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Jun 11, 2011

A Public Service Announcement

I just wanted to throw out a little PSA for all my mommy friends that are reading this.  Earlier this week, a little girl just shy of 2 years old from our playgroup pulled their 60in flat screen tv over on top of her.  After being take by helicopter to a nearby Children's Hospital, it was determined that she had a skull fracture and a broken nose.  She's recently been moved out of intensive care and is talking and alert.  Her mom got to hold her about 48 hours after the event took place - can you imagine going that long without being able to hold your baby???  When I read that, I started crying.  I can't imagine.  She will likely wear a neck brace for 8 weeks and is still in the hospital for monitoring, but is luckily going to be ok.  But, it's a lesson for us all to anchor our furniture and televisions.  Gavin pulled the dresser over on himself a few months back, and I know we were so lucky that he escaped with just a few scrapes.  We anchored that dresser after that happened, but nothing else.  So, I just ordered these straps from Amazon for our tv - Straps - and think everyone should do something similar.  Keep your little ones safe, and keep Bea in your thoughts, too.  :)

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