In the last six weeks, eleven local children have been taken to hospital with injuries resulting from a fall out of a window.

In all cases, the kids between the ages of two and four, were leaning against the window’s screen.

Last year 12 children fell from a window and prior to that one to three a year would fall.

A nurse at Alberta Children’s Hospital, Sherry MacGilivray says she doesn’t know why the numbers have jumped in the last two years, but says in all cases, the injuries were preventable.

“So many people come in and they are shocked, saying my kid was supposed to be sleeping, well, you know, two year olds get up when they are supposed to be sleeping and look out the window and fall out,” said MacGilivray.

And the injuries can be quite serious.

“They get things like broken limbs, they get lung injures, they can get facial fractures if they land a certain way on their head, they can get abdominal injuries,” MacGilivray added.

She advises parents to move furniture away from windows and to only open the window no more than four inches.