Who knew that the soft, delicious little head of a baby could be hard enough to cause damage to an adult face? I am here to tell you all that it is.
I had brought Evie to bed for her morning breakfast, and after she finished her bottle, she was using me as her own personal gym. Laying on my side, I was blocking her from crawling off the bed, I had the comforter wadded up on the other side, serving as a soft wall to block her that way. She's not old enough to realize that she can just crawl over it and I'm not going to tell her.
Anyway, she was scooting and crawling and climbing and generally squirming around between the comforter wall and me, having a merry time. As it was sometime around 7 am, I was a bit groggy. At one point, she was standing with her bum against me; I was holding out my arms to keep her from falling forward into the mattress.
Suddenly I saw a blinding flash of light and felt searing pain shoot from between my eyes. I then realized that the bridge of my nose was inside out...Evie had done a swan dive backward and, using her head, landed directly on my nose, hitting it like a very tiny, very cute, but very hard sledgehammer.
Not wanting to scare her, I just sat there, eyes watering, holding on to her with one hand, other hand gripping my face. I took her back and put her in her crib, and then went to assess the damage. My nose was immediately starting to swell, I could feel my heart beating in my face. Within 30 minutes, two tiny little blue lines started to appear under my eye lids.
It's been a couple hours since she beat me up and I can no longer breathe from my nose at all. It hurts to put on my glasses, but as I have no other way of seeing, I must wear them regardless.
My nose is not obviously swollen, just puffy and the bruising is slight, but still there. Amazing that such a tiny person can already beat the crap out of me.
Like a waterfall in slow motion, Part One
2 years ago
2 comments:
Oooh. Ouch. I've heard of moms having their noses broken by toddlers bucking backward while being held. I'll say it again - motherhood isn't for wussies.
have you gone to the dr. yet to make sure its not broken?
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