This evening we were getting the kids ready for their shower with Daddy and our 15 month old daughter had her tooth brush. Just as Daddy was opening the shower door she ran forward with the toothbrush in her mouth and the door hit it. Pretty much every parents fear when their child has a long object in their mouth! Hubby is shattered that he contributed to it Her mouth instantly filled with blood as she started screaming. I held her over the sink so the blood would come out of her mouth rather than her swallowing it. Whenever I blotted her mouth with a facewasher she would get more distressed, and when I tried to look in her mouth she would get more upset as well. The blood was slowing so I figured it was better to just comfort her in case the screaming was making it worse. She's a brave little thing and calmed down quickly. She loves the shower so we still let her have a shower to help rinse her mouth. Once I had her out and dressed she snuggled on my knee while I breastfeed the baby (who unfortunately woke and was crying when we came out of the shower ). Then I gave her a breastfeed as well and was able to get her to open her mouth to have a look while I shone the bright light from my phone in there. It looked worse than I thought it would

There's a wound sort of where the top and bottom gums meet on the right side, where the cheek starts changing to throat (you will probably understand better if you stick your finger in your mouth and have a feel). The wound is gaping quite a bit. It's about 1cm long and gaping open nearly a cm as well. It's not bleeding though and she doesn't seem too bothered by it. She was moving her mouth a little bit strangely because it must hurt a bit, but when I was feeding her she was holding her foot to my mouth for kisses and giggling, so it can't be too painful. And now she's gone to sleep without any issues.

When I saw the wound though I was tempted to take her to the hospital, but hubby convinced me to see how she goes overnight and have a look at it tomorrow. What would you have done in the same situation? I'm really hoping that it doesn't hurt her too much and heals up really quickly. Poor little cherub.