One evening my mother made dinner after a hard day’s work. She put a plate of eggs, salad and burnt toast in front of my father …
I immediately noticed, the burnt toast …. And, I was waiting to see if he was going to complain about it, but my father started to eat them, smiling and asked me how I spent my day at school …
My mom apologized to my dad for the burnt toast. I will never forget his response to her: “Honey, I love burnt toast!”
Later when I went to bed and my dad came over to kiss me goodnight, I asked him if he really liked the burnt toast?
He hugged me and said, “Your mother has had a difficult day and she is really tired. She went out of her way to prepare this meal for us, why blame her and hurt her. Burnt toast never hurt anyone; but words can be very painful! “
We have to know how to appreciate what others do for us, even if it’s not perfect, because it’s the intention to do well that counts, and no one is perfect …
Although I have contemplated on posting this I believe it is time that our story is shared…
Roughly 24 hours after birth our healthy baby boy was taken to the nursery, by the nurse, to have his PKU test done. A heel warmer is used during a PKU test to increase capillary circulation to an infants heel which is where the labs are drawn from for the test. For whatever reason the nurse decided to put hot water in a diaper and wrap it around Dash’s foot and leg with the heel warmer. The water was so hot that it resulted in our newborn baby having 2nd and 3rd degree burns.
Baby Badly Burnt By Nurse
After consults with NICU, plastics, wound care, and a burn center our perfectly healthy baby was admitted to the NICU for 6 days. He had an IV, was on morphine, Tylenol, and ibuprofen, and had to have an NG tube. After finally being discharged from the NICU we’ve had multiple follow up appointments with a plastic surgeon and at 13 days old our baby had to have a surgical debridement.
This whole situation should’ve never happened. It all took place because of an ignorant decision made by one nurse. This first time mother and father experience was taken from me and Andrew because of one nurse’s bad decision. The opportunity to breast feed my baby was taken from me because of one nurse’s bad decision. I watched my baby desat and turn blue during a feeding because he was so incoherent from the morphine he needed for pain because of one nurse’s bad decision.
If you work in healthcare I encourage you to remember that you are taking care of someone’s loved one. Although to you it may be just another day at work and another patient, to someone else that is their world, and they are trusting you to provide the utmost care.
We are very thankful that Dash is almost completely healed and, as of now, shouldn’t have any long term effects besides scarring and possibly losing his pinky toenail. Please keep us in your prayers as we continue on this journey.
When a mum returned home to her six-month-old baby, she wasn’t met by a smiling happy bundle of joy that she had left earlier. As she returned to her house after being away for a few hours, she discovered that 36-year-old babysitter Ismelda Ramos Mendoza had harmed her daughter.
The moment she got through the door, she knew something was not right. Upon looking at her baby, she discovered that the soles of her feet were covered in huge blisters.
When she asked the babysitter what had happened, the babysitter said she had no idea. The mother was not satisfied with the answer and suspected the babysitter did something to her child. She called the police to lodge a claim of child abuse.
She then took her daughter straight to the hospital after speaking to the police, where she discovered the real extent of her wounds. On both feet, she had severe burns, as if they had been cooked.
After 36-year-old Mendoza was arrested, it was discovered that she had become angry while she was cooking when the baby didn’t stop crying.
Mendoza then grabbed the baby and forced her feet into the frying pan as punishment, according to The Washington Post.
I recently purchased some adult water shoes from Lidl to take away on holiday and though I had got myself a real bargain, I had already bought my children Hot tuna water shoes from Sports direct the week before.
We arrived in Egypt for our much deserved holiday and as it expected it was hot, too hot to walk from our chairs to the pool without getting very sore burnt feet.
Thank god we had our water shoes, no problems with burnt feet, we could walk safely to the pool or so we thought.
After one hour of using Lidl water shoes the soles had melted, heating the shoes and insoles burning the bottom of my feet, I then spent the remainder of my holiday having to hobble along and had to resort to wearing trainers, not how I had planned to spend my holiday, the shoe originally had small rubber like balls all along the sole, these where quickly melted away and heated the shoe up, cooking my foot along with it.
Lidl Water Shoes Are Dangerous And Burn Feet
My children wore their Hot Tuna water shoes all week-long and their soles where completely intact, no burnt rubber, no sore burnt feet!!!
