Ever over reacted when your kid fell because there was just so much blood?
By Sissygrl
@Sissygrl (10909)
Canada
March 1, 2008 5:01pm CST
Today my daughter fell in the bathroom and hit her face on the tub, she didn't have time to catch herself and as soon as i picked her up, i was standing beside her, her mouth was full of blood and i panic'd and called for hubby to come running. She was fine but there was a lot of blood for such a little cut on the lip! it did swell up some too but i got her to chew on some frozen peas.
Have you ever over reacted when your kid or kids have fallen down? I think its almost instinct to think the worst when it happens!!
18 people like this
45 responses
@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
7 Mar 08
Just so you know my friend...headwounds have a tendency to bleed a lot. It is usually not as serious as itlooks. Maybe armed with that info it will help you be calmer in an emergency. We all try hard to show strength when our little ones are hurting. They look to us foer comfort and help, it's important not to go to pieces because this must surely increase their fears.
You'll never ever stop worrying about your kids but you do get used to it...lol.
@SViswan (12051)
• India
6 Mar 08
Well, I don't usually overreact...it's usually my husband who does it when he sees blood or my mother.
But my husband's fine if I talk to him on the phone...so I usually call him up and ask what has to be done (calmly).
The only time I panicked and called him was 3 weeks ago when my older son was carried home...and he was screaming in pain (he usually handles pain well...another reason why I've never had reason to over react). It was a good thing I didn't touch anything and called my husband at once. Turns out he had a fracture. But even at the hospital, I was the one handling my son because my husband couldn't watch him in pain.
2 people like this
@Sissygrl (10909)
• Canada
1 Mar 08
ouch! i usually have a baby gate up from the living room to the kitchen so that when i'm not in the kitchen with her i can stil keep an eye on her. I can't see into the kitchen at what she is doing from the living room!! So just to be on the safe side i keep the gate up. its ceramic tile floor out there! that would hurt to fall on i'm betting.
@luvstochat (6907)
• United States
1 Mar 08
My husband says I always overreact when my kids get hurt. But those are my kids and I hate when anything happens to them. The first time my daughter had a nose bleed at 2 years old scared me it was such a bad one I got scared but it finally stopped.
My son had to go to the emergency room when he was about 2 becasue he fell and hit his head on an end table that scared me.
2 people like this
@webeishere (36313)
• United States
1 Mar 08
Here's a reverse example of over reacting to an injury I had years back. I was at a local hilly park with my daughter and niece who were about 8 at the time. We were running down the hills as fast as we copuld. The girls were near a tree at the bottom when I started to run downhill. So fast that I had no control of my feet anymore also. I saw the girls near the tree and knew they'd get hurt as I could not avopid running into them. Quick thinking me, as I neared them I reached out grabbing each girl to my sides then tossed them aside as the tree neared me. The girls were fine after their slight little fall. now me... I broke 2 ribs and fractured 3 ribs from the impact against the tree. After that episode my nievce overreacted so badly she refused to go to the park anymore with me saying, "I'll get hurt if Uncle Bob goes with me." HAHAHAHA! I still give my niece a hard time when we get near a park and she is nearly 30 now. No she never did go to a park with me again as a child. HAHAHAHA!
HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~
2 people like this
@crazylady (470)
• United States
3 Mar 08
I have six kids and I have been around kids all my life so I don't overreact over most things...but when I see blood coming from the mouth or head I do! My son fell on an escalator at the mall about 5-6 yrs ago at Halloween, and got a tiny cut the size of a pin hole, but man his booboo kept bleeding and it freaked me out. But we used some thing to hold it together (my husband took over cause he had all kinds of these things happen when he was a kid so he was all calm) I was freaking out.
1 person likes this
@worldwise1 (14885)
• United States
2 Mar 08
I think overreacting is what most parents do, Sissygrl, when their kids have a slight accident. It's just a part of parenting. You would think it would become old hat, but it never does. I know I went through it with each of my children -and grandchildren.
1 person likes this
@cynicalandoutspoken (4725)
• United States
2 Mar 08
Nope never. If I don't see bone sticking through the skin or a tooth hanging by a bloody thread then it can't be that bad.
My son cut his head on the edge of his dresser cause he was bouncing on the bed after I told him not to 300 times.
You would have thought his brains were about to come seeping out from a fractured skull there was so much blood. But after he was done throwing a fit and all cleaned up it was just a tiny little scratch. His scar is about as wide across as a dime.
But yeah, mom's always think the worst but I keep my cool through a crisis and only break down when it is over and done with.
