Have your kids needed stitches?

Thank goodness I never had to hold anyone down for stitches it is bad enough having to hold them down when they are little for their shots. I had to do that for my little sister when she was 1 and I swore never to do it again..I think I bawled more then her..she just kept hollering sissy don't let them hurt me..but then she stayed mad at me all day after cause I let them give her a boo-boo..I couldn't make it through the stitches if that had to happen I would be hollering myself. My niece recently was in a bike accident and hurt her head, she is 4 and they told my brother that she needed stitches. But in the end they ended up using some kind of surgical glue on it. That is a relief..

When the kids were little my son was such a klutz that he needed stitches several time....my daughters though never did....if you could break it....he did....if you could cut it....he did.......the last big thing he did was fall off a four wheeler and broke both his wrists at the same time.....it was a nightmare.....now he is an adult and married....and since then....he's gotten much better....his daugher however is just like her dad!

I cant even name all the times a child in our house has needed stitches. With 8 kids it seems at least once a year someone needed them! So far this year thou we haven't had anything happen bad enough to need them. Our oldest now 25 needed them 2 times in the head. Once she was at a ball game and the child batting threw the bat and yep she got it right in the forehead. The other 2 that I remember needing them more then once is our now 17 year old and she is what others would call a klutz. I think she has had more then any of our other children except for maybe our 14 year old. Our 17 year old has also had a broken collar bone (fall of the swingset) and a broken wrist (crashing a bike). She has also broke a toilet bowl playing around in the bathroom and had to have stitches in her leg. *Shakes head* yes she has put us through alot but seems to finally be growing out of it! Now to hope that our 2 year old isnt as bad! lol

So far none of our kids has needed stitches. (knock on wood) The worst we've had so far is a minor concussion in our oldest. At least that is what I'm figuring. She fell in gym and hit her head on the floor. She was lethargic and threw up when I picked her up at school and took her to the emergency room. But we sat there waiting for them to give her a ct scan for 2 hrs. I had to keep trying to entertain her and keep her awake because she was just laying there and falling asleep. By the time they took her to scan her, she was starting to perk up and act like herself again. I read that concussions can last from a few hrs to a few days depending how bad it is. So I think she was already improved by the time they finally scanned her. My middle one is a dare devil so I look for her to be my first stitches or broken bone. I couldn't imagine hearing my kid scream in pain like that. I would be in tears for sure.

My son fell in the tub and got a cut above his eye and I thought he would need stitches, but as it turned out, he didn't.

Once when my son was young some girls were chaseing after him. He fell and hit his head on a corner of concrete that was sticking up out of the ground. He needed stiches.

Neither one of my kids have had to have any stitches yet. My older son who is 9 now...had a broken leg last year. No stitches just a cast. My younger one who is 2 years and 10 months is the naughtier of the two and I'm all prepared for lots of stitches on him in the future. I can see that he's already on his way there. My older son is very brave about injections and stuff since he was a baby. And I'm sure I wouldn't have a problem if he ever needed a stitch. My heart does know that he is in pain and it breaks my heart....but I don't show it just as he doesn't show his pain.

I don't have kids, but as a child I did have stiches. Now, they were not a result of an accident, but a result of some surgery that I needed to have on my legs, to correct a problem I had walking. The surgery helped somewhat, but did not really correct the problem. I have two scars on the backs of my ankles (one on each leg).

My oldest daughter had stitches in her foot when she cartwheeled into a piece of broken glass. Then she had them in her forehead from a car accident. They called in a plastic surgeon and made me leave the room because they had to cut some skin away because it was jagged. They were afraid I'd faint if I saw them cutting on her head. I have to say not all cuts had stitches. At five she got her big toe slammed with a sliding door, causing a compound fracture. It was right on the nail bed so it couldn't be stitched. I had to smear this silver cream on it and keep it wrapped, with the toe slightly up. My son fell of the porch and cut open his head and had to have stitches. Which is surprising as he was the type who jumped off of everything! He came away pretty unharmed except for the time someone tried to stop him from jumping and he ended up with a broken arm. My middle child has never had stitches and she's 21 years old!

Two of my boys have needed stitches over the years, my eldest when he was a littlen and then my second boy. He has been the worst, he is 9 and over the years he has split his chin open, and his head twice! But they have never used stitches on his wounds, they use a kind of glue its ever so weird they just glue the cut together!

Living on a farm brought more than my fair share of seeing my children get cuts that had to be stitched up. The worse was when a worker left a machete carelessly during a lunch break and my 6 year old picked it up and swung it and cut his big toe vertically. The hospital was 20 miles away and my husband was not around. I got him to hospital - small one - and only one doctor and nurse were on duty at emergency. Stefan was put on the chair and the wound cleansed before sitting and when I got a good look at it then I fainted. when I came to the doctor and nurse were attending me and my son was still sitting in the chair quite amazed that his mother had fainted. He did not make a sound. That Keye person looks a piece of work to me. He seems to have an acohol problem as well as a big ego and what he did was horrible. So rude. I did not see what Beyonce did to save the day.

