A Mom’s chronicles – first scar-potential scratch

No matter how one looks after a child, when they are at an early age of discovery, a parent cannot avoid bumps and bruises. I can’t count the times that Aidan fell down and at the beginning I would sort of freak out. But I remarked that he is more disturbed by my cry of distress than the pain of falling of down. So I invented this silent cry! The person in front of me would know this coz my eyes would just bulge bigger than usual (yup that’s possible) and stifle my cry… Then I learned to recognize the cry of pain and the cry of real pain… then just recently, the cry of someone just asking attention… its amazing… I really learn something almost everyday…

But my point right now is this cry of real pain… It’s a shriek rather than a cry and when I heard this last Monday, I knew something was wrong and sure enough he had a gash on the forehead and there was BLOOD! I was almost in panic and was pressuring my husband, who was looking after him, what happened. I could see he felt really guilty but as he explained to me later, Aidan was just doing his normal stint of running around and then falling but this time he hit his head on a floor edge. Of course we ran to the hospital and I was afraid he would get a stitch. Apparently they don’t do this anymore and they just have some sort of adhesive to pull the skin together and heal then there would just be a small scar and not an ugly one such as that of a stitched-one. Then when we were getting in the car, Aidan uttered: “Takit!” in his cute baby voice and we just bursted out laughing, the tension broke and we started teasing him… “Takit ba baby?” Anyway, he did not have any other problems and he’s back to his malikot-self so all’s well that ends well… until the next incident!