5 People

Five people.

That's how many adults it took to restrain Teddy while the poor nurse practitioner put 5 stitches in his chin. I think that was everyone working on urgent care on Christmas morning.

Nice chin gash on top of his prior chin scars.

And then later that week, he fell while playing near the treadmill. AJ, Dave and I all arrived at the same time to find him in a pool of blood. At first we thought he perhaps had cracked his chin early, but the stiches held. Instead, he had built nearly through his tongue.

In case you don't know, tongues bleed a lot. (All head wounds do.) But tongues heal remarkably well. We know this from prior experience since Teddy jammed a plastic hanger nearly all the way through his tongue a few years ago. We took him to urgent care for that, who looked at it and promptly sent him to the ER. ER looked at it and said, "Eh, it'll heal." 

Since this wasn't nearly as bad as the coat hanger incident, I wasn't too concerned. I still did call the nurse line to discuss the situation. I said that if they wanted a peek at it, they'd be able to see it when we came back to get his stitches out. *Insert facepalm emoji here.*

Moral of the story? I'm not sure. Heads bleed. It takes a lot of people to restrain Teddy. We're stellar parents.