DD was playing in the louge just before bed and she leant back and must have thought that I was there and I wasnt and she fell straight back and hit her head hard on the rug thats on our floor boards. She screamed and screamed so she was not knocked out and we put a cold face washer on her head and she calmed bown and then she sat on my knee for a while and then she went to bed, I know if you have concussion that its not good to go to sleep but it was bed time and I dont know if its concussion or she was ready fpr bed anyway?
I have been checking on her and she is sleeping fine, breathing and she isnt dazed that I can tell and she hasnt thrown up.
Should I just leave her asleep and keep checking her or should I wake her and check her?
It probably frightened her more than hurt her. Sometimes when my lot have done something like that and then go to bed not long after I think it's from all the crying and the fright they got that makes them tired, not so much the knock to the head kwim? Just keep checking on her every now and then and see how she goes and if you get worried, call the nurse hotline # and see what they think.
Thanks Trill - yeah and she was megga sleepy before hand and she did get a fright - I could tell by her hysteical crying. I feel terrible - I should have caught her!!
Ill keep checking and if she gets agitated ill get her straight to the ER.
Don't worry too much about it it happens to us all and even if you are right there sometimes you still can't catch them. It's harder on us than it is them too I'm sure LOL.
:hug A few months ago i heard an almighty bang upstairs and ran up to find DD in a heap in front of the bathroom door - she'd run down the hall then tripped about a metre from the bathroom door and flown forwards, landing on her forehead on the bathroom doorframe! She had an immediate and MASSIVE egg on her forehead and we rushed her to A&E because she was wailing and the egg was LITERALLY the size of a goose-egg, more than half her forehead! Anyway she was fine, she got 2 black eyes from the adventure, but the doctor at A&E told me to imagine a band around their head at the level of the forehead but right round the sides and back too - this, she said, is the hardest part of the head and except in RTA's/assaults etc they rarely see serious head injuries in those areas - lots and lots of knocks and bruises, but that's why nature made that bit so tough. She said top of head and base of skull injuries are far more dangerous. Ring the nurse and check, but i'm sure she'll be fine.
oh know poor chool hope she's feeling better. don't feel bad - it happens. Nate fell of the bed the other night and put 2 teeth through his top lip - I was 2 metres away and he was asleep when I had turned away 5 seconds before....
I think they say that as long as they cry straight away, then they are ok. And if its their normal sleep time not long after and tehy go to sleep, then its not too much of a concern. But if you're ever worried, then its best to speak to someone with medical exp, like you did by phoning the nurse thing.
And they all do it - I was sat next to DD on the sofa, when she toppled backwards before I had chance to grab her, and she hit her head hard, poor thing.
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Hit her head HARD...
it happens to us all and even if you are right there sometimes you still can't catch them. It's harder on us than it is them too I'm sure LOL.
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