Boys Will Be Boys?!

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boys will be boys 2Amazon has an awesome deal on bubble wrap! No, I haven’t lost my mind, I have a little BOY, OMG! My first born is a girl; a sweet, gentle, semi quiet, sassy little girl. So you know that saying “boys will be boys,” whoever said it, THEY WERE RIGHT! My 19 month old little boy is all BOY. He climbs, balances on the back of the couch, crawls across tables, turns things over to stand on, and stands on top of ride-on toys, you name it! I knew he would be my first child to go to the ER for stitches. My foot is in my mouth for joking about that one.

IMG_0665Ugh, so I had a girlfriend and her two kids over for a nice relaxing play date, so we could catch up and the kids could quietly sit in the other room and read nursery rhymes. Sense the sarcasm? See where this is going?

BOOM, and then they crying begins! I run into the play room to get my son and see what caused the comotion. My baby boy climbed into his sister’s doll stroller, facing the handles, and fell flat onto his face. I picked him up and blood, blood, ohh I saw blood. It dripped onto the floor and I couldn’t tell where it was coming from because his entire mouth was filled with blood. Did he bite his tongue off, are all of his teeth knocked out, will he be okay?!

Grady ERSo like the hero I am, panic sets in and the cold sweats take over my body. I rush him to the sink to see if I can clean him up and calm him down. One paper towel soaked through, now two paper towels saturated. I’m getting light headed, no I think I’m about to puke, no wait, I’m definitely going to faint. The bleeding stopped quickly, it felt like several hours, but I’m pretty sure it was less than a minute. But back to me, I had to sit down! My poor friend thought she was going to have to call an ambulance FOR ME. I couldn’t compose myself! She had to tell me to breathe in through the nose and out through my mouth! I don’t know if it was the fear of not being able to see in his mouth and see where he was cut, the fact that he was hurt, or the blood? Why couldn’t I compose myself when my baby needed me? This is the part that scared me the most.

The cut was more of a puncture to his lip and not fully “opened”.  We didn’t take him in until the next morning at 7AM when he woke up, and the cut was completely opened. The ER gave him a stitch which he broke less than an hour after we got home. Waste of the morning. So we went on a trip to the plastic surgeon! The plastic surgeon told us in the future, to come straight to them and bypass the ER for facial/mouth lacerations. 5 more stitches later we are healed and well. The lesson of the story, get a plastic surgeon on speed dial! Stat.

Have any other mommies experienced similar situations? Do you believe in the saying, “boys will be boys”? 

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Melissa
I am a stay at home mom to my daughter Penny and son Grady who will be 2 in November. My husband and I were both born and raised in Norwalk, had the most magical wedding at the Maritime Aquarium, and currently reside in, wait for it, Norwalk!! When the kids are napping my “me time” is focused on my direct sales business, Younique. I love sharing make up with women, giving them confidence and making them feel beautiful! Being able to stay connected to adults outside of the normal day to day errands of running to Stew’s or finding a new playground to keep my children entertained is an added bonus too!

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