Has Your Child Ever Accidentally Caused You a Physical Injury?

A friend of mine was shaving in front of the bathroom sink with a razor, and his cutie pie little daughter thought it would be funny to "scare daddy." She sneaked up behind him and let out a high pitch scream so loud, that daddy sliced his bottom lip open.

Not me, but my son accidentally headbutted my dad while horse-playing, and they BOTH ended up with a golf ball sized goose egg on their foreheads. UGH

I have knee problems and at three years old, one of SDs came flying at me crying and actually somehow hit kicked my knee. It was swollen for days, bruised for a couple weeks and I limped really bad for a couple days. My babysister was two when she gave me an eager hug with a toy in hand, spilt my lip open and bloodied my nose. She was actually offended at the blood on her toy and her shirt. My older SD also sorta tackled me once a little too hard (they're "eager" with hugs and such LOL) and we both went down and got scratched up. They don't their own their own strength/weight!!! LOL

My daughter gave me a big ol' fat lip when she was one, and the biggest, purplest bruise I've ever had on my knee when she was a little younger than that, all with her big, hard head.

My son gave me a good bruised eye when he was bouncing on my lap at 9 months. I injure myself frequently stepping on his mega-blocks. Talk about pain!! Especially, when I'm getting up to pee at 3 in the morning.

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My second daughter scratched my cornea when she inadvertently backhanded me in the eye while I was feeding her on my lap. EXTREMELY painful and resulted in me taking a trip to the E.R. My third child was a little over a year old when he threw himself backwards in my bed while I was laying down (he was sitting up), landing on my nose and breaking it. My husband was in the room when it happened and we both heard my nose crack. My first daughter wanted me to teach her to blow bubbles with bubble gum. I was happy to do this....and my front tooth crack off in the process. Have NO idea how or why it happened but it did. Yes, children are dangerous to our bodies.

Both of our sons were head butters. With our first, he was a few months old when my husband had his nose rebroken and adjusted to help him breathe better. Holding our sweet little baby, with his big smile, he suddenly grabbed at daddy's ears and headbutted him....in the nose. Yuck!
Bruises, scratches, pokes, all that i totally innocent because they don't know what they're doing, or don't have the steadiness needed for an injury free day. What I did that was a little more serious than the daily stuff was hurting myself when I picked my youngest up too fast (turning and lifting at the same time) and somehow pulled my groin. What???? That was not fun. Did you know everything, even your eye lashes, are somehow connected to the groin? (Ok, maybe not THAT bad, but seriously, every move I made seemed to hurt my groin for a couple weeks). And watch out for stupid little dinosaurs. They are so small that when stepping on them, they're quite sharp and pokey on bare feet. Husband's least favorite: chest hair getting pulled, especially by his nipples. And belly buttons being poked in your sleep.

LOL!!! Alot, My boys are really tuff!!! my first son must of been aroud 2 ,We where sleeping on our couch one afternoon ,and he had got up and got hes Tonka METAL tump truck.(which if anyone knows weighs a TON!) and as I open my eyes I seen it coming at me, He had slamed it on my head so heard a I seen stars. The poking of the eyes and scratching is just them trying to work there corrdination still,And then if there big and stuff they dont know there own strenghth and weight.

Lol. Yup. Welcome to a little discussed phase of motherhood. I am going through it again myself.
I remember the first time around and just being near my DD resulted in some accidental mommy ouchie.
Most notable...she caused me to chip my tooth. :(
Hopefully that won't happen this time around. :)

While cutting my sons hair during the terrible two's he was trying to fight me off kicking and pushing. I had him in a highchair so he couldn't get out and about the time I went to cut some on top he pushed my arm and I sliced my finger open pretty good! Blood was everywhere which made him even more upset!! Needless to say I only cut his hair when my husband is home to supervise now! :)

I know when I was a baby I threw the TV remote and it hit Mom on the head. My niece and nephew kind of pounce on as at times. Bella likes to use my legs like a sort of bridge when I have my feet up which hurts quite a bit since I have knee problems. Then there's the hair pulling which sucks because I have a ton of long hair.

hehehe- I have been eye-jabbed once or twice and nose-smashed (ouch) but my little one seems to save all her real bad ones for my Mother in Law (I feel terrible about it). One time she was quietly watching cartoons while my MIL napped in her "nana's" room, and I had just checked on her and as I walked out. All of a sudden I heard a blood curdling yelp followed by "Holy (---) she just hit me in the head with a hammer!" I ran in and there she was, hammer in hand.... Don't ask me where she got a hammer- thankfully it only resulted in a bruise on poor Nana's forehead!

