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Last year, we moved into a house which has all of the bedrooms upstairs. We moved from a ground floor apt which is where we lived since my son was a few months old and before my daughter was born. Consequently, my kids never had much experience with stairs. Shortly after moving in, my daughter is starting to walk downstairs and trips. She lands on her side and, only being 2 1/2, was able to roll down the stairs sideways. On normal stairs, she would have been fine. Unfortunately, at the landing where she is headed, there is an approximately one foot square post cap which is set very low (not my design). As she gets to the bottom, her head smacks the corner of the cap causing her head to snap back. As my wife and I start to examine her, we see blood trickling off the top of her head and down her face. We took her to the hospital and she was fine. The blood was coming from a laceration that wasn't as bad once the blood was cleaned up. She checked out fine for everything else but we didn't think she would based on the way her head snapped back when she hit the post.
My kids are now 5 and 3 with one more on the way. I've been to the ER twice (once for each kid) and a visit to a doctors office walk in clinic. I can't wait to see what the 3rd kid brings.
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