Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I actually am always aware of stuff like this and always tell waiters to put the kids plates where no one can reach them but me. I amazes me that a waiter would even think to put a very hot plate in front of a young child (oldest is 4.5).
The waiter probably put it in the first open spot he saw. You are blaming him when you didn't supervise.
I am always amazed at how many posters there are here that are just plain jackasses. Sometimes I wonder if posters who make such comments even have kids to begin with. Things can happen in just a matter of seconds. While you're turning around to pick up your dropped napkin or calm your other child down or to sneeze. It's not like this lady went to go to the bathroom and left her child unattended.
Anonymous wrote:I actually am always aware of stuff like this and always tell waiters to put the kids plates where no one can reach them but me. I amazes me that a waiter would even think to put a very hot plate in front of a young child (oldest is 4.5).
Anonymous wrote:Op here. Interesting pp. I don’t know for sure...I think (in the timeline I remember) she’d already started blistering before the Neosporin, but worth keeping in mind.
Anonymous wrote:Sorry that happened to your kid. Bizarre PSA - huge parenting fail by not supervising your kid.
=Anonymous wrote:Glad to hear your DD is fine. It must have been pretty scary. Don’t be too hard on yourself it could happen to anyone.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I’ll tack on an additional psa. See a dermatologist ASAP for a burn on the face. ER docs are not the most knowledgeable about potential for scarring.
Op here. Thanks for this idea.
I thought ER was overkill and waste of money (actually once my baby was bouncing in her chair and happily eating dinner I wasn’t even going to call ped) but once it started blistering I said to the woman at the next table (the one who’d given me the pediatric neosporin) “Mom to Mom do you think I should call her doctor?” She looked and saw it was blistering and said something like “yes! That looks serious!” So I packed up the food and my kids and walked home (to get car and because DH wasn’t picking up the phone) and called my ped on the walk home. The advice nurse said ER. I asked about urgent care and she said something like “for burns, especially on the face, I strongly urge you to go to the ER. Which one will you be using so I can note it in her chart?” So, by the time we walked home I’d been told I should really go to the ER.
The irony is the baby has a cold and has had a hard time sleeping but last night she slept through the night without complaint.
Anonymous wrote:I’ll tack on an additional psa. See a dermatologist ASAP for a burn on the face. ER docs are not the most knowledgeable about potential for scarring.