Please help me repair my wooden coffee table

[morewaterplease]

Hoping there might be some experts here!

DD managed to pour water all over my lovely wooden coffee table and I didn't realise until it was too late. Now part of the table is lumpy/swollen where the wood has absorbed the water 😭

It feels like the wood has sort of split. How can I repair this? All our living room furniture is a matching set and we saved for a long time so I'm really gutted about this and just hoping it can be saved.

Please help!

Can you put some photos up? Is it veneered wood?

It's not letting me upload pics. I uploaded pics on another thread in the last 24 hours so I'll need to wait now to do it again. Im not an expert but to me it looks like varnished wood. It's glossy. The bit where the damage is no longer looks or feels glossy.

I did upload a pic of the damage last night on a thread in chat... no idea how to link it though 👎🏻

I've found your other thread with the photo. You need to leave it and let it dry out naturally. Resist the temptation to try anything else on it as you could cause permanent damage whilst the grain is raised. Give it a good couple of weeks. If there is a cloudy mark, use a piece of folded
cotton fabric (I used a pillowcase) and an iron not on a steam setting, with no water and only on a very low heat. You need to be able to hold your hand on the soleplate for about thirty seconds before you need to move it. Put the iron on the fabric over the mark and leave it. This method works - I got water marks out of a varnished Edwardian table using it.

Thanks very much wow.

I'll not touch it for the next 2 weeks... although I did try ironing it last night, so hopefully that's not done any lasting damage.

I'll update in 2 weeks with how it's looking. Really hoping for a miracle 🙏🏼