I hate to fix artificial nails, I feel uncomfortable with it but I prefer neatly keeping my own nails...I became used to it as a spinster after marriage I continue to me it looks beautiful and most women are known with keeping long nails even few men too, I never see the need to cut my nails considering the fact how much I love it. Since Is one of the ways in which women beautify themselves so i thought there is nothing wrong in keeping them. On different occasions while bathing my baby or dressing her I accidentally poke her with a nail she seem to react to it but I kept ignoring it after saying sorry to her, as a baby I couldn't understand what she was going through...we as adults could manage Minor pains so I thought is just a minor pain that will stop in no time moreover it has no serious effect on her. She couldn't speak so how am I supposed to understand that.
How i accidentally poked my baby's forehead with a nail that got her injured
One fateful day I mistakenly poke her with a nail while bathing her she cried this time my mom was close to us, mom asked when she heard her cried... what exactly is the problem? I told her how I mistakenly poke her with a nail...mom advice me is not good keeping nails as a nursing mom it can injure the baby, but I saw the nails as something that wouldn't cause any harm. Mom continue saying thesame thing over and over again so I decided to cut it a bit moreover is just an ordinary nails, is not a big deal I thought. forgetting the popular saying of what an elder sees while sitting down even if you climb the Iroko tree you won't see it like an elder do... I underestimated the fact that a minor nail could not cause any harm the way my mom always says.
the day I accidentally hit my feet on a stick I felt much pain because of the long nails in my toes but even at that I don't really understand why we women repeatedly do thesame thing over and over again...may be because of how beautiful it looks but sometimes I ask myself does it really worth it? Why so much stress for just nails hummm...after mom advice me on it I couldn't stop it completely I was skeptical about it.
So one day something happened that change my perspective completely about nails keeping. baby and I was on a bed my baby crawled to my back I wasn't aware she was there playing, suddenly I had a sharp bite of an insect at my back so I fastly hit that particular spot with the palm of my hand ... In the process of doing that I accidentally poke my baby with a nail so hard on her forehead baby screamed and cried so hard that was when I acknowledged she was at my back I carried her to my greatest surprised I saw a deep cut on her forehead i could literally see her inner white skin before the blood comes out i couldn't believe my eyes never in my weirdest dream could I have imagine a nail could give such a deep cut...my baby cried so loud she couldn't stop, my mom and brothers were surprised why she was crying so loud I felt bad and guilty I had to breastfeed her before she could stop crying while at it I opened my purse and took out a razor and cut all the nails.
The safeness of our children is our ultimate goal... nails shouldn't be a hindrance to that.
I'm grateful to God it wasn't in her eye.
With my experience I got to understand why my mom emphasize much on it, I now know better why is not safe to keep nails especially mothers.
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