Jasmine Roth said her daughter Darla’s first emergency room visit ended with seven stitches after a fall off the couch left the toddler with a head wound and a 1/2-inch indentation where her eyebrow should have been. Roth said she was home alone with both of her daughters when Darla hit the coffee table, and the injury turned an ordinary day into a scramble for help.
The injury was serious enough that Darla was sedated during treatment, but once the sedation wore off, Roth said it was almost as if nothing had happened to her. Roth and her husband, Brett, were able to take Darla home to rest and play, a relief after a day that began with the kind of scare parents do not forget.
Roth shared the update on her Instagram Story, where she described the accident as a rough one and said Hazel was screaming because she was scared too. She said Darla was brave through the procedure and that she felt lucky the fall was not worse. The experience landed as a sharp reminder of how fast a normal moment can turn into an emergency when young children are involved.
There was another worry in the same hospital visit. Roth, who is pregnant with her third child, asked doctors if they could hear the baby’s heartbeat, but they were not able to find it either. She later went to OB Emergency in Salt Lake, where staff immediately found a heartbeat and did a quick ultrasound that showed the baby basically doing gymnastics.
That split response is what gave the day its edge: one hospital could not locate the heartbeat, while the next did so right away. For Roth, the evening ended with Darla home and resting, and the pregnancy reassured by a quick scan that showed the baby active and healthy. What started as one child’s first ER visit became, in the same stretch of hours, a much broader lesson in how fast parents can be pulled between fear and relief.
