Today the girl got her hand trapped between the bathroom door and the doorframe. I'm not sure how she did it, as it I was looking away the exact moment it happened. But she managed to find the one spot where she could get her fingers through, but opening the door more would crush them more and closing it would also crush them more.
She calls me out of my distraction by crying Help!
. She's got four of the fingers of her left hand stuck past the first knuckle. Her pinky is small enough to be free to move, but the other three won't go past the knuckle. I'm pretty sure they'd started to swell a little. A bit of wiggling the door just makes her scream louder. I call for L to help and we just take turns, one of us holding the girl and the other trying the door, trying to push the fingers back through, or covering them with oil, soap, water or whatever else which'll make them more slippery (I'm pretty sure the oil and soap cancelled each other out).
Nothing works, and the doors won't unscrew from the wall without opening fully. L goes to see if the neighbours have a crowbar while I consider calling 999. The downstairs neighbours add some more consolation and distraction for the girl. L, while one of the neighbour's is fetching tools, gets some tin snips. I think there's nothing those will cut through,
but she just sticks them in the space between the door and frame and twists, just enough to bend the wood and free the girl's hand. Just in time for the neighbour's toolbox to arrive.
She comes out, right into my arms and I hold her till L gives her a consoling breast feed. I feel her hand in case anything is broken, but she does not seem to feel any pain. L asks her to make zero and five, that is making a fist and extending her fingers. Which she does without complaint. So it seems she came out unscathed.
For the next hour she would repeat Hand stuck. Door.
quite a bit. And any time she got her hand near a doorframe, L and I would lunge at her and grab her away.
Another scary childhood milestone. This one without permanent damage, though I do hope it means she won't do it again.
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