Nobody said parenting is easy - but you never expect it to land you in the emergency room with actual injuries.
A mum claims she was left looking 'like a camel' after her toddler launched her mobile phone at her with such force that it caused her top lip to balloon to triple its size.
Shavon Bryant was playing with two-year-old Brandon Jr. Bryant when he threw her phone toward her and it hit her squarely in her mouth.
Not thinking much of it, the 42-year-old looked in the mirror to check that he hadn't knocked any teeth out and went to bed.
But the following morning, the nursing assistant said her top lip began to balloon so much that her bottom lip became 'completely non-existent'.
Worried about her lumpy lip, she showed shocked colleagues who urged her to get it checked out.
Shavon, who's married to forklift driver Brandon Bryant Senior, took herself to a nearby walk-in centre and explained what had happened.
Staff revealed that the injury was exacerbated by blood pressure medication she was taking and was urged to stop taking it until her lip had deflated.
Shavon shared her grossly swollen pout, that appears to be triple its usual size, on social media.
The post was captioned "I look like a camel" and racked up more than 600 likes, shares and comments.
After temporarily ditching her blood pressure medication and taking prescription medicine, her lip finally returned to normal two days later.
Shavon, from Baltimore, Maryland, US, said: "I thought my two-year-old had knocked my teeth out, that's how hard he threw it.
"He was playing games [on my phone], he likes to play Roblox. When it was time to go to bed his dad had to take the phone off him and he [Brandon Jr] just tossed it.
"At the time it was a bump on the right side of my lip. Even though he was bad, I know he didn't mean it.
"The next day it was like an aching pain. I could feel it swelling, it was getting bigger and bigger, it was horrible.
"An hour into my work day, I saw it getting big and thought 'I've got to go to hospital'.
"My bottom lip was completely non-existent because that's how big my top lip was."
After powering on for a few hours at work wearing a face mask, Shavon's stunned colleagues urged her to get it checked out straight away and she went to Patient First urgent care in Baltimore.
Shavon said: "I remember thinking 'thank god we have to wear masks' because it covered it.
"When I showed it to somebody they said, 'oh my goodness'. It was a shock when I showed them."
Doctors assessed her swollen lip and said it was an allergic reaction to the blood pressure medication she was on.
Shavon said: "I went to the emergency urgent care and they told me it had to be an allergic reaction to the blood pressure medication I take or something I ate.
"But I didn't eat anything out of the ordinary from what I normally do.
"I stopped taking my blood pressure medication, and she wanted me to start it back up once my lip completely goes down."
Now Shavon's lip has returned to normal, she joked that despite trying to keep the phone away from little Brandon, she'll have a hard task on her hands.
Shavon said: "I can't keep the phone away from him, it's inevitable he'll get it."
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