Yesterday E went to visit a prospective daycare, which happens to be located 2 blocks away, is run by a nice Chinese lady, and they have an opening in September.\u00a0 To be honest, our chances of getting e into a daycare is pretty slim due to the high demand, but then this one came out of nowhere, and seems to fit our criteria almost perfectly… Hmmm, strange forces are at work here…<\/p>\n
As the meeting was 6, it threw off our schedule a bit.\u00a0 e’s\u00a0solid feeding was pretty tough, and we needed multiple wet paper towels to clean her, and the feeding area up.\u00a0 In between, we had to finish making our dinner and wolf it down quickly as we wanted to get a Superstore run in.<\/p>\n
I think our minds were preoccupied with a lot of things- looking for a house, leaving e at a daycare, E returning to work, calling daycare references,\u00a0etc.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0As we drove into the parking lot, we automatically went through our routine- I put on the ergo carrier without the shoulder straps, E gets baby and transfers her over… very similar to the Emporer Penguins and their egg transfer.\u00a0 E puts baby into the carrier facing me, and as I lean back to slide the shoulder straps on, the waist belt pops open and e drops to the pavement…<\/p>\n
It was one of those moments where things happen so fast you’re in disbelief.\u00a0 E wheels around and yells something, and all I notice after the pop is that I can’t feel e’s weight against me.\u00a0 E is the first to get to e, and by this time baby is screaming.\u00a0 Her nose is scraped up pretty good, and there’s a welt on her forehead.\u00a0 This is the worst feeling in the world…<\/p>\n
We quickly assess what’s happening.\u00a0 It’s a good thing she’s\u00a0crying loudly….\u00a0as it means she didn’t lose consciousness and likely no concussion.\u00a0 Limbs are ok, no blood coming from inside nose and a tiny bit from her lip.\u00a0 Nothing to indicate we need to call 911 or turn myself into the bad parent police.<\/p>\n
We rush her home and ran a warm bath.\u00a0 She calmed down in the car, so that’s another good sign.\u00a0 As I was taking her diaper shirt off, the poor thing was sniffling… and I remember it’s that stuffy feeling when you get bonked on the nose by a football.\u00a0 If her nose was broken, there would be\u00a0a lot more swelling, blood, and tears… so I was pretty sure it wasn’t broken.\u00a0 In her bath, she was acting normally, splashing around playing with her ducks, and we didn’t see any more bruises or scrapes.\u00a0 I held her for awhile until she was ready for sleep, then stayed in her room until she fell asleep.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The ergo carrier has a plastic\u00a0common buckle, like you see on most backpacks, that closes\u00a0at your\u00a0waist at your back.\u00a0 When I closed it, I must not have pushed\u00a0fully… so that the carrier stayed on my waist, but\u00a0would not hold any weight.\u00a0 Furthermore, the ergo has an extra safety feature- a piece of fabric that you slide the male\u00a0end of the buckle through, so if it accidently disengages, the fabric\u00a0would catch it.<\/p>\n
The problem is that\u00a0when I wear it, i have to\u00a0pull the strap\u00a0through the piece of\u00a0fabric, and\u00a0you\u00a0can bypass the safety feature when buckling up again.\u00a0 Plus the fact that the buckle is behind you, and\u00a0you can’t\u00a0visually see it\u00a0close.\u00a0 So\u00a0big safety lesson learned- slide the buckle through the safety catch, and listen\/feel the snap.\u00a0\u00a0 I shudder to think what might have happened if she landed differently.<\/p>\n
We both had a sleepness night thinking\u00a0of what happened, and the other lesson\u00a0I’ve learned is to put all distractions aside when handling baby.\u00a0 All that other stuff can be discussed after baby goes to sleep.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The good news is that e is back to her normal self today.\u00a0\u00a0She won’t get any dates this weekend, but I’m fine with that.\u00a0\u00a0\ud83d\ude42\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I don’t think E and I have been this scared before, and so when I gave her a hug today, it had extra meaning…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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