Sunday, March 14, 2010

How long does it take a bruise to fade?

I may have mentioned once or twice on here about Evie being a somewhat less than graceful child, prone to walking into walls and tripping over flat surfaces...

The other night I was just settling into bed, looking forward to a half an hour (or so...) of quiet reading time. I had been relaxing for less than 5 minutes when there was a truly awful noise from the kids room, followed by a heart-rending howl of pain. You never really know how fast you can move until you hear one of your children scream in pain and terror...


She had fallen out of her bed and managed to catch the side of her face on the corner of her dresser as she fell. Poor baby. Fortunately it didn't cut her, just a lovely long welt and bruise down her left cheek. If you look closely she also has a black eye and bruise on her forehead that had just reached the yellow/green healing stage from a few days earlier when she had the lid of the blanket box dropped on her face. (Unsympathetic mother that I am, I chastised her for playing in the blanket box before I kissed the hurt better...)

Have I mentioned that she is going to be a flower girl in a wedding next Saturday? I apologize right now Janessa, I have tried to explain to her that you don't want a flower girl that looks like a prize fighter... I don't know how much she was listening to me though.


I took Lila in for her 15 month well check at the doctor's earlier this month. Her stats really surprised me, she was 70% for height, 30% for weight. I have never had a child under the 50% for anything, so she is definitely my smallest baby. Of course, her head is still in the 90%...


...which is probably why she looks like this. Huge bruises all over her gigantic cranium.


She bruised her forehead last Saturday when she fell off a chair at my Grandma's house. A day or two later she tripped over the rocking chair rockers and went head first into the door jam at full speed. This one scared me bad enough to scramble for a flashlight and check her pupils while speed dialing the doctor's, and after 3 kids I don't scare that easily. But it ended up being nothing worse than a goose egg and very prominent bruise, which was hitting the lovely greeny-yellowy stage until tonight when she slipped in the tub and smacked the exact same spot for the third time this week! I am worried she is going to have a soft spot on her head if this keeps up, my poor top heavy baby.

3 comments:

Dinee said...

I think it's time you install some rubber walls at your house. Do they sell foam furniture? Perhaps look into that as well :)

Emilie said...

The irony of it all is there was not one mention of Jake in all the bruising festivities.

Poor Lila, I know too well what top heavy children get themselves into.

Amanda said...

Ouch! Good thing kids seem to heal more quickly than adults. Grace was also a big-headed beauty. Between her giant head and her tiny little feet, I thought she'd never be able walk.

I think I taught Janessa in primary when Darrel and I were first married! Your Aunt Kamra was in our ward in Farmington. Small world. I'm sure Evie will be looking lovely come wedding day...or maybe that's just enough time to get another shiner. Let's hope not!