Parenting influencer Kelly Hopton-Jones has admitted to accidentally running over her 23-month-old son with her car.
Hopton-Jones - who is also mom to daughter Lily, three, with husband Brian - took to Instagram to open up about the traumatic incident.
Alongside pictures of son Henry in the hospital, the mom, known online by her blog Hillside Farmhouse, revealed that he had suffered several pelvis fractures.
'Today has been the worst day of our lives. Life can change in the literal blink of an eye.
'It started like any normal day. I was taking Lily to get donuts before her dance performance. Brian was staying home with Henry and was going to meet us there.
'He helped Lily into the car and was waving goodbye between our car and Henry, who was in the garage,' she wrote.
'In a matter of seconds, our son was run over by our car. I was driving,' her statement read. 'Our neighbors stepped in immediately and took Lily and we rushed to the emergency room.
'X-rays of his legs, chest and neck are all normal. CT scan shows no injury to his organs or spinal cord. Neurological exam has been reassuring with no signs of head injury or impairment.
Parenting influencer Kelly Hopton-Jones has admitted to accidentally running over her 23-month-old son with her car.
'He does have fractures to his pelvis that will take time to heal as well as a few abrasions.
'What stays with me the most is the doctor saying: "He is hurt but this is something he can recover from." A true miracle.'
She continued: 'We are in shock. We are sad. But we are so incredibly grateful.
'We keep replaying it, trying to understand how this could have happened when we were right there. I don't have that answer. But I do know this has changed us.'
Hopton-Jones, a pediatric nurse practitioner who has run her blog for years, shared that she would now be enforcing a 'non-negotiable' hand holding policy for her kids around vehicles.
'Even when you are not distracted. Even when you are not rushing. It can still happen in the blink of an eye. We are holding him a little tighter tonight.'
Continuing in the caption, the mom wrote: 'I can't even let my brain fully go to how different this situation could be right now. It's so easy to start questioning everything.
'If the morning had looked different. If B had gone to work like he normally would have, both kids would have been safely in their car seats.'
She questioned: 'Why weren't we holding him? Why didn't I double check before pulling out?
'We could drive ourselves crazy with the what ifs, and honestly, we are a little bit. But accidents happen.
'And I keep coming back to what I would tell my own kids one day if this happened to them.
'It would be a lot kinder than the things we're telling ourselves right now. Accidents happen, and the only mistakes are the ones we don't learn from.
'We're on the lucky side of a very tragic accident.'