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I feel so bad

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Jamontoast123x · 29/01/2025 06:20

I was washing up and tidying the kitchen yesterday, my kids were playing in the front room when I heard a loud bang. My 18 month old had fallen off the sofa onto the corner of his toy box 😩 I ran in there obviously picked him up comforted him and he had a cut to the cheek and it was starting to bruise I iced it and gave him lots of cuddles etc and he was fine. Today he’s woken up and not only has the bruising got worse, he’s now got a black eye and it’s swollen . I feel so bad, this id a routine I do every night , the front room is literally feet away so it’s not like I can’t see them because I can (my house is tiny so it’s like 4/5 steps away to my front room) I’m now worrying incase I need to take him anywhere there gonna wonder why I didn’t take him last night and in case they get social services involved 😭 I love all my children and id never let any harm come to them intentionally it was just an accident but it honestly looks worse then it is . Has anyone had any experience with this? I’ll post a picture when it happened and then of now. Thank you so much in advance.

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Jellycatspyjamas · 29/01/2025 07:18

@Strawber if you’re a social worker why would you be paranoid? You presumably know social work processes and know how they’d follow up a hospital visit or nursery concern involving routine bruising to small children. It’s not anything to worry about unless there are wider concerns or no reasonable explanation for how the injury happened. Social workers aren’t waiting in the wings to make parents lives difficult and steal their kids.

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