I was picking up Ryan from our childminder when I got the phone call from my wife, Tina. “Can you get over to the nursery, Gabby has had a fall?” My wife sounded worried, but gave no details away.
I rushed over as soon as I could and went into the baby room to find a lot of worried looking faces, and one very sad looking Gabriela. “We didn’t want to worry your wife, but she fell over backwards and has lost a tooth,” explained one of the carers. She showed me a small bundle of tissue paper which I presumed contained a little baby tooth. I picked Gabby up and gave her a big cuddle.
They explained what had happened as best they could as they couldn’t explain how the tooth had fallen out. Gabby had been cruising around the side but suddenly found herself standing with nothing near her to steady herself. In effect, it was probably her very first steps. Next thing that happened was obvious. She fell over, but she went backwards and on a soft matt. So, how she knocked her tooth out we have no idea. She lost her lower left front tooth (she only had four) and she only cried when they had to get it out of her mouth to stop her swallowing it.
My wife arrived and we took her first to the doctor, and then to our dentist. They did all they could, checked her out and made sure she was okay. The odd thing is that she has no bruises from the fall, she fell backwards so didn’t knock her teeth, so how did the tooth come out?
We are a bit shocked, but at the end of the day, the tooth will be replaced in a few years anyway. It’s just a shame that it was her first tooth and we went through a lot of sleepless nights to get it.
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