them and ran with it in his ear. He jammed it in his ear and there was blood everywhere. Oh my god I was horrified back to the ER he was fine, no permanent injuries but scared the death out of me. Q TIPS are still taboo in my house and are on the high shelf!!!

The last incident was when he was almost 3. He thought he was WONDER BOY he jumped off my couch BOUNCED off my speaker and cracked his noggin. I was in my pajamas, my husband was at school, my friend 2 houses down drove us to the ER in her jammies. It was horrendous.They glued his head together luckily it was not a jagged cut. I was freaking out because you know... blood gets to you especially when its your childs!

THANK GOD we have had no more trips to the ER , I chalk it up to terrible 2's ( although the bees could have happened to anyone)

Its tough when you see your baby hurt!

Hope Rylan's feeling better

Oh that poor baby! I hope he is feeling better

Awww!! That poor thing! :(

glad he was "ok"...
we put our coffee table away for years because of the kids...when the oldest daughter was 6 and the youngest 4, we brought it out...the very next day, the oldest daughter went running through the house, tripped and hit her face on the coffeetable (good thing it had rounded edges)...the next day we left for a week at the beach (where nobody knew us and we were out in public all the time)...her eye was black and blue and bloodshot...we worried someone was going to arrest us!

I hope he is doing better