1 person likes this
@britany_renee (156)
• United States
2 Mar 08
I, like a couple of your other comments, try not to overreact on the outside so i don't scare the child even more, but on the inside i'm freaking ou! i had a gut wrenching experience happen with my 3 year old son...i had an "unofficial" home daycare...i was in the kitchen cooking lunch and all the kids were in the back bedroom playing as the normally did...when all of a sudden I heard the sound of shattering glass. I ran as fast as I could and about the time i got to the bedroom my son starts wailing in pain. to make a long story short, he had pulled the matress off his bed and were jumping on it, then, i assume, fell into the window, which was shatered all over the floor. There was blood everywhere! I picked up my son and herded the other 5 kids into the living room. Once I found the cut on my son's foot and got it cleaned, i saw the extent of the damage. I could see the ligament in the top of his foot. Hubby and I were down to one car cause mine had broken down, and it was 30 minutes away from me at work, I called the mother of the kids i babysat, and toldher of the sisuation. She came and let me borrow her car so i could take my son to the emergency room. Thankfully none of the other kids (including my 2 yr old daughter) were hurt. I was so proud of my son though. The only time he cried was immediately after it happend and only lasted for 5 minutes or so. Even through the whole ordeal of getting 5 stitches in the top of his foot he was so strong and courageous! I was so proud of him. I think I was more scared than him! It's amazing how strong kids can be! Many adults in that same situation would have freaked out when they got stitches. (i've seen it happen) lol
1 person likes this
@ellie333 (21016)
•
1 Mar 08
No, I always stay calm when that situation happens and deal with it. It is only afterwards I start thinking oh what if and crunble. My son fell in the playground and pu his teeth through his lip and cut and grazed his nose, I was at work at that time when I got a call informing me and the first thing I thought was that he needed a mummy hug and I felt sad that I actually wasn't on hand to deal with. Hope your daughter ok. Its horrible when they hurt themselves, as a parent I know we would rather it be us going throught the pain. Ellie :D
2 people like this
@dont_pick_your_nose (2279)
• Australia
2 Mar 08
Yeah i do it everytime. I try to be as calm as i can... but i guess that's not very calm, i dont want to make things worse by reacting so strongly but you can almost feel it when it is a young child.
1 person likes this
@Sissygrl (10909)
• Canada
2 Mar 08
Yea, as soon as i picked her up there was blood on my shirt and then i started to shake cause i was scared so i called for hubby, he's much more calm in some situations. If it wasn't my own kid, then i tend not to panic as much, i get worried, but i dont panic. Is that odd ?
@queenofarms (1659)
• United States
2 Mar 08
I did it all the time...I have a 16&17 year old and their in to skateboarding and jumping ramps with their bikes..So I get the scare at least once a week..My husband is the calm one...I'll think they have to go to the hospital and he's going its just a scrap...He will live...And yes its our instinct to think the worst..Aren't kids fun?...LOL
1 person likes this
@queenofarms (1659)
• United States
2 Mar 08
I know what you're saying....I have two girls also..I have found raising boys I use more bandages,neosporn and peroxide then with the girls....LOL
@kbkbooks (7022)
• Canada
3 Mar 08
For some reason, any injury in the head area bleeds more than anywhere else. One time I fell and hit my forehead and saw my own blood, and when I started screaming, my younger sister started screaming just from hearing me. I was outside and she was inside. My mother came running out and held a towel to my head and sat with me in the back of the car on the way to the ER. I have to say that, in spite of the complaint that our provincial health system has long ER waits, but as soon as they saw me coming in the door of the hospital with my mother holding the towel to my head, they rushed me into the evaluation room, and I didn't wait long at all.
On the other hand, my son fell once on ice skating rink and opened his chin. When I got him to the ER, they made us sit in the waiting room for about 8 hours. Fortunately because of the cold weather and the fast response of the winter camp counselors, my son's bleeding stopped before I even picked him up. Still I panicked pretty big when the camp called me and said my son had hit his head on the ice and was bleeding. Part of the panic came from my own final experience on the ice when I fell because I fainted while skating. I ended up having a brain surgery because of the problem which caused me to faint. Even though I already knew my son didn't have the same physical problem I had experienced, the idea of him falling on the ice scared me terribly. Except for the stitches he didn't need anything else.
1 person likes this
@arkaf61 (10881)
• Canada
2 Mar 08
Yes it's scary. Wounds in the mouth always bleed a lot no matter how small they are.
It is complicated to sound calm sometimes but it does help the kids. Although I'n known to have over reacted one time or other with mine as well :)
One of the things to help is to have a red cloth to clean up when there's a fair amount of blood. The blood kind of blends in and it looks a bit less scary.
I used to be more or less ok with wounds, falls, breaks, but worse with when they were generally ill. Probably because I know how to deal with the first but am not a doctor to understand the second.
@kimbers867 (2539)
• United States
3 Mar 08
Been there and done that. I remember when my oldest slipped in her little wading pool and busted her lip. I was so queasy, I really thought she lost a couple of teeth because of all the blood!!! My husband is like calm down, but I guess it is a mom thing.
@olivebranch56 (910)
• United States
3 Mar 08
There was 11 years difference in our younger child and our baby, and so with 4 older siblings and 2 doting parents he was spoiled rotten and very loved. I had never wanted a coffee table in my living room because back then 19 years ago, most tables had sharp edges. Well I bought a living room suite and it came with a coffee table and end tables. My son was 2 and was still at the clumsy stage, he came running and tripped, the bottom of his chin hit the edge, and blood started gushing. We got him cleaned up, and saw he was going to have to go have stitches, so off his dad and I go to the ER. Well 2 hours and 4 stitches later we were on our way home, I told my husband the table was going to be given away. When we walked in I noticed the table was gone, talk about over reacting, the whole episode had upset his brother and sisters so much they had taken the table outside and beat it until it broke apart, then they stuffed the pieces in the trash. If you are wondering yes he is still spoiled rotten, and is now 21.
@carmelanirel (20942)
• United States
2 Mar 08
Oh yes, especially in the mouth area, they bleed so much and you think, how many teeth got knocked out or did they cut their tongue. I remember when my oldest son when he was about 2 or 3 and fell out of the back on our van in a gravel driveway in the middle of nowhere..I am glad his Dad and Uncle, both who are great in first aid was there, because I would have lost it..
1 person likes this
@skinnychick (6905)
• United States
2 Mar 08
I only do it really when it comes to mouth because it bleeds so bad. You almost think that a tooth is lost or something. It always looks much worse than it is. Every other cut doesn't seem to bother me at all.
1 person likes this
