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It gets better! I have lost my toe nails a couple of times. I'm really prone to them stopping growing and then having to have a new nail grow in. Recently, however, I had to have one removed because it got super infected and swollen. After it was removed it took about a week to stop being tender. And it was in rough shape due to bleeding/swelling so I bet your daughters will heal more quickly. Now it's ugly but feels fine!

When my DD was 2, she dropped my glass water bottle on her big toe. It was an awful experience that left me feeling absolutely horrible and she lost her nail. She couldn't walk for a couple of days but it took a few weeks for her to actually lose her nail. I just kept it wrapped in bandaids and gauze and she wore socks until the skin looked healed. I was super worried that the nail would grow in funny but it's perfectly fine. It took 6 months for her toe nail to come totally back. Maybe fingernails are faster?

K lost a nail last fall and honestly I had forgotten about it till your post.

She mysteriously wound up with a big bruise under a nail, likely from getting it shut in something but no idea what. She never complained about it, except when dh thought her nail was dirty and tried to wipe it off. Eventually the nail did fall off and grew back normal.

Our story is definitely on the low key end.

My four year old just lost the nail on her big toe. Her pediatrician said to give it 6 months to grow back. I'm just keeping a bandaid on it for now. She tells everyone she meets about it.