Chompers

Our pobrecito tripped and fell over a carpet last night, and banged his mouth into the floor.  Once the bleeding stopped we saw that a couple of his top teeth were misaligned, so we hopped on over to the pediatric ER.  We were so lucky that it was completely empty!  About 30 minutes later we were on our way home, with instructions to see a pediatric dentist today.  Which we just did.  

Nicholas was a champ and had a ball at the office.  Xrays showed that a couple of the teeth were knocked up and over a little.  Only time will tell what will become of this injury.  Either the teeth will fall back into place and remain viable, or one or both may die (in which case they would be pulled).  In the meantime, Nicholas is to have soft foods for at least a week and we're going cold turkey with the nighttime bottle (we had been planning on getting him off of it anyway....).  

It was really so upsetting for us to see this happen to Nicholas last night.  It's a terrible, terrible feeling to feel so helpless and to not be able to make it better when that is all your child expects.  We certainly don't want to limit this little adventure-seeker ever, but at the same time, all I want to do is keep him cuddled in my arms for eternity!

Luckily, for Nicholas, life goes on.....