Unfortunately bumps and bruises do happen especially with toddlers in the 15-25 months area. I do the same by writing up an incident report of it is anything like a goose egg or anything that might look alarming.

When I was a daycare user rather than provider I would be concerned whenever my child was injured but now that i am on the other side of the equation I can see how easily it happens.

Every time I fill out a report with a heavy heart and ask myself what I could have done to prevent it. I feel so awful to tell the parents that anything happened because I feel like I let them down. I really have to tell myself it is normal.

I had an incident in September where I had an injury on the first day that a 3 year old was in my care. I took the gang to the park and I was concentrating more on the 18 month olds and making sure they don't get injured. Lo and behold it was the 3 year old who was on the climber and suddenly let out a scream. She banged her head on the climber pretty bad and it swelled up pretty good. I wasn't sure whether to call or not but decided against it because the girl seemed okay after I took her home and iced the area. I was really scared when the 5 pm pick up came and figured I would never see them again considering it was my 1st day with them but luckily the parents were understanding and accepted my profuse apologies. Talk about a bad first day and first impression