I know I shouldn't..but I do :(

tina623

Feel like a bad momma. 

When I was making the girls breakfast, I heard Katie crying but not loudly, just a whine of sorts.  I finished pouring the milk and went to check on her.  She had her leg under the couch.  As I got closer she pulled it out then started crying.  I picked her up, told she was fine then sat her back with her toys.  When I looked back at her I noticed a large scratch (it bled a little) going up her lower calf.  I washed it with soap and water and put some neosporin on it.  It just looks like a jagged cut and I hate looking at it .  I hope it doesn't scar. 

TheSkimmy

a bad mom wouldn't have washed it or put neosporin on it! babies are gonna get scratched and bleed. It doesn't sound deep and probably won't scar.

DS was being watched by my friend and when I picked him up his cheeck had a bloody cut on it from their cat- DS grabbed her fur. You can still kinda see it but I think this summer when he gets a little sun on it (yes I'll put suncreen on him) that you won't be able to see it. But nothing I can do about it now and nothing you can do!!! Just keep it clean!

trr8203

I'm with Skimmy, if you were a bad mommy you wouldn't have cleaned it and put neosporin on it.  Sometimes you have to let them cry a little or you'd never get anything done.  She'll be fine.

pamela-matt

TheSkimmy:

a bad mom wouldn't have washed it or put neosporin on it! babies are gonna get scratched and bleed. It doesn't sound deep and probably won't scar.

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Agreed!!!!!!!!!! ?Their skin is resilient and it should be fine. ?Cut yourself some slack. ?I would have done the same thing.?

roaringrock

kids fall and go "boom!" all the time. you are not a bad momma. you did the right thing.