I think it is a rare parent that doesn't end up in the emergency room with a child in need of stitches or the more modern day glue. I have been there for both. My oldest hasn't needed any but then again she broke her nose which wound up needing surgery. The middle girl had a heart stopper when she was 18 months and fell. Well she had her finger in her mouth and bit off the tip of it down to the nail bed up against the bone. Now you would have thought that this would need some stitches but we had a great doctor who told us that kids under 5 are like salamanders and if we just kept it clean it would grow back and it did! It does look a little funny just slightly rounder then the rest a little like E.T. but it's there. The little one though has had stitches and glue several times. The first time was while she was still in the N.I.C.U. (born early) and she some how pulled her I.V. not only out but ripped a 3 inch section of her arm in the process. Since then there has been a fore head into the fire place, a crash into her sister (both riding bikes at the time) and my favorite of all time when she some how whipped the fishing lure across both her and her Pop Pops faces and they both needed stitches. (this was an ocean lure and huge). This was only a month ago and she thinks it is just the coolest thing to have a matching scar with her Pop Pop, he wasn't as thrilled. That will be a story told for a long time though. I cannot talk though as my sister and I had done the same thing to my folks. I being in karate and my sister being a fire fighter we have had more then our share of stitches since we where kids.

It's really painful for the parents as well. Both my children have had stitches.My son who was born with a defect - Psuedoarthrosis of the left tibia (the bone from the knee to the ankle), wherein part of the bone does not have marrow and makes that part of the bone brittle. The doctors did not do anything when he was a toddler, 'cos nothing could be done for it. It is a very rare defect. When he was around 6 yrs old, while in school, he had a fall a fractured that bone. For about 3 months he was in a cast, but the fracture never healed. We finally took him to a specialist who explained about this defect and said there are a few methods that are followed round the world, but the success rate is very less. He had warned us that if nothing works out, amputation is the final option. The operation involved removing 7 cms of the defective bone and growing new bone from just below the knee using a method called "Iliazarov Rings", wherein steel wires are pierced through the flesh and the bones and there are three to four rings from just below the knee to the ankle which are held together by long bolts and nuts. These nuts had to be turned 1mm daily so that new bone grew. This went on for about 70 to 75 days and I was the one who did this for him at home. The wires used to pull the bone downwards and the wires actually cut through the flesh. I did the cleaning of his wounds daily and he used to scream in pain. Even though new bone grew, there was no union of the upper and lower portion of the bone (the part that was removed). The doctors tried transplanting some bone from the hip, but did not work. They then removed part of the fibula (the part of the bone behind the tibia) and tried transplanting, which too did not work. He wore a prosthesis for some years and finally at the age of 13, he had to be amputated from below the knee. All this while I dont know how many times he has had stitches. Ofcourse, it was all done under anasthesia and so he wouldnt have known the pain then. Now he is better off with an artificial leg. My daughter met with a small accident when a motorbike went over her left foot and needed stitches and plastic surgery. But I think both of them went through all this bravely.

Well, for me it's been one of those years...you know the ones when everyone in your family decides to have some major catastrophe happen that will land them in the ER? Yeah, like that. My wife was pregnant at the beginning of the year, and we KNEW her pregnancy and delivery was going to make us meet our insurance deductible easily, and we were ok with that. Then my son decided to headbutt the fireplace. You know when they are running...kind of trip on their own feet, and then in mid-air, change course for the fireplace? Yup, split his eyebrow open...had to have 5 stitches at 2 years old. poor little guy. Not two weeks later, my 4 year old daughter was standing on a kids' chair to reach the top of the entertainment center, when the chair went out from under her. The back of her head caught the corner of one of the shelves, and...yup...split open the back of her head. She had to have 3 stitches (and a haircut...lol) and THEN we had the baby, and I know you can understand how that goes. Since the arrival of number three, nothing major has happened. We have also hit our out of pocket maximum this year, which is paying double your deductible within a year, so all the rest of our expenses are covered at 100%!!! wahoo! wait, should I be happy I spent that much on insurance? crappers... Dive Deep!

That is a lot of stitches for a child and an individual alone. My son is two. THe other day i thought he was going to need stitches because he went and got ahold of my moms razor in the other bathroom. LUckily it wasn't so bad after i cleaned it. I have had stitches twice. Once from a dog biting my face and second time was my stupidity. LOL.

I have not married yet but i think its depend upon the cut's severity... If the cut is deep and wide then really, it need stitching.

Wow, your child had many stitches. He certainly would have many stories to tell his grandchildren. My daughter had to have her toe stitched up when she was 5 I think. She got cut at the exercise machine and it didn't stop bleeding. I was so frightened. Even after I applied pressure on the cut, the bleeding didn't stop so I brought her to the doctor and she got 3 stitches. Not too bad. A few weeks later, we went back to the doctor to get the stitches out but it seemed that she was so active the stitches came out on its own.