While struggling to get out of my arms and avoid a family picture, my then 3 1/2 year old knocked me backwards. I tumbled and rolled a$$ over teacup before finally landing 2-3 feet from the bluff edge. I had several bruises, scrapes and was sore for days.

All the time. When my daughter was alittle over a year old we gave her an old phone to play with. Well she accidently hit me in the forhead by the hairline. I tell you I saw stars. It was bruised for a week and even hurt to wash my hair. There has been lots of that. She is playing and hits me and I get a bruise. Nothing major.... so far!

When my 3yr old was a baby, probably around your child's age, he almost broke my cheek bone! He slammed his huge head backwards while I was holding him...my face was sore for days! My other son has also scratched me and poked both me and hubby in the eyes. After several of these incidents, we both have gotten wise and have began to anticipate these accidents! Whenever my children are close enough to me to touch me, I am always on the lookout for sudden moves, probing fingers, flailing limbs, etc. After as many injuries I have suffered, I have to be proactive just to survive! LOL

It happens DAILY in this house. Those ice packs are more for US than the four year old! He's freakishly strong and quick--a deadly combination.

I've had various head butts, scratches, pokes, etc. Their biggest thing right now is always falling/bumping/tripping over my bad ankle. It may be out of the boot now but it's still tender and I don't know how they manage to have a problem when my ankle also happens to be RIGHT THERE. Argh...

I think my mom has me beat though. Years ago, when we were living in CO (I was 5 so that means my brother was about 2 at the time, maybe 3) we were playing with mom on her bed. She was really pregnant (I think this wasn't long before my sister joined us) so she couldn't do much. But she was letting my brother bounce around and stuff. Well, he came down just right against her and snapped her head back pretty hard. My mom said it hurt like hell for a really long time but she didn't think much of it. Then, fast forward twenty some odd years and she has to have special surgery for her shoulder and stuff. They took a bunch of x-rays and the doc thought it looked a little odd so during the surgery they took a look. Sure enough, when my brother had landed against her, the force of her neck jerking back had actually broken her neck but it wasn't enough to snap it completely. So she had some fused vertebra out of the deal. That certainly explained her stiffness and pain for so many years!

Another black eye here. A tantrum from my then 2 yr old resulted in me getting bopped in the face while he was thrashing around. Awesome when you still have to go to work and explain how you now have a shiner.

My 3.5 year old gave me a whip-lash type neck injury and my 1.5 year old gave me a black eye.

While playing outside last summer my then 4 year old asked to be picked up as I bent over she jumped and head butted me right in the chin. It hurt awful. She was crying because her head hurt and I was crying because my jaw hurt. I ended up having to go see my chiropractor to get my neck adjusted since she hit me so hard it knocked me out of joint.

I've been headbutted in the nose several times. I thought for sure I would be going to work the next day with black eyes!! Thank God for ice and arnica...

Sure - it's a badge of honor, but I also try to teach that Mommy and Daddy can get hurt and that's not a good thing. When he was younger his tantrums were head-butters, and he got in some good licks on mine and my wife's facial bones. Now he's 20-months and has a knack for kicking my family jewels when he's sitting in the shopping cart.

When my youngest was about 18 months old she accidentally hit me in the mouth with a toy she was holding and she broke my front tooth.

So far my 11 month old has managed kicking me in the ribs and face, scratching me and getting a handful of skin and causing minor bleeding ( that was when I started using NO) and ripped a few handfuls of hair from my scalp and my fiancé's beard. She has only bitten me once though, and I think that surprised her too.

when my son was about 18 months he butt ended me a mini hockey stick and gave me a black eye.

My daughter was about 1 1/2. I was lying on my bed and she decided to come on the bed also. She started stepping over me again and again. One of those times, she stepped wrong or tripped and fall against my nose. I though she broke it or something. I hurt for a couple of weeks and I could not stand to really touch it near the bridge. talk about seeing stars!
Also, I pulled the tendons on my right hand several years ago. I was not working at the time and helped out at school. Well, one of my kids' classmates fell against my hand. It hurt so bad, reflex made me yell out but. She felt so bad thinking she hurt me.

OK I am a high school teacher about to leave for Spring Break and I am reading this during my last period of the day laughing out loud. My students are looking at me like I am crazy.

I have been head butted and gotten a fat lip. I have also stepped on toys that killed for days. My son has stepped on my foot and actually broke my toe. I love my boys because they are rough and tough, but they do cause much harm to my husband and I.

It did not happen to me but to our neighbor. His twin boys only 3 y/o accidently pushed daddy down the stairs and he broke a leg.

