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Looking For Toddler Art Adventures?

Toddler Art Adventures!   Toddler Art Adventures! By Genie Fletcher   There’s no doubt about it. Toddlers love messing around with art materials, whipping up wild and wonderful creations to be hung on the refrigerator with great pride. From handprint collages to whimsical valentine cards and fragrant playdough masterpieces, tots dive into art projects with …

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Toddler Dies Five Days After Choking On A Grape In Pizza Hut

A two year old toddler, Jacob Jenkins has died five days after choking on a grape he was eating while at Pizza Hut with his parents.   The toddler was in a coma and had been fighting for his life since Friday evening when he was at the restaurant in Hartlepool. Despite being rushed to hospital, medics were …

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Surgeons Re-attach Toddler’s Head Internally Torn From A Car Crash

Surgeons in Brisbane, Australia, took six hours to reattach the 16-month-old boy’s head to his spine after it was internally torn from his neck in 70-mph crash.

 

A 16-month-old boy, Jaxon Taylor, was riding in a car with his mother and 9-year-old sister last month when they collided with another car in Australia. The force of the impact tore apart Jaxon’s upper vertebrae, a condition called internal decapitation.

 


 

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“The second I pulled him out, I knew that he — I knew that his neck was broken,” Jaxon Taylor’s mother, Rylea Taylor, told 7 News Melbourne.

 

Jaxon was airlifted to a hospital in Brisbane, and ended up in the care of spinal surgeon Geoff Askin. “A lot of children wouldn’t survive that injury in the first place,” Askin said. “And if they did and they were resuscitated they may never move or breathe again.” He will have to wear a neck brace for a couple months to allow the tissues and nerves connecting his head to his spine to heal, according to the channel.

 


 

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But the boy seems to be making a remarkable recovery, kicking a balloon, laughing and hugging his parents. “It is a miracle,” Rylea Taylor said.