OUCH!

We had our first traumatizing parent moment back in January. Sorry for the graphic pics but I wanted to document it! I was putting Savannah to bed (so it was dark) and she was opening and closing her dresser drawers. She was pulling really hard on one particular knob and the knob flew off and she flung back. She was crying unusually hard but I didn't think much of it because she was tired and the knobs of her dresser come off sometimes. I calmed her down quickly and put her in her crib. A couple hours later when I was getting ready for bed I noticed I had blood on my shirt! I thought maybe Sav bit her tongue or something but it couldn't have been too bad because she fell asleep easily. At this point I was starting to feel guilty that I had downplayed her fall. So when she woke up at 1 am I ran in her room curious to see what really happened...this is what I found...



I WAS FREAKING OUT! Savannah was all bloody too. I still thought something had happened to her mouth, but we soon found a nasty cut on her finger. I looked at the knob to find half of it still stuck to the dresser with jagged edges. An 18 month old baby was able to break a glass knob off her IKEA dresser in half?! I wanted to rush her to the ER or after hours clinic, but Josh thought he would wrap it and she would be just fine. After an hour of scrubbing blood out of her room...Sav was acting normal. I put her back to bed at 2:30 and she went right down. I didn't get much sleep that night. I couldn't stop thinking about the whole situation...that I was rocking my poor baby right after it happened, her finger dripping with blood and I innocently put her in her crib. What a horrible mother...if only I had seen what had really happened! I was up early calling a sub and the doctor. We went in and found out that she should have probably gotten stitches, but it was too late. He decided to put 3 loose stitches in to help it recover a little faster. SO, they strapped her down in the papoose and began the procedure. It was awful..my poor baby was being tortured and the was nothing I could do about it. It makes me sick just thinking about it. She fell asleep on the way home and has acted fine ever since! That night she was even trying to put her finger puppets on her little bandaged finger! Savannah has been such a trooper...here she is before the stitches...

and after the stitches...

AND this has been her cute face throughout the whole ordeal...


We have called IKEA. The dresser and its knobs were already on recall for same exact thing. Go figure! New knobs are on their way. They are hopefully paying the bills as well. As traumatizing as this all was, I am so grateful for a happy, healthy baby. I have heard the most awful stories about families and their children this past month and am so lucky we just have to deal with a hurt finger!

Many more posts to come...I am falling behind!