Toddler experienced very frightening near death experience and I too am shocked!

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in laws cam to visit/baby sit

i have just done some diy and put new bookscases up

one ws left emtpy as this weekend was going to be fixed to wall before putting items in it

father in law put a toy out of reach from lo (why?? i sitll dont know!!!) on high shelf of this bookcase and toddler out of blue (an has never done this before) screams as bookcase comes hurtling down..he must have tried to climb bookcase...bookcase falls landing on opposite wall but all shelves came off and hit him though.

he is 23 months old and very impressionable

father and mother in law never let me see him today properly and keep saying he is well

i know he is def traumatised and was def wanting me rather than them

veyr heavy case that apperently did not touch him as landed on opposite wall of narrow room...but very vague details given to me...wall opposite completely damaged by bookcase pounding into it and needs redecorating..that could have been his skull!

i could see no bruising so i hope it is true but maybe incognito bump

sleeping now

lo very shaken and i am now

bookcase would have killed little one for sure if hit him as very heavy bookcase and i still cant beleive he was not hit but lied down in triangle between shelf and wall

how do i make him ok again...was a special bookcase all for him and now.....and all i keep hearing is thud then scream from upstairs...

I pulled a bookcase over on me when I was 2, it was full of books and I wasn't traumatised in any way! Seriously, you are more upset than him because you know it could have been a lot more serious and he was lucky to get away with apparently minor injuries. I agree that your pils are probably trying to calm the situation down but you just need to find out if the shelves hit him on the trunk or head, even if just to put your mind at rest.

Remember in future to secure the bookcases as soon as you put them up!

Hope he's ok

Hope your ds is ok.

I would encourage you to stand up to your in-laws if you can.

Just want to echo what everyone else has said about it almost being worse for you than for him (assuming he's totally ok physically). My dd fell off a full-size trampoline a while back - she was climbing down through open zip and fell back onto a corner of a step and split head open. I took her to docs and she got some glue and was completely fine within an hour of falling, but I felt in a panic long after she seemed to have completely forgotten about it! And she wanted to go on the trampoline again the next day!