Warning: Rolling babies and powercords don't mix

[HotI]

A reminder that you have to be so vigilant with little kids.

I was sitting on the couch and my 8 month old rolling machine was playing on the floor. She went around the end of the couch and then around the back. I couldn't see her but was listening to her talk to herself.

I had a dressmakers dummy out at the end of the couch and saw it start to wobble. I jumped up to catch it as it slowly fell across bub. I caught it before it hit her and stood it up again, and then noticed that she had been rolling across the vaccuum cleaner power cord and it was wrapped around her body and once across her neck.

I quickly loosened the cord and released the bub. Thankfully, she was fine but it could have been nasty. If she had just rolled once more, or i hadn't noticed that she was caught up.....

As the power cord was attached to vaccuum and plugged into wall high up it was quite tight around her body, and she got stuck like that in just a minute or two.

hug your bubs. i'm sure hugging my little terror

[Cassius2]

big hugs babe it totally rattles you when that stuff happens...which it does from time to time (so dont be too hard on yourself...nice glass of wine to cool off tonight lol!)

[ss_storm]

you (the general 'you' not specifically 'you'!) don't often realise things are dangerous until something happens. Glad she is ok, and hope you are ok too!

[CinderToriella]

Glad you are both ok sweety..
Its very true how these things can happen at the blink of an eye

[onthefly]

See, I never would have thought of that. Good save mum

[Miss.September]

How scary! Yep, not something I would've thought about either.

[human bean]

Thanks for the heads up.

Really glad all is okay

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

Damn kids, will do anything to get our attention.. in the blink of an eye... GREAT SAVE THOUGH

[Just Me]

It is so scary when it happens - I often don't realise how dangerous normal everyday object can be until we have a near miss. The worst one was with DD1 when she was 18 months old with a bean bag. She was playing on it and I was watching her, I turned around for a couple of seconds and turned back to find her head first in the bean bag and unable to get out. I pulled her out and she gasped for air. It was scary. I felt so silly for not thinking that a bean bag could be dangerous even for an 18 month old being supervised. Our bean bags have been put where our kids can't get to them at all now.

I am so glad your bub is okay. I hope you are okay too ... incidents like that can leave you feeling very shaken

[MummaSue]

They're wee rascals hey?