My name is Alisha and I am a mother of 2 lovely daughters, Jessica and Brittany. Jessica is 6, and Brittany is 3. I’m also fortunate to have had the opportunity to be a stay-at-home mom for my daughters since Jessica was born, and while she is in grade 1 now I am currently with my younger daughter all day.

As I’m sure many of you can relate, when you are with your child for the entirety of the day you feel like you are very much entirely in control of their safety and well being. There may be the odd moment where they get out of sight and into trouble for a second, but you don’t feel a whole lot of anxiety about them, because for the most part they’re always in your immediate proximity.

And so it was for Jessica for the first 4 years of her life, she and I were never more than a few meters away from each other. When it came time for her to start preschool, I found myself very anxious about her safety. Sure, there wasn’t any real reason for me to be legitimately concerned, but the separation anxiety was undeniable.

Not surprisingly, her first year of preschool went by without incident and I began to calm myself about the fact she was ‘there’ all day while I was ‘here’ with young Brittany. Everything was fine.

Now of course I wouldn’t be writing this post if everything continued to be fine. In October of last year, while Jessica was in Kindergarten, I got a call from the school explaining that she had had an accident.

She had been playing with the other children, and while running at full speed she fell forward and hit her forehead on a table edge. She now had a large cut above her right eye, and they wanted to know if I was able to come to the school to take her to ER, or if not that they would take her there immediately.

I told them I would be there in 20 minutes, and in truth I drove like such a maniac I was probably there in 15. Little Jessica was still crying and the school nurse had attended to her as best she could. She was obviously going to need stitches however, and that was beyond her abilities so we needed to go to the ER.

The drive to the hospital was uneventful, asides from the fact I had a shocked and inconsolable child in pain next to me. Fortunately the bleeding had stemmed, and when we arrived at the ER one of the doctors saw us fairly quickly. It upset me greatly to see how large and deep the cut was, doubled by the fact it was right on her face! So upsetting.

Anyways, some 30 minutes later we were leaving with my daughter having 7 fresh stitches above her right eyebrow. On the drive home my mind inevitably shifted to one singular thought – I don’t want my daughter to have a pronounced scar on her face!

I was determined to do whatever it took to minimize her scar as much as possible. I went online that evening to do research on the subject. I considered a number of ointment products, and decided on a pharmaceutical cream product (won’t name names, no need to discredit any particular product – it didn’t work well for my daughter, maybe it works well for others) that I though work best to reduce the prominence of a scar.

So long story short, (or shorter) – After a month of applying the cream exactly as directed on the packaging, I wasn’t impressed with the way the scar had been reduced. Of course, I didn’t really know what I was comparing it to, but I just genuinely felt it wasn’t working effectively.

Fortunately, I met a woman at a social gathering and somehow the conversation came around to this matter. She said that natural formulation scar reduction creams are often much more effective, and said that her sister had enjoyed great results from a product manufactured by Derma E Canada, it is available for purchase at YesWellness. I visited their website, and ready glowing reviews for their scar gel there and elsewhere on the Internet.

I ordered Derma E scar gel online and once it arrived at my house, I began to apply it twice a day (as was suggested for older scars, which was a part of my concern here – would a scar reduction product still be effective this long after the cut?) To my extremely pleasant surprise, I began to notice the scar was more lightly colored and less rough on the surface, plus it seemed the edges of the scar had contracted somewhat.

I was definitely surprised that the natural formulation was so much more effective, but there’s no debating that is was. When you consider further that these types of products are easier on the body as a whole AND easier on the environment if they go down the drain, I’m going to consider them more prominently in the future.

Anyways, both Jessica AND Brittany have endured more bumps and bruises since, but as we’ve all learned – that’s just what children do! We do our best to keep them safe, but incidents will befall the children of even the most cautious and close-minding parents. Sure, Jessica still has a scar but it is much less pronounced now. And it doesn’t seem to bother her much, so I’m learning to not let these things bother me so much! My daughters are happy and healthy, and in the big picture that’s what’s most important.