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Posted: 15 August 2007 at 9:01pm | IP Logged

Joe's done it again. Just about to come up to get ready for bed and I hear a resounding THUMP, the type of thump that you know is someone's head colliding with something hard. He starts crying, I go legging it into the lounge, and he has a massive (really, it's massive sticky-out, not massive spread-out) blue lump on his forehead. It must extend from his head by about a centimetre.

Why do they always do this at bedtime? You hear all the first aid thing about observing them being improtant and not letting them go to sleep, but what if they've stayed up so are overtired anyway, and how can you observe them and check their vision if they're asleep? Is he tired because it's late, or is he tired because he hit his head? I don't know!

I've just checked him and he's snoring away, and is obviously sleeping very heavily as I pulled his eyelids up to make sure his eyes looked OK and he didn't even flinch when I shone the torch at him. (His eyes do look OK.) He didn't pass out or throw up, but this lump is really big. IT's not as big as the one that Noah did that led to me calling 999. That was like someone had put an egg under his skin, truly, but this one is bad enough. I hate being a parent sometimes. How am I supposed to sleep tonight now? What do you look for to know they're OK if they're sleeping?

Posted: 15 August 2007 at 10:00pm | IP Logged

I had this worry recently as well. CJ was over tired and I had just read her a story in our bed (as Seren was in her cot there as well). Went to put the book down and CJ decided to bounce on the bed... I told her to stop and as I took a step towards her she had a great big grin on her face and bounced again fell forwards and smacked her head on the wooden headboard. She cried for a bit then went back to usual talking so I decided to put her to bed.

Like you said you end up checking them most of the night because you worry. Like Mumsam said that's all I did was to gently move CJ to make sure she stirred slightly and then left her until the next time I checked.

I hope your LO is OK although he sounds like he is fine... I don't know how true this is but someone said to me at one point that if they get a lump then that a good sign... like I said don't quote me on it because I've never heard it before, can anyone clarify that one?