"It's different for girls" :-(

[HoneyDragon]

Dd (4) smashed her chin on the bath on Thursday. By the time I got home dh had calmed her down and dressed it, as the bleeding had slowed down, I figured rather than risk it bleeding again by looking at, I'd take her into our local GP in the morning, rather than A&E 20 miles away at 9pm.

Checked in the morning, it was a lot wider than we'd realised it so took her in, and they steri stripped it together.

Had the dressing off today, and replaced. Nurses said it could've done with a stitch at the time, although as it was her chin the scar wouldn't be that visible.

I made the comment that we had similar with her brother and decided that a scar on his ear was probably better than the pain and distress having it stitched would cause, and that turned out ok.

That's when I got "well it's different for girls".

I KNOW it was a throw away comment. But I now feel like shit

Oh, sorry, I just saw this but eek! That sounds scary. The 'different for girls' would annoy me too.

FWIW, I have a delightful scar on my cheekbone, where my darling baby brother shoved me and I fell on something sharp. It took a little tiny chunk out, and now it looks as if I have a dimple there when I smile. My mum never stopped guilt-tripping herself that apparently, it should've been stitched.

Hope she's better soon.

I have a dimple scar. I was helping my dimwit brother unload the car when he was home for summer term, he thought the door way was a good place to leave acstack of videos. Until I tripped over them carrying a box full of his crap and impaled my face on the corner of the radiator.

I still like to guilt trip him on occasion

Ouch.

But yes, the guilt-tripping never gets old. Happy days.

Pity he has things to guilt-trip me for too, eh ...

We had a similar incident when ds was a toddler. He was running around wildly when he tripped on dd (I was changing her nappy on the floor) and went head first into the TV shelf. He gashed himself just by his eye, blood everywhere, much drama. When the bleeding stopped I thought it wasn't so bad and could be dressed in the morning at the GPs.

When dh took him in the morning they said he had to go to A&E anyway (no practice nurse that day) and then there was some tutting about how it should have been stitched and that there would be a (avoidable) scar.

I felt dreadful about it for a while, my beautiful boy scarred for life. Fast forward a decade or so and it's a tiny little dimple by his eye.

Also stitched don't necessarily avoid scarring - I broke my jaw a few years back and you can see that the skin is distorted where they stitched me back together. No big deal really though.

My friend has a scar on her top lip. She looks cool, it suits her.
feeling old that your immaced baby is 4!

I just want to know how it's possible to accidentally immac a baby?

I actually asked for wonky stitches on one of the cuts I got on my face from a teenage stupidity incident. Looks ace. For YEARS I had my kids believing I got it swordfighting with pirates. I'm going to go with velociraptors for the grandchildren.