Ana has a bruise on her stomach. A large one.

[conuly]

With a bump on it.

This is all my fault. She was not walking, and yelling, so I picked her up, you know, so there's no chance of her deciding to hit or kick me and kept walking. And she slipped and fell, and that must be how she got it, and I didn't know, and I should have known, and...

Why does it have a bump in the middle? She says it doesn't hurt.

Comments

[honeybunch2.livejournal.com]

I think I might be taking her to see a doctor...the bump is what would concern me...would there have been anything that she would have fallen on?? Do she remember falling?

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

So you were picking her up (around the waist, I'm guessing), she squirmed out of your arms and fell on the pavement? It's possible she got the bruise from your holding her too tight, or from the fall, but it's also possible she got it some other way - bonked into something earlier and never noticed, as toddlers do.

It's 'damned if you do, damned if you don't' when the kid is big enough to be hard to hold on to when kicking and thrashing. If you don't hold on tight enough, the kid may fall; if you hold on tight enough to prevent that, the kid may get a bruise. IMHO this is precisely the kind of moment for which the Good Swift Smack On The Bottom^TM was expressly designed, but I understand that as the nanny, you can't resort to that.

"To be perfectly honest, at the time I really felt she kinda deserved it."

Well, of course she did - that's called 'natural consequences': she brought a little lesson on herself, and it sounds like one she needs to learn, because she's getting to be a pretty big girl now. No blame to you for feeling a bit of "So there, see what you got for acting that way?" - that's natural too. But of course you don't want your darling niece to be really hurt. It's not your fault, and a bruise - even a large bruise - is not that big a deal.

It's not your fault that you didn't "know sooner", either, because how are you supposed to know if she doesn't tell you? It's quite possible that her stomache-ache was because she had to poo.

[joeymew.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if this is helpful or not, but I had a bruise from hell on my leg from walking full force into a very stationary chair, and it had a bump. It went away after a few days. I'm not sure how comparable it is to the bruise in question though.

[(Anonymous)]

I think I might be taking her to see a doctor...the bump is what would concern me...would there have been anything that she would have fallen on?? Do she remember falling?

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

So you were picking her up (around the waist, I'm guessing), she squirmed out of your arms and fell on the pavement? It's possible she got the bruise from your holding her too tight, or from the fall, but it's also possible she got it some other way - bonked into something earlier and never noticed, as toddlers do.

It's 'damned if you do, damned if you don't' when the kid is big enough to be hard to hold on to when kicking and thrashing. If you don't hold on tight enough, the kid may fall; if you hold on tight enough to prevent that, the kid may get a bruise. IMHO this is precisely the kind of moment for which the Good Swift Smack On The Bottom^TM was expressly designed, but I understand that as the nanny, you can't resort to that.

"To be perfectly honest, at the time I really felt she kinda deserved it."

Well, of course she did - that's called 'natural consequences': she brought a little lesson on herself, and it sounds like one she needs to learn, because she's getting to be a pretty big girl now. No blame to you for feeling a bit of "So there, see what you got for acting that way?" - that's natural too. But of course you don't want your darling niece to be really hurt. It's not your fault, and a bruise - even a large bruise - is not that big a deal.

It's not your fault that you didn't "know sooner", either, because how are you supposed to know if she doesn't tell you? It's quite possible that her stomache-ache was because she had to poo.

[joeymew.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if this is helpful or not, but I had a bruise from hell on my leg from walking full force into a very stationary chair, and it had a bump. It went away after a few days. I'm not sure how comparable it is to the bruise in question though.