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My one-year-old has broken my nose

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AveAtqueVale · 06/06/2019 22:00

I have no reason for posting other than I'm feeling miserable with the most cracking headache, and DH has gone off to work so I'm stewing alone. Was getting DS2 changed for bed and he objected to me taking his top off, so flung himself backwards full force, sending the back of his head straight into my nose. I felt it crunch and it bled profusely, and is now very swollen and I have the beginning of two lovely black eyes. This is the second time he's done this, though last time it was a deliberate forwards head-butt because I was holding his hands to stop him hitting me Hmm. It's also only a couple of months since he flung a kilo weight onto DH's toe and broke it. He's not even two. I genuinely don't think we're going to make it through the next 16 and a half years in one piece.

Please tell me violent toddlers turn into lovely gentle children?

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gamerchick · 06/06/2019 22:03

IME with 3, the worse they are before 5, the better the ride in the teenage years.

Whether that's universal, I don't know. Grin

Poor you though, get some ice on it Flowers

TrueFriendsStabYouInTheFront · 06/06/2019 22:03

Ouch!!! Poor you Sad I can relate as my DD1 did the exact same thing to me but knocked one of my front teeth out!

She's gentle now if that's any consolation?! Get yourself to the hospital first thing!!

BendyBusBuggy · 06/06/2019 22:04

My DS chippedy tooth. Twice.
He's lovely and well balanced

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BendyBusBuggy · 06/06/2019 22:05

That was meant to say 'chipped my'

Justmuddlingalong · 06/06/2019 22:08

I knew it was the backwards header move, just by reading your thread title. Ouchy, ouch. 💐

sheshootssheimplores · 06/06/2019 22:10

My youngest would head butt me so regularly I nearly lost a front tooth 😬

TurnTheRadioUp · 06/06/2019 22:11

DD once scratched DH's eye. He is not a complainer but it was apparently excruciating.

Placid is not quite the word to describe her but she's not prone to physical violence any more Grin

NoWordForFluffy · 06/06/2019 22:13

Yeah, my DD gave DH a corneal abrasion with her fingernail. Not good.

DS almost broke my nose the same way as yours. I saw bloody stars at the time!

Bipbopbee · 06/06/2019 22:14

DD did that backwards head fling when she was about 10 mths . Didn’t break my nose but I saw stars and by god it hurt.
Feel your pain OP hope you feel better soon Flowers

PhossyJaw · 06/06/2019 22:14

Mine did the same when he was two, coming in for an extra-enthusiastic hug when I was lying in bed. Agony. Plus I kept having to say I wasn’t suffering from domestic abuse.

Tutlefru · 06/06/2019 22:15

Those backward headbuts are bloody painful!

Hope you’re feeling better soon OP

OnlyYellowRoses · 06/06/2019 22:20

Ouch get well soon! Hope it's not too painful 😖
My youngest DC is queen of the head butting injuries. She blacked both my eyes and split my lip putting my front tooth right through the day before I started my new big important job. I had to stand and address my 20 new staff the next morning looking like I'd be jumped in a alley 😂 luckily they were very forgiving

Tavannach · 06/06/2019 22:21

Paracetamol for pain relief and to help swelling.
Arnica cream will help with the bruising. You can also get homeopathic arnica pills - must taken in a clean mouth so no tea, coffee, chocolate or mint for the 15 before and after. If it gets better stop taking the pills, if it get worse stop taking them.

Has a doctor seen it? I'd be pitching up at A and E or an emergency GPs appointment tomorrow tbh, in case it needs setting.

The toddler will get better. Let him know that it hurts and that that's unacceptable.

kaytee87 · 06/06/2019 22:22

I broke my ankle in 4 places, 2 of them displaced.
Whilst I was sitting in my living room with ankle up discussing with DH when we could get me to hospital, ds (who was 17mo) hit me on said ankle with a full shampoo bottle Shock the pain was like nothing on this earth.

MrsMozartMkII · 06/06/2019 22:24

Ah. Yes. The backwards headbutt. Bloody painful!

Hope you heal quickly and well lass!

holdupwaitamin · 06/06/2019 22:27

Arent kids evil!!!?? OMG. I'm wincing at these

Ohyesiam · 06/06/2019 22:27

Get some ice on it op, and get it assessed ASAP x

foreverhanging · 06/06/2019 22:33

God it fucking hurts when they do that :( you poor thing.

My dd is a kicker. She also has head butted my jaw in a strop and made my teeth crack together.

I find it SO hard not to shout (and often do) in pain.

LaMarschallin · 06/06/2019 22:45

Poor you - sounds very painful.

Please tell me violent toddlers turn into lovely gentle children?

My eldest nephew was very violent. Couldn't be left alone with his baby brother as he had tried to kill him. Literally. Once picked up a rock on the beach and hit me on the head with it, hard enough for me to briefly lose consciousness. Used to hang around the cloth tube thing at Tumble Tots and wait for another child to start crawling through it then kick hell out of them as they were stuck in there and couldn't get away quickly enough.
Trying to remember how old he was when his behaviour settled. It did take a while.
What I can say is that he's a lovely man now and my favourite nephew. I thought he was going to be a serial killer!

TheFutureMrsB · 06/06/2019 23:51

DS4 hit DP so hard in the mouth with his bottle that he cracked his front tooth which ultimately had to be removed and he now has a false tooth, 7 years on DS4 is absolutely lovely haha

Redcherries · 07/06/2019 06:58

My ds was the same, but also a biter, we couldn’t go to soft play 😢. He’s an incredibly responsible teenager, although he can get stroppy on occasion. Dd was incredibly placid as a toddler, her younger teen years were interesting but she’s calming back down now.

Those backward head butts are the worst, it’s years since I had toddlers but I knew as soon as I read your title. I hope it’s feeling better this morning.

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AveAtqueVale · 07/06/2019 08:39

Haha reading some of these is making me feel slightly better. It's not too sore this morning but the bruising is epic and I'm about to spend all day in a meeting with people I don't know. So this'll be fun....

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JuneFromBethesda · 07/06/2019 09:10

I'm another one who ended up with a torn cornea thanks to my daughter's fingernail, although to be fair she didn't mean to do it! It's probably the most painful thing I've ever experienced (I suppose giving birth was marginally worse)

Sympathy OP it sounds so painful. Hope your day isn't too awful and the bruising clears up quickly ...

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