Posted on 04/11/2006 1:30:26 PM PDT by gopwinsin04
My kids fell all the time, off the beds, shopping carts,high chairs, kitchen chairs, bathtubs, swings and on and on. It happens.
It sounds like they did the right thing after the baby fell. I used a high chair about 2 days before I decided it was an "accident" waiting to happen.
I've been in Restaurants, probably fifteen different times over the years and witnessed children falling out of high chairs (like the one's that McDonald's uses).
In fact, just about two weeks ago, at a Country Club in San Antonio, I saw a toddler take a "crash and burn" from that same type of high chair. Since small children are top heavy, they tend to go head first when they fall.
poor little kid.
There is an Irish ballad about a worker, Tim Finigan, who fell from a ladder and broke hs scull.
Could there be permanent brain damage?
But did any of them ever have a fractured skull?
possibly...this is how disabilities can happen.
hope for the best
Having been in emergency rooms with small children, a lot of times the advice is to "just watch them. If they seem overly sleepy, or start throwing up, then bring them back."
For some reason, it always seemed at my house, these freak accidents happened at Christmas, or some other holiday or get together.
"This girl is not fit to be a mother. "
She's not really fit to sing either.
Isn't the father like barely 20?
My sister in laws kid has taken several falls from climbing on the kitchen table/chairs. The last time, he went unconscious and was out for several minutes. Now he is "slower" than he otherwise would be....
Some parents just don't watch their kids close enough and although accidents happen, nothing replaces supervision and being attentive, so "bad" falls don't happen.
BTW, nothing against you by my post.
She's not unusually young to have a child.
My daughter was just plain ole clumsy and my son was hyper- climbed the walls if there was nothing else available. I had to get over going to the Dr. after each spill, quick. :)
I'm not going to comdemn her for this, for all we know she has a very active kid in payback for her wild ways. lolololo
good question cause if you put your child in a highchair the way they are suppose to be in the highchair than youwould be fastened in with the table part put on correctly and a parent would be supervising and not leaving your child unattended.
I was thinking the car incident was a one time stupidity thing, but now I'm starting to think Brit and Kev may not be the best of parents!
Yes, kids can be clumsy can't they? Why can't children learn (when they do it over and over again) that you have to watch where you're going or you will run into walls and/or trip over things?
Anyway, I think Halls said it best in her last post. After the car incident and now this with the high chair, it has to make ya wonder just how attentive Kevin and Brittany are with their little one. Not condemning her, but it sure raises questions...
It could be that since they are new parents, they did not pick up on symptoms. It would not be the first time a too-busy set of parents overlooked the health problem of a kid until it became serious.
He is 7 months old, he could have very well been in the high chair properly and kicked off or leaned over and toppled the whole thing.
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