When I was about 16 weeks pregnant with Josie, Eddie head butted my stomach. He wasn't trying to hurt me, but we were rough housing and he came at me. I was in pain for 2 or 3 days after. A friend joked that Eddie was starting to beat up on his sibling early. Well, we had about a month of good behavior, but now the gloves are off. This morning, Eddie walloped his sister in the head with a board book from about 3 inches away--hard.
I knew it was coming, I knew it was only a matter of time before something like this happened. I'd been guarding against it and averted a couple near misses. I had been reading to Ed and then in the middle, needed to feed Josie. As I sat back down to read to him while I nursed, he had the book in both hands and like he was trying to kill a bug, slammed it flat against her head. Now the Doctor had told me that short of Eddie dropping her head first onto a tile floor, there was little he could do to hurt her. Does this qualify as bringing the tile floor to her?
She screamed and cried for about a minute, and Cookie and I scolded Eddie for at least another minute. I've got to figure out how to balance making sure he feels he can interact with her, with guarding against such a sneak attack. I know he was probably angry that she'd interferred in his time with me and I told him so, but yeesh!
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