My baby broke

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Natasha (11) dropped Alyssa on Tuesday evening. 

I had just told her to hold her properly as she was doing something that looked kind of unsave so she came over by me and sat her ontop of the dresser, I thought she was holding her but she just had her arms around her with a gap at the front so Alyssa slipped down in between the dresser and Natasha. I couldn't beleive it I was standing right there beside her and didn't even see it happen. Anyway I picked Alyssa up. Screamed at Natasha (mad psyco mummy stuff!!!) sent her to her room and tried to settle Alyssa, I knew something was wrong she doesn't usually cry much even if she gets hurt. And having two big sisters she gets her fair share of knocks. So I stripped off her trousers and her left leg was a bit red and her foot was a bit splotchy. Then when I held her up she held up her little leg like a lame puppy.  

 So off me raced to A&E.  As usual by the time we arrived she seemed OK but the Dr said we will check her anyway as babies often stop crying in their car seats as they don't move much. So we had an xray and sure enough her left tibia is fractured down by her ankle. My poor baby, now she will be in a cast for four weeks.

Then when I got home "much calmer now" I find out my Mother has been torturing Natasha making her clean the house, telling her how stupid she is, talking on the phone loudly to other people saying she must be jealous etc etc. I couldn't beleive it she makes me so angry sometimes, this is typical of my mother 

There is no way Natasha did it on purpose she's just not that type of kid, she may be a bit thoughtless and ditzy sometimes but it was an accident and she felt sooooo bad. Poor kid I said sorry for going off at her myself and then she told me what her Nana had done grrrrrrr. So I had a go at Mum and made her say sorry to Tasha. Gee what a night.

So now two days later Alyssa is happy as. I'm glad she couldn't crawl before because this would be very frustrating for her but she is happy to sit and play and can still roll over.... one way! And poor old Tasha is feeling so terrible she hates that everybody knows she broke the baby. Oh dear I try not to give her a hard time , I don't want her to spend all her time feeling guilty but I must say I have been watching her when she holds Alyssa.

Now my DH doesn't want to go out of the house with Alyssa, as he thinks people are looking at him thinking "look at that Maori guy with the baby with the broken leg". I must say I have wondered myself how a six month old can possibly break a leg...well now I know !!!. 