I want to talk about it but I don't want to, if that makes sense?
My baby had a severe hand injury - elder child accidentally closed her finger in the door and it's looking like the baby will part of 1 or 2 of the fingers.
We are watching and waiting for the extent of the injuries to 'declare' according to the plastic surgeon.
I'm at home basically waiting for the fingers to drop off. My baby is so beautiful but I feel so squeamish about this. I can't look at it, it's bandaged at the minute. The hospital made me wash her hand today as I'm clearly not dealing with it. I feel so useless as a mother and support for my child. Dh was there too, thankfully.
People are, naturally, asking me about my child and I can't talk about it without getting upset.
People want to tell me about someone they know who did wonderful things without fingers, hands etc and they mean well. I know it could be worse but I'm really grieving for the perfection that my baby was. Still is perfect but slightly less so.
I'm not being strong here, I'll come to terms with it.
Just to give detail the accident was just a spur of the moment, happened in blink of an eye thing. Nobody's fault.
I'm so sad about it.
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AIBU to be feeling like this about my baby's injury? Upsetting
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TutuEarly · 27/01/2016 19:45
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