When my son was about 11 months he sat up in bed and then flopped back down...whacking my face with his big head. I cried it hurt so bad! The next day I had a HUGE black eye!!! No more co-sleeping after that!

The worse to date is a broken rib. He kicked me during a diaper change and snap it went. Who knew 19 months was so strong?

Nothing major, but I've been bashed in face (cheekbones, chin, mouth, etc.) by 3 yo DD's cannonball of a head a number of times.

My situation is completely different from most because I've lost practically all of my usable vision. I have light perception though it's truly useless on cloudy days as I can't tell if it's day or night without my screen reader on my computer giving me the time or my talking clock chimes off the time with am or pm. I got tired of the chiming (talking telling the time) every hour on the hour with the am/pm. It gets a bit monotonous after a bit so I keep it close enough to tap the button on top to give me the time with am/pm. So take that into consideration when I write this out.

I've had a corneal abrasion after my youngest began playing w/and reading the small thick-cover books for little children; they're almost cardboard books.

Then, the worst was in 2007. She left our house's Mag flashlight in the living room floor by this behemoth of a coffee table after she went on the hunt to find a toy that somehow managed to get underneath. The only problem was she broke the #1 rule in the house and that was:

1: If you take something out and leave it down or pulled out, ALWAYS put it back b/c Mom can't "see" it.

She didn't. I didn't know the flashlight was there. If any of you have Mag brand flashlights you know these things are practically indestructible. Sadly enough, I'm not. I tripped over it while taking some clothes to the laundry room, which sits off to the left side of our living room on the back of the house and on the front, you have to go through the kitchen then through the spa room (indoor moisture-proof wet room with a 5-7 person hydrotherapy spa room to help with joint disease from Lupus (SLE) and Sjogren's disease along with the aches and pains associated with the diseases.

I went flying over the coffee table the moment my foot hit the flashlight. I remember coming down on the coffee table then hitting the floor. Immediately, I knew I was broken bones and torn ligaments and tendons.

A trip to the ER confirmed it. The ER doc splinted the leg/ankle off then had me go that Monday to my orthopedist as he was certain I would need a cast but the swelling was too great at that point to see the x-rays clearly enough as well as the swelling being so bad he couldn't cast it at the time. This is normal operating procedure with broken bones as I've had them all my life. I'm lactose intolerant, including dairy foods like eggs, not just milk.

Sure enough, first thing Monday morning I had new x-rays and other clinical examination tests then went into a cast from my knee to my toes. I wasn't able to use crutches or a walker because of nerve damage in my right arm in particular but I have it in both; it is worse in the right arm and unable to support my weight on crutches or a walker and I was nowhere near being able to use a cane. I was confined to a wheelchair for 4 months.

I made it through the cast phase and then was in a boot when late one night my daughter wanted a snack. I figured I could handle a snack without the boot so I transferred into the wheelchair and we headed to the kitchen. My house, being as wheelchair unfriendly as most not to mention the fact it's some 40 years now (the house is almost if not older than I am), I had a time getting my hands on what I needed. One thing in particular was a saucer for her apple slices with cubed cheese. I was on a medication to help prevent lactose /dairy problems at the time so I could actually eat a cube or two of cheese without it throwing my system for a loop. I couldn't reach the saucer so I thought if I stood on my good leg, I could reach it in the dishwasher. I lost my balance and before I knew it, I had placed every bit of my weight on the bad leg breaking everything all over again and tearing the ligaments and tendons all over again as well. - It was back to the 4-month cast and continued wheelchair use only.

It took a full year and about a month when I finally healed enough to come out of the cast, out of the boot, and begin physical therapy again even though the doctors had no hopes of my ever walking again given the results of the bone density scan. By all rights, I should have been wheelchair bound 10-some years ago and I shouldn't have made it out of that chair in 2007/2008 but I did. I don't know how but I did. It took everything in me not to give up.

L., the best thing you can do to protect you and your spouse as well as other siblings is to keep any sharp, or even dull dangerous items that can be used to poke or prod out of reach. Baby proof that house, especially now with your little tyke becoming mobile. I'd almost swear mine went from crawling straight to running and missed out on the walking altogether. LOL!

Another good idea if she's a climber is to anchor furniture like chest of drawers, and such to the wall so she can't pull them down on her. Mine did that to herself as well after figuring out at around 6-mos that she could pull each drawer out to make a series of steps to climb to the top of the chest of drawers in her bedroom. I thought I was going to die when I heard the crash and realized what had happened. While she was at the ER with my husband and MIL, he had his brothers, my brother, and our nephew putting in anchors to furniture and padding everything including our tall but wide and beautiful fireplace hearth. That was a bit tough because when we had a night together without kids underfoot, we'd have a small picnic by the fireplace but in time we had it back. It was well worth the wait b/c this kid was as rambunctious outside as she had been inside. When she went to bed, she would, and even still at times now, goes around and around in circles in her bed with one minute her feet at the bottom of the bed w/head on the pillow then less than an hour later she was in the opposite direction with feet on the pillow and head at the foot of the bed. LOL! She's a pip but I love her as does her dad.