Hot Tuna shoes no damage or burn marks
Lesson learnt don’t go cheap when it concerns your feet, I will never buy these shoes again and hope you take extra caution if you plan on using them.
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Carly King A nanny from Northampton is desperate to raise awareness regarding sun creams!!
☀ It’s that time of year again!!! My lovely suncream post! ☀
Please can we all like and share to spread awareness!
After last years post I’ve had a few people ask me which cream is best to use so I feel it’s a good time to share this now as it’s hot!!!!
So last year I noticed how many children are tanning and burning whilst using suncream and I saw so many people say ‘I used factor 50+ and my child is pink/ red after being in the sun’
So I created the post below… 👇🏼
Earlier today one of my friends came to me saying she had a children’s suncream for her daughter that factor 50+ and she had got sunburn at nursery despite the nursery applying it correctly!
~~~When buying sun cream PLEASE make sure you check the UVA star guide! Ambre Solaire being one of the well-known brands deemed very high protection… 3*** and £7 a bottle, but Asda own brand at £3 is 5*****.~~~
It isn’t all to do with the factor, there is another rating that you need to consider when buying cream, and if that is low, ultraviolet light can get through and damage the skin.
***UVA (Ultra Violet A) protection is key to keeping out the harmful radiation. (The stars you see on the bottle)
SPF (sun protection factors) is the measurement of protection against UVB (Ultra Violet 😎 and is rated on a scale of two to 50+.***
The British Association of dermatologists said: “That’s why it’s important to choose a high SPF as well as a high UVA protection (e.g. a high number of stars).
“Sunscreens that offer both UVA and UVB protection are sometimes called ‘broad spectrum’.
“A sunscreen with an SPF of 30 and a UVA rating of 4 or 5 stars is generally considered as a good standard of sun protection in addition to shade and clothing.”
This statement came after the Manchester evening news published my post!
We buy into trusted “quality” brands but reality shows it’s not always in the name! I have been in childcare for 13 years now and I’m very cautious about suncream use and Children burning/ tanning even whilst using spf 50+. This SHOULD NOT be happening!!
My main point for this post is. People assume factor 50 “very high protection” is enough, when in reality these high protection creams should be higher in uva/uvb protection. 3* isn’t sufficient enough!
The British association of dermatologists say “Nowadays there is a vast range of different product types available, including lotions, mousses, sprays and gels. Because of this variation, it is not possible to give a set amount that you should apply that is the same for all products.”
**Please use the link below to BAD for the most accurate information to protect your children’s skin and your own**
PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN KEEP WELL HYDRATED AND HAVE REGULAR BREAKS FROM THE SUN AND HEAT ❤
Distraught mum’s horror as Toddler Badly Burnt Whilst At Nursery
Little Reuben’s face was scalded in the accident at Bridge End House Nursery, Fixby
Reuben’s mum has told of how she was left feeling “hysterical and distraught” after her toddlers face was scalded following an accident at a Fixby nursery.
Sarah Jane Walker, 29, of Deighton said she couldn’t believe what she was hearing when the manager at Bridge End House Nursery told paramedics what had happened to her 18-month-old son Reuben Adams.
Sarah said: “I was working in Huddersfield town centre when I got a call from the nursery manager at 3.30pm. I was told he had been burned. I put the phone down and went as fast as I could to Huddersfield Royal Infirmary where an ambulance had taken him.
“I got there and Reuben’s key worker and nursery manager were there. He was in an awful state. I got hold of Reuben and took him out of the nursery nurse’s arms and they left.
“I was in hysterics. I was crying. I didn’t want him to see me so upset. He was given morphine and transferred to Pinderfields General Hospital. My mum was there.
“He has had some more morphine to clean the wounds. He couldn’t sleep and I was with him all night.
We are hopin with time the scars will fade and that he grows up with no memory of this pain.
She said paramedics were told by nursery staff that her son had apparently opened the safety gate and went into the kitchen area and has somehow been injured by a bowl of boiling water used to warm a baby bottle.
“Reuben is my only baby and I’m mortified that this has happened in the care of a qualified Ofsted registered nursery that I researched before registering him.
“I had put my trust in this nursery so I could go to work to give Reuben everything possible.
“Reuben will not be returning to the nursery ever again.”
