My 2.3 yo was stood at his cot bars this evening and sort of face butted them, he does this on occasion when overtired and angry at something. (I’m right there with him and he’s not distressed it’s just when he can’t do something he wants to do like tonight he wanted to have another glass of milk).
This evening he did it, literally just once and he looked up and cried out, we’re in pitch black so I turned the light on and there was blood pouring out everywhere from both nostrils, it was all over both of us and the bed within seconds. The issue is I don’t know whether he hit his head or his nose as it was so dark.
He never cried as such, just moaned, the bleeding stopped in under 5 minutes, I took him downstairs for an hr and he ate, drank milk (so he got it in the end!) and seemed absolutely fine, albeit a bit tired as it was late by then. No marks anywhere on face, he says nothing hurts, when I ask him where he hit he changes his mind every time.
I’m 60% sure he must’ve hit his nose hence the bleed, I didn’t hear a bang like I would’ve if he but his head, but I’m concerned I can’t completely rule out that he hit his head. Would there be other concerning signs if it was a head butt hard enough to cause a bad nose bleed?
I rang 111 and waiting from a call from out of hours gp however just got toddler to sleep and I have no car tonight so I have no idea what I’m going to do if we have to go see someone.