Sigh

[lesliepear]

I had a bit of a scare tonight. I had come up the stairs to the apartment building and dropped some stuff and was fiddling with the key to the front door. Alan was on hands and knees apparently having slipped coming up the stairs (I wasn't holding his hand and the stairs were damp). I don't know what happened, but all of a sudden I heard him crying and he was head first downward on the stairs. I picked him up, I held him, I cried oh god - I took his hat off and checked his head, eventually I carried him inside the door and put him down and got the packages. He stopped crying and I held his hand as we went down the 1/2 flight to our floor. By the time I got into the condo he seemed fine. He's acted normal ever since, eating dinner, playing, drawing,  and is out now with Mark (I didn't tell him what happened, he was in the condo at the time) at the supermarket. Mark even called me as he wanted to get Alan a train set (unfortunately we have nowhere to put it here, and MIL was afraid of it being at her place.)

I guess it was the upside down thing that scared me. I'm still a little shook, maybe because he fell at 9 months and lost the teeth or just cause it could have been worse with hard concrete.

Comments

[pywacket.livejournal.com]

it is absolutely terrifying when they fall down stairs. Em fell once and it just freaked me out. I'm still really really touchy about her on our non carpeted stairs and she's almost three.

[fruitbatz.livejournal.com]

god bless him - and you!
when my daughter was his age she did the 'down the stairs thing' twice and ended up in ICU
hugs xxxxx

[amyzon.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, that made me clinch my teeth!

Connor did the same thing today, but not on stairs. I was getting ready to head out the door with Dustin for Scouts, when Connor can barreling around the corner after me. He didn't want me to go and was running. He slid on the wood floor and down he went, backwards on his back and head. I couldn't grab him fast enough and he wacked his head on the floor. I cried harder than he did.

He was fine and Craig pushed us out the door. :( Darn babies. They'll make us old women before they're out of the house on their own!

[navygreen.livejournal.com]

It's such a scary thing when our kids fall down like that! I'm glad that he seems okay (I'm just now reading this, and I've already read the post from later where he seems to be fine).

[beckerbuns.livejournal.com]

Eeek! That sounds scary. I'm glad he's okay.