Best of luck with your little one. She's most certainly finding her bearings and exploring what she can in her little world. Get down on her level and find all the things she can find that she can use to hurt herself, others, and most especially you and your husband. you'd be surprised at what you find down at her level of the floor. It's scary!

My oldest son broke my nose flinging his head back when he was 6 months old!

My son broke my husbands nose and my daughter broke my nose--they both must have incredibly hard heads.

Yes, when my youngest son was about 2. I was leaning over him to pick up clothing (he was helping) and he did not see me bending over. He got up from the floor too fast and hit my jaw with his head-broke 2 teeth...

My two year old jumped into the pool thinking I was ready to catch him and he clipped my nose with his chin and broke my nose. Oy, did that ever hurt and bleed :)

I've been head butted under the chin and in the nose on more than one occasion -and it HURTS. My nose bled! "Accidentally" as well -I chalked it up to not being old enough to understand exactly how much it was going to hurt -my oldest, when he was about 11 months old -was playing with his wooden Thomas train set. It was a very early weekend morning -and it was my morning to get up, but I dozed off on the sofa while he was playing. That was a bad idea. I was woken up by a piece of the train track busting me in the mouth! I'm pretty sure my little one had never heard that language before! It really did scare him -as much as it did me -but I was the one with a bleeding and busted lip! I'll never forget his poor little baby face as he followed me into the bathroom and the blood started pouring through my fingers. He registered as much astonishment and concern as an 11 month old can! I think it really shocked him that he had done that. The other bad one was last fall -I was getting my youngest out of his car seat at his preschool on my way to work. He reached up to me for me to pick him up and accidentally jabbed my eyeball with his thumbnail. It sliced my eyeball pretty terribly and a trip to the eye doctor, drops and about a week's worth of looking like I had the worse pink eye ever ensued...

oh wow lets see.. my kids are 2 1/2 and 6 months old atm....so
scratches all over..from both babies :)
black eye *son head butted me on accident*
swollen lip,
sore nose
loss of hair ;)
broke my toe
bite marks
I've had my eye poked
pinched
I could probably go on lol

For me my dd has given me several fat bloody lips, and a swollen nose never broke it. and as for dh well lets say he has learned not to wear loose sleepwear with out underwear on. she has a habit of grabbing his manhood and pulling/squeezing really hard. out of no where too. if he does not have a shirt on nipples are fair game. he tends to get the brunt of the casualties.

My oldest daughter broke my nose with a remote.

At one, my oldest son was under foot and in the process of trying not to step on him, I accidently kicked an ottoman and broke my toe. Also, when my son was about 2, he dropped a toy phone on my husband's face while he was lying on the floor. Gave him a black eye. Painful for my husband,but I couldn't help but laugh. Thanks for asking this question. I just laughed so hard I had tears running down my face.

Oh gee. The most memorable injury was when my 2nd son, who was under 1 at the time, was sitting on my lap while I chatted with my friend at her house. It was getting to be dinner time, so we were on our way back home, which was just down the street 4 houses. DS leaned forward, then slammed himself backwards, hitting my nose with his very hard head.

Amazingly, I didn't get a bloody nose, but I saw stars and nearly passed out. I don't remember if he cried, but if he did, I didn't do anything about it. My friend must have soothed him. I just leaned over and laid down on the floor and stared straight forward for a long time. I was dizzy and nauseated and didn't want to move. My husband was going to be working late that night, so my friend just went ahead and made dinner while I laid on her floor. I think it was at least an hour before I felt good enough to walk home.

lots of similar scratches on my face (keep nails trimmed), and now bruises from bites.. lol vicious baby

been through all the head butting accidents, the scratches, the bruises from getting hit with toys accidentally.

The topper though ... I was laying in bed on my side, my daughter comes to climb in bed with me and STEPS FULL FORCE on my NIPPLE. Talk about seeing stars. I think that was worse than all the other stuff the 3 of inflicted on me over the years.

Everyday. Today we were in the park and she went in the slide first and when she get up I went, just as i went she decide to sit right there and I had to stop my self with my ands and burn them, ouch.
Then the other day I was doing a push up and she jump in my back and I hit my lip, ouch.

Swollen lips, bumped head, the usual :)