With 3 kids including TWINS, the only 2 ER trips so far have been for my son's asthma (of course one was in Florida on our way to Disney World!)
I know the coffee table scenario well, though...One of my twin daughters took a nose dive off the couch "just because" and hit her forehead on the edge of a marble coffee table (ouch!!!). This sounds strange, but the small cut was sooo deep, it hardly bled. I thought she needed a butterfly bandage, but the pediatrician sent us to a plastic surgeon (I wasn't too keen on getting an inexperienced ER doc putting stitches in a toddler girl's forehead and her perhaps looking like Frankenstein later on!) It paid off, 11 years later, no scar....BTW, the table has still not resurfaced from the basement.... I hear you, Mike, on the "Lego up the nose" trick. The OTHER twin decided to pick apart one of their foam crib mattresses one day. In retrospect I should have run to their room IMMEDIATELY when I heard demonic laughter, but didn't head upstairs until there was deafening silence on the baby monitor. Foam was ALL over the place but I just cleaned it up and forgot about it. Months later, (yes, MONTHS) she had a strange odor emanating from her nose. A visit to her peditrician showed nothing...It got worse so I carted her off to an ENT doctor who within 2 seconds of being there, pulled a nice size piece of guess what? FOAM, from her nostril. He proceeded to call the pediatrician and rip him a new one right in front of me, too. He put the foam in alcohol and placed it in a small jar as a "parting gift." When I asked why, he said, "Oh, you'll want to remind her of what she did when she was a toddler" when she's an obnoxious teenager. Well, she's now 13, and I have pulled out that jar once